Oppo has announced a smartphone camera module with 10x optical zoom. The module consists of an ultra-wide angle lens, a 48-megapixel camera and a telephoto lens. Furthermore, the Chinese company announces its first 5G phone.
The focal length of the 120-degree ultra-wide angle lens is 16mm and that of the telephoto lens is 160mm. Normally, according to Oppo, this would mean that the camera module would be 15mm thick. To counter this, the Chinese company has turned it into a periscope construction. The lens construction ‘lies’ in the phone, instead of ‘standing’. With a prism, the incoming light is directed around an angle and reaches the lenses. This module is 6.76mm thick.
To maintain sharpness, the telephoto lens and the primary 48-megapixel camera both have optical image stabilization on board. The smartphone maker states that the image stabilization is 73 percent better than with the prototypes of its 5x optical zoom prototypes, which have never appeared on the market.
Oppo has not mentioned a specific device in which the camera module will appear, but does state that it will be in an Oppo phone that will be released in the second quarter of this year. The company is making the announcement at a press conference as part of the Mobile World Congress, which is imminent at the time of writing.
The moment of announcement of the camera module
Furthermore, Oppo has announced its first 5G smartphone. Very little has been published about this. What has been reported is that it uses a Snapdragon 855 chipset. It achieves peak speeds of 5Gbit/s on 5g, but does not support all the main frequency bands that will be used worldwide for 5g. The successor to this modem, the Qualcomm X55, does. There is no known release date for this 5G smartphone from Oppo, but given that the successor to this chipset should hit the market by the end of the year, it is somewhat likely that this phone will be on the shelves at least before that time.