Xiaomi Patents Full-screen Smartphone With Integrated Solar Panel

Aug. 5, 2019

As can be seen from the design below, the phone lacks any obvious housing for a selfie camera (either within a notch or a pop-mechanism), suggesting that Xiaomi might have plans to use its under-screen selfie camera, something that the company demoed a few weeks ago. It also doesn’t have a physical fingerprint scanner on the back, which means it might feature an in-display fingerprint scanner, which is increasingly more common this year.Image Courtesy: Xiaomi / WIPO (via Let’s Go Digital)

Meant for developing countries where power outages are regular occurrences, the feature phones needed to be charged for an hour for just 5-10 minutes of talk-time, which is why they never became popular among mainstream consumers. It will be interesting to see if the technology has improved enough in the intervening decade to make such devices lucrative among consumers this time around.

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