Rising; Pop-up, Shark Fin; Flip

Do not get confused by these fancy sounding words, they are mere trends that have come into being in smartphones, to be more precise, into camera department. These latest innovations have peeped into smartphones to make them look different and unique. There’s no denying that these innovations have overcome the challenges of design to finally make it to the original selling models. We stroll down these new design concepts to look if they do actually make sense.

- Haider Ali Khan

Design Challenge

In order to provide a differentiating viewing experience, mobile manufacturers have incorporated these changes to make the smartphones look huge and endless, what we know it as infinity. The new camera trends have given an opportunity to the Research and Development teams as well to play with rather monotonous mobile designs. The online era has given this opportunity to a mobile user where he or she consumes most of the content on to their phones and to make it a pleasurable experience of something like cinematic effect displays have become more saturated, mature and big. The camera placement has been a key to this technological shift. The bezels have reduced to minimal, the selfie camera module has become motorized and slider, placed inside the body of the phones, giving an opportunity for mobile makers to experiment more with design.

Acceptability