Swivelling cameras seemed like a fresh, innovative take on smartphone cameras, with devices like the Oppo N1 and Oppo N3 showing that you shouldn’t need to compromise on selfie quality if your camera is able to face both the front and rear of your device. Despite the obvious benefits, it’s not a feature that many besides Oppo have bothered to invest in (except Polaroid who blatantly copied it) – until now. If a Huawei teaser is to be believed, the Chinese manufacturer could be about to announce a Huawei smartphone with swivelling camera.
Note that the mechanism for swivelling is quite a lot different to the once Oppo used – while Oppo’s camera rotated along its own axis, the Huawei version hinges at the top of the device, meaning it would sit like a normal camera when facing the rear of the device, but be sticking out when used as the front camera. It’s something different, and presumably Huawei wouldn’t have bothered unless somebody was going to buy it – all the same, we’ll be interested to know more about the device as details become available.
UPDATE: So, apparently we’ve been oblivious to a device called the Huawei ShotX that’s been doing the rounds in Europe. False alarm.
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