Oppo is including a brand new function to its upcoming Discover X8, with a shutter button that works precisely like Apple’s new “Digital camera Management” function on iPhone 16.
In a put up on Weibo, Oppo’s Zhou Yibao shared a video previewing a pressure-sensitive digicam shutter button, as Android Authority first noticed. The function permits customers to double-tap to open the digicam after which press the button once more to take a photograph. You’ll be able to then additionally swipe on the button to zoom in or out.
After all, it’s not truly a “button,” however relatively a pressure-sensitive strip on the facet of the machine that simply acts like a button.
If that every one sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of it’s nearly an identical to “Digital camera Management,” a function Apple launched on the iPhone 16 sequence. There, customers simply press as soon as to open the digicam, however the swipes and skill to make use of the pressure-sensitive space as a shutter button work the identical as Oppo’s implementation. Whereas Oppo is coming to market after Apple, the corporate isn’t essentially copying Digital camera Management as a result of Apple launched it, because the function would have been in improvement for fairly a while earlier than Apple’s announcement.
Oppo additionally does spotlight that this expertise, swipes and all, works even when the cellphone is underwater, permitting the digicam for use if the touchscreen can’t.
The Oppo Discover X8 sequence is prone to launch as quickly as later this month and arrive globally someday subsequent yr. It’ll additionally probably deliver up to date cameras and a brand new design in comparison with the Discover X7 Extremely pictured above.
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