Vivo continues to experiment with new camera designs for its mobile phones. One of the latter seems to continue advancing adequately. It is a detachable camera from the terminal itself. This, which can be something that shocks at first, could be interesting in the face of greater freedom due to its possibilities of remote use.
An Insta Go on mobile
If Vivo cannot be denied something, it is being one of the mobile phone manufacturers that is most innovating in the design section. And we are not referring to aesthetics but to the integration of various components of it.
You have to be aware that you can have many and varied ideas, but not all of them will end up being good ideas. Although that cannot detract from the merit of trying to provide new options that also help to inspire other mobile phone manufacturers.
One of the brand's latest ideas that did come to fruition was the Vivo X50 Pro gimbal camera. In a very small space they managed to fit a stabilizer like the one you could use independently using an Osmo Mobile or similar.
That one was successful and carried out, but they've also had many other prototypes that either didn't or are still working on. For example, the telescopic camera that, like a matroska doll, combined different lenses to offer a multiple zoom from the use of a single sensor.
Well, now a new patent of detachable mobile camera. That is, Vivo is designing a main camera system for a possible future smartphone that could be removed and used in different ways.
The first of them is so as rear and front camera. Depending on the orientation, you could take advantage of it for one thing or another. It would be something similar to those folding camera modules that we have already seen. The only difference is that you would have to pull it out and turn it manually.
The second way would be like remote camera. That is, in the same way as the new Insta Go or as if it were a GoPro, by removing it from the mobile phone you could place the camera where you want and control it through your phone. This plus the possibility of placing it in different positions that its hinge would give would be very interesting. For example, for use the mobile camera as a webcam.
A complicated patent, but with a future
Patents are often just that, patents. That is, the registration of an idea that you do not want to be stolen in case at some point it was possible to carry out satisfactorily or adapting that initial idea to a more efficient one.
Therefore, this Vivo patent does not imply that the detachable smartphone pop-up camera It will end up becoming a reality, but it is true that it is an idea with a future. Because it would simply be further miniaturizing something like what we already see with the Insta Go.
The main handicap would be offering adequate autonomy when used in this way. Because it not only has to power the sensor, but also the wireless communication module to be able to send the images without delay to the phone. But if all goes well, we could see something like this before long.
And maybe not just from Vivo, because Samsung seems to have been playing with that idea as well. The difference is that the Korean manufacturer would introduce that camera on the S-Pen.