Oppo is including a brand new function to its upcoming Discover X8, with a shutter button that works precisely like Apple’s new “Digicam Management” function on iPhone 16.
In a publish 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 may then additionally swipe on the button to zoom in or out.
In fact, it’s not really a “button,” however reasonably a pressure-sensitive strip on the facet of the gadget that simply acts like a button.
If that every one sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of it’s nearly an identical to “Digicam Management,” a function Apple launched on the iPhone 16 collection. 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 is just not essentially copying Digicam 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 collection is prone to launch as quickly as later this month and arrive globally someday subsequent yr. It’ll additionally doubtless deliver up to date cameras and a brand new design in comparison with the Discover X7 Extremely pictured above.
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