CES 2020: OnePlus Concept One First Look | Gizmodo
CES 2020: OnePlus Concept One First Look | Gizmodo

Over the last few years, phone makers have been putting two, three, or even five or more cameras on the backs of phones, to the point that it’s giving some people trypophobia.

But with the Concept One, OnePlus is trying to ease that camera anxiety while also flexing some of its design chops.For the Concept One, OnePlus is once again borrowing inspiration from the car world and its previous collaborations with McLaren.

However this time, instead of going with carbon fiber, OnePlus is being a bit more ambitious by trying to adapt electrochromic glass (or EC glass for short) for use on smartphones.On the $300,000 720s, McLaren uses EC glass to tint the glass in its sunroof to prevent your dome from getting toasty.

The way it works is that by passing an electrical current through the glass, it’s possible for EC glass to go from transparent to almost totally opaque or anything in between.The problem for OnePlus is that car glass is thick, and moreover, the time it takes for the 720s’ sunroof to go from clear to tinted doesn’t happen very fast, so before even putting EC glass on the Concept One, OnePlus had to dramatically improve both of those metrics.

And after what OnePlus claims was months or research and development, it has created what it believes to be the world’s thinnest and fastest EC glass, which measures in at just 0.35mm thick and features a transition time of just 0.7 seconds.

So basically, in the same time it takes for a phone to open its camera app, the EC glass on the back of the Concept One can go from black to clear so you can snap pictures normally.This allows OnePlus to hide the phone’s triple rear cams behind tinted glass during normal use, making it appear as if they aren’t there at all.

Though in strong light or with the help of some well-placed glare, it’s still possible to see dark spots behind the Concept One’s tinted glass.

Even so, it’s a neat effect that could help combat the obnoxiously large camera modules we’ve been seeing on a growing number of phones like the iPhone 11 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and others.- Sam Rutherford#CES2020Read more:https://gizmodo.com/onepluss-boldest-move-is-focusing-more-on-design-than-t-1840845787We come from the future.

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