Oppo Phone Brings Back the 10X Zoom

Recently Oppo held an event just ahead of MWC to talk more about its upcoming 10x “lossless” camera zoom technology. This will still be enabled by a triple-camera module, but now we know that from top to bottom, it’ll start with a 48-megapixel high-resolution main camera, followed by a 120-degree ultra-wide camera and a stealthy periscopic telephoto camera. Together, these cameras cover a range of 16 mm to 160 mm, hence the 10x zoom rating.Both the main camera and the telephoto camera come with optical image stabilization, and the latter has a stabilization accuracy of up to 0.001445 degrees – apparently a 73-percent improvement over its 5x zoom counterpart. Oppo has also managed to keep this triple-camera module to just 6.76 mm thick, while also limiting its volume by packaging the auto focus motors for the top two cameras into one space.At the same event, Oppo also briefly showed off its upcoming 5G smartphone – powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipset – on stage, and added that it will be collaborating with Swisscom, Telstra, Optus and SingTel on pushing out 5G services. Oppo’s first 5G smartphone in the market will be released soon, and the company did share that its 10x zoom camera phone will be launching in Q2 this year.