The Galaxy Note 10 Secret Selfie Camera

Now it's not often that I shout out these concept style videos but this one got in front of me

I was like you know what there's some cool ideas in here that I would like to amplify

I don't know if these ideas are possible. I don't know if they're in development

I think this is just strictly a concept delivered by DBS Design and it's a concept for the upcoming

Galaxy Note 10, but this has some really cool and creative ideas that could possibly be implemented

in a device like the Note 10. Now, as you can see in this video right here, it's got a crazy camera

layout on the back, four cameras. I don't think we'll see that on the upcoming Note 10. It's probably

going to be a triple camera setup similar to the S10 series. But then again, you have devices like

the recent Huawei P30, that's a four camera set up on the back of quad camera array

But this is more wishful thinking, this is dreaming. This is like the concept of the ultimate phone

bezel-less, screen to body ratio, big battery powerhouse. That's what people are thinking

when they thinking about the Note series and in particular the next generation of it So keep the clip rolling here We going to get to the good part that really caught my attention and I think it also catch yours

So obviously, it's going to have to have wireless charging if it's a Galaxy device in the modern era in 2019

So this one showcases a similar feature. Now this is the part that caught my attention

This is the reason I'm sharing this particular video, because we'll just pause it there for a minute

We talked so much, so many times, about this idea of shrinking the bezel, getting rid of notches, getting as much display as possible onto the slab that is your smartphone

Now on the S10, S10 Plus, we saw this hole punch design for the very first time, pushing the necessary cutout over into the corner of the screen

I think it has a big part to play in the popularity of that particular device, taking a different approach to that front facing camera

But what if you could implement something like this particular concept? In this case, you have the selfie camera built into the S Pen

So you just pop that open and you have a selfie camera

Now on this particular render this concept it actually has two lenses on it as well Possibly a wide angle and a portrait lens But imagine if not only you got this front camera completely hidden in the silo where the pen goes

but what if it also functioned as a standalone camera with wireless transmission to the main device while being held on its own

Now, obviously, that's a very difficult thing to achieve from a technical standpoint

The S Pen is this tiny little device. Can you even fit a sensor in there

Well, that's of course up to the engineers to try to achieve. But that's the beauty of a concept. You could just ask for it

You could just put it out into the universe. You can dream a little bit. And so that's what's happened here via DBS Design

Put the selfie camera into the S Pen. What does that do for you

Well, you could have a remote shutter release right on the pen to take the image

You can also hide it away so you're not constantly staring at the lens in the form of a notch

or even a hole punch. The front of the display now gets completely opened up just for screen

And if you're a person like me who doesn't use the front facing camera that frequently

not such a big deal. Now I could see this being an issue for things like face unlock If you a big fan of face unlock are you really going to pop the pen every time you want to unlock it Definitely not Now as cool as this is it seems just maybe too

ambitious for a realistic product in 2019. I like to see the boundaries pushed but I just feel like

implementing this thing at this moment right now with the limitations of Bluetooth information

transmission you would need a wireless feed of the preview image that would have to be seamless

it's probably not going to happen but a cool idea nonetheless and i thought something worth sharing

so i got to give a shout out dbs design giving you a kind of peek at what could be in smartphones

maybe not on the next generation but maybe at some point in the future assuming the note series

sticks around and the pen specifically but just check that out if you could get this level of

screen to body ratio you could have the best of both worlds because now the device that was

originally gigantic the note series i mean it still would be big but definitely more pocketable

because now you're getting the screen dimension you're looking for in a much smaller form factor

no cutout no hole punch no notch that's a cool concept