Oppo phone with 10x lossless zoom at MWC

barcelona — Chinese smartphone maker Oppo says it will launch a phone with 10-times lossless zoom technology in the second quarter of 2019.

The phone will have a triple-lens camera structure including a 48MP main camera, 120-degree ultrawide lens and telephoto lens, the company announced at its Innovation Event here on the eve of the Mobile World

Congress in Barcelona.

“With all the three lenses we can cover broad focal lengths of

16 mm-160 mm which make up our 10-times lossless zoom,” said

Chuck Wang, product manager at Oppo.

“How did we fit it in a smartphone? We developed a periscopic module that is structured in a horizontal organisation. This reduces the thickness of the lens, resulting in a camera module only 6.76 mm thick,” he said.

The phone will have optical image stabilisation features on both the main camera and telephoto lens so that images become less blurry. “Our 10-times lossless zoom is mass-production-ready and will appear in a product soon,” Wang added.

Oppo also showcased at the event its first smartphone that is designed to work in a 5G network.

Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor and paired with the chipmaker’s AX50 5G modem, the Oppo 5G phone is likely to be launched this year, said Henry Tang, director of standards and head of the Oppo Standards Research Centre. —