What in the world is going on with the Oppo Find X5's camera bump?

(Pocket-lint) - Oppo is simply a telephone marque that isn't acrophobic to experiment. Need proof? Just look astatine the camera bump on its adjacent flagship.

OnLeaks, in collaboration with Prepp.in, has published renders of the upcoming Oppo Find X5. (Presumably, Oppo is skipping the X4, arsenic the fig 4 is usually avoided successful China.) It's unclear if the exemplary pictured is simply a modular X5 oregon a pro version, but 1 happening is clear: That camera bump is not your emblematic camera bump. Instead of having a quadrate housing, it's angled, creating a unsocial shape.

The renders besides intelligibly amusement 2 large sensors and a smaller 3rd 1 supra the flash. For reference, the phone's predecessor, the Find X3, had 3 ample sensors and 1 tiny one. That means the Find X5 appears to beryllium ditching a camera sensor, perchance the microscope lens.

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Aside from the odd-shaped camera module, the telephone looks precise akin to the Find X3. The show and wide plan are each precise familiar. 

The Find X5 is expected to diagnostic a 6.78-inch 120Hz display, 8GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of storage. Currently, it's besides thought to tally connected a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset. However, each the models successful the Find X3 bid sported Snapdragon chips. So, 1 would presume the Find X5 Pro to motorboat with a Snapdragon chipset (likely the 8 Gen 1), but this latest study suggests otherwise.

The Oppo Find X5 volition perchance beryllium announced aboriginal adjacent year, successful March. Stay tuned to Pocket-lint for the latest updates connected the caller series.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 30 December 2021.