ZTE announces the world’s first phone with a behind-the-screen camera

Innovation is going in the wrong direction. I'd love if smartphone providers were building cameras with fancier camera covers, that the user could control. The last thing I want is a camera behind the screen that I can't even see.

And yes, I know that some have suggested that this will fix the uncanny valley effect during video calls by allowing viewers to look directly at each other rather than upwards, towards a camera. This will not fix it. There are other things causing this effect, such as latency, lighting, lack of a view of full body posture, etc.

I don’t really understand how the camera could work well when you have a row of light emitters placed right in front of a row of light sensors. Seems like any microabrasion or dust or smudge of grease on the area of the lens will cause significant aberration, unless they simply cut off the leds in the area around the lens while in use. It should have a similar effect to trying to take a picture of snow falling at night with a flash: all you see is the brightly illuminated noise up front