Oppo is including a brand new characteristic to its upcoming Discover X8, with a shutter button that works precisely like Apple’s new “Digicam Management” characteristic on iPhone 16.

In a publish on Weibo, Oppo’s Zhou Yibao shared a video previewing a pressure-sensitive digital camera shutter button, as Android Authority first noticed. The characteristic permits customers to double-tap to open the digital camera after which press the button once more to take a photograph. You possibly can then additionally swipe on the button to zoom in or out.

In fact, it’s not truly a “button,” however fairly a pressure-sensitive strip on the aspect of the system that simply acts like a button.

If that each one sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of it’s nearly an identical to “Digicam Management,” a characteristic Apple launched on the iPhone 16 collection. There, customers simply press as soon as to open the digital camera, however the swipes and talent to make use of the pressure-sensitive space as a shutter button work the identical as Oppo’s implementation. Whereas Oppo is coming to market after Apple, the corporate just isn’t essentially copying Digicam Management as a result of Apple launched it, because the characteristic would have been in improvement for fairly a while earlier than Apple’s announcement.

Oppo additionally does spotlight that this expertise, swipes and all, works even when the telephone is underwater, permitting the digital camera for use if the touchscreen can not.

The Oppo Discover X8 collection is prone to launch as quickly as later this month and arrive globally someday subsequent yr. It’ll additionally probably carry up to date cameras and a brand new design in comparison with the Discover X7 Extremely pictured above.

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