This awkward moment when the first ZTE Axon 20 5G sub-screen camera turned out to be worse than ever

In September last year, ZTE introduced the Axon 20 5G smartphone, which became the world's first gadget

with an under-screen front camera. But how does such a camera take pictures? DxOMark specialists finally got to the smartphone and assessed the capabilities of such a camera.

Spoiler alert: everything is bad

It seems that the technology is still crude, because it removesThe sub-screen front camera is very bad. As a result of testing, only two advantages were found for it - generally stable exposure of photographs and stable focus.

But there are more than enough minuses.These are visible shades of color and color shades; unnatural skin tones; strong noise in photographs and videos; limited dynamic range of photos and videos; artifacts of hue shift, glare and color fringing in photographs; frequent errors in assessing the depth of a portrait; low detail in portrait mode; strong optical ghosting in video; shading and color quantization in video; ineffective stabilization, residual movement in a stationary state; low-light video encoding artifacts.

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As a result, the ZTE Axon 20 5G has only 26 points, while most modern smartphones have about 100 points or higher.

In the overall DxOMark rating this is second place, but from the bottom. Fortunately, there is a worse model - Intex Aqua Selfie with 22 points.

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