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A new OPPO patent shows a smartphone with a circular rear camera system that also houses a small secondary display to show the time and date.
As you can see from the patent images, the OPPO phone has a large circular camera module that can house multiple camera sensors. Right in the middle of this camera module is a small circular display that can display the time and date. There could be other use cases as well such as a viewfinder for capturing selfies using the rear camera system. This could also eliminate the need for a selfie camera, which is why we don't see any mention of a front camera in this design.
Everything else about the OPPO phone looks pretty familiar, including the curved display at the front, the Type-C port, speaker grille, and SIM tray at the bottom. As mentioned earlier, there is no saying whether OPPO plans to launch this phone commercially in the future, but it does look like an elegant solution for a secondary display. We may see this phone launch in the future as part of OPPO's futuristic Find series, but only time will tell.