OnePlus Concept One phone: We're not sure who this disappearing camera is for – CNET, Cnet.com

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The OnePlus Concept One’s product manager, Xi Zeng, also emphasized during the presser how this feature embodies “beauty in the unseen” and the company “burdenless philosophy.” As morephonesadd more cameras, we’ll reach a point where we’d want to obscure them.

I’d understand this if OnePlus showed off the feature on an all-black phone . But the company demonstrated it on last yearOnePlus 7T Pro(a with a loud orange design (branded “papaya orange”) that looks like it’s wearing a laceless corset. This may not be the final look of the phone once it’s released, but all that leather and orange and stitching and extra lines OnePlus highlighted weren’t exactly minimalistic.

OnePlus worked on the phone for 18 months and got the ideathrough its partnership with supercar company McLaren. You can see this kind of opaque-transforming glass, known as electrochromic glass, in the sunroofs of luxury cars like those made by McLaren, but it’s also in office windows and fancy club bathroom mirrors. I myself have seen it in those environments … on TV.

The phone kind of reminded me of those ridiculous, leather-clad ($ 5,**************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 Vertu luxury phones, except slightly better looking. And since OnePlus’ device will be more expensive than its regular phones given all the R&D and materials that went into it, it’s a wonder who exactly this phone is for other than rich, diehard McLaren fans. As for specific details, the company did announce pricing or availability.

OnePlus is continuing to explore different applications of electrochromic glass, so Maybe in the near future we’ll see a OnePlus phone that can change the transparency of its whole back (in case you wanted to look at your battery once in a while?). For now, the Concept One isn’t as ambitious and far-reaching as concept phones go, but it still marks the company first CES announcement and offers an early glimpse of where OnePlus is heading.

What do you all think? Is it nuts that I’m not absolutely jazzed about this? Would you buy this yourself? Let me know in the comments.

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