OnePlus Concept One
The brand’s first Concept Phone, the aptly named OnePlus Concept One was the first special edition device from the company that you could not purchase. It was showcased at CES 2019. The Concept One portrayed the possibilities of the future of smartphones. Collaborating with McLaren once more, the brand developed the magically vanishing rear camera setup.
This was made possible due to the special electrochromic glass used on top of the camera setup. This glass, which came straight from the tech McLaren used in its sunroofs, was brought to a slim avatar to make it usable on the back of a phone. This allowed a user to control the opacity of the glass layer covering the setup. When the camera was not in use, the layer would go from completely transparent to near opaque in 0.7 seconds, making the triple-camera setup and the flash ‘vanish’.