Please, Android phone makers, give us better cameras, not gimmicks

At this year’s CES, OnePlus demoed an ‘invisible camera’, which uses electrochromic glass to create various tints in colour to make the camera under the rear glass seem like it’s not there until it’s called into action. It takes its inspiration from the McClaren 720S Spider supercar, and it generated lots of media coverage and undoubtedly long lines at OnePlus’s booth.

Granted it’s a concept of a prototype that’s probably not shipping for many months (if at all), but it shows how most smartphone makers are thinking. Instead of working to make our phones take better pictures, companies