# @wealthinsides on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-09-05T14:30:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WEALTH INSIDES™ (@wealthinsides) — https://gondola.cc/wealthinsides

## Caption

Remember pop-up selfie cameras? 📱🤯

For a short time, they looked like the future of smartphones.

Instead of having a notch or punch-hole cutting into the display, the selfie camera would physically rise out of the phone whenever you opened the front camera.

It looked futuristic.

No notch.

No hole.

Just a huge, uninterrupted screen. 🔥

Phones like the OnePlus 7 Pro, Vivo NEX and Xiaomi Mi 9T made the concept incredibly popular.

But there was one major problem:

Moving parts.

Every time you took a selfie, a tiny motor had to lift the camera module.

Then lower it again.

And repeat that process hundreds or thousands of times.

That added mechanical complexity to something that was supposed to be a simple, durable device.

There was also the durability problem.

A normal smartphone camera is protected inside the body.

A pop-up camera physically sticks out of the phone, making it more vulnerable to drops, dust and accidental damage.

And because the mechanism needed space, it also took up valuable room inside the phone — space manufacturers could use for larger batteries, better cameras, cooling and other components.

Water resistance was another challenge.

Creating a strong seal around a moving camera mechanism is much harder than protecting a completely sealed phone.

Then smartphone makers found a much simpler solution.

Make the camera smaller.

Punch-hole displays became increasingly common, and manufacturers managed to make the camera cutout tiny enough that most people barely noticed it.

Under-display cameras also began appearing, giving manufacturers another way to hide the selfie camera.

So the pop-up camera wasn't really a failure.
It was actually a clever solution to the full-screen display problem.

But once manufacturers found ways to get nearly the same result without a motorized mechanism, the pop-up camera simply stopped making sense.

Media: Vivo

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