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For Xenon flash, it is achievable. But it needs way stronger power supply than LED, so we must re-design the PCB to some point.

The question is if it is worth the time and effort, and if the majority happy to wait and pay more.

Our main difference is having a slider keyboard inside the device, because of that our work and device complexity is much much more than a normal phone. We need to position the sliding frame correctly, need to have quite some additional FPCs, need to implement additional sensors for keyboard, need back lit, need to control thickness etc. All those efforts are not easy to achieve, and will make the device expensive. (And again we are a small team, we don't have so much resources on engineering and we are doing something big companies don't bother to do because of complexity.)

So in theory adding Xenon flash it is possible. But we are based on a slider phone it's not the same amount of work as a normal phone. It's all come into the same question about timeine/money in the end.

PS: LED can be used as torch but Xenon can't.
 

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