Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
The price isn't bad, and it has an extra gig of RAM which should mean if side steps the Nexus 5X issues.
That being said its still stupid.
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The price isn't bad, and it has an extra gig of RAM which should mean if side steps the Nexus 5X issues.
That being said its still stupid.
Unknown Soldier
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Profit share of smartphone market:
Why is my Apple stock going down goddamn
Profit share of smartphone market:
Microsoft is the biggest loser confirmed. Makes sense that they're going all in on 1) Android royalties and 2) preinstalling their Office 365 apps on every major OEM distro.
TheAbsolution
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Hey guys, Looking at getting the LG V10. Thoughts? Is the battery life any good?
No, I can't afford a Nexus 6P outright. Otherwise, I would've gotten that.
LostMyNarbles
Member
If you're going on contract why not just wait until the G5/S7 are unveiled in a week?
Oh man, my glorious red Z3C almost died on me in the humid weather of Florida, thankfully it seems to be back to normal now.
I hope that thing lasts me a couple more years, it's goddamn fabulous.
RoadHazard
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Great news. because hopefully midrangers are all we will need in the future. No more +600 smartphones.
iphone camera has faults too.
You were the one that said that iphone destroyed samsung's in low light. Most high end phones cameras perform about the same, some better here and worse there, and it seems than overall, iphone camera is not the best anymore. Not even the one in the most recent iphone could beat the almost 8 month old s6 camera.
This is not gingerbread era anymore.
Capable cameras now need to expand to midrange phones, since all are good enough on high end devices. And unless someone adds a huge sensor,or some new tech, things will be more or less the same. May have better, faster software but raw pictures will be what the sensor allows. Even adding dual cameras, won't have a huge impact. Maybe for bokeh, hdr.. but i doubt we will
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Apple to get dslr results shortly. This debate will soon be moot. Two lenses and a beast processor. I don't think people understand how incredible Apple is at photography development. For example, True Tone Flash. There are photographers who spend thousands of dollars on flash and lighting equipment alone to achieve what that can do. It combined both a cool white and warm amber LED and, in real time analyzes the color of the surrounding and fires the flash to suit, thus giving you the best possible flash for that environment (over 1000 possible color variations). No other flash in any camera ever produced what that did.
Controlling the hardware and software stack leads to huge photography developments like that. Just wait, my children.
Controlling the hardware and software stack leads to huge photography developments like that. Just wait, my children.
sure. All professional photographers will ditch their expensive dslrs and lenses and use an iphone 7 instead. In fact all hollywood movies will be recorded on iphones too next year.
I also expect iphones to be used by NASA on the next Mars explorer.
brotkasten
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MicroUSB is pretty much confirmed at this point.
Given how expensive Apple gear is that's hardly a surprise.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Is that what I said?
dslr results shortly. You said that. You know what a dslr is don't you?
I mean, there's a reason why those exist and are huge and are huge because of sensors.... But hey i may eat crow and apple will bring us tech from the future because they have best engineers in the world .
If two lenses and fast processing was enough that would have already been included in photo gear. Sony and others already use custom processing (bionz and similar processors) to help.
And i am not saying two lenses will not improve something. Sony has that tech in the pipeline so it will probably have some benefits. But Dslr? Lol
The rest was my fault if you wish. Just joking. Really some of you believe Apple are just semi gods or something. Sure they are good , but c'mon.
This is not, and will not ever be, anything like "DSLR" results.
Apple are making admirable movement in compact and mobile photography, but they are not yet able to disrupt physics.
Jigolo
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lol the guy probably never used a dslr. but hey cameras from the past year might be better than the d70 but id have to check
maybe the recent Gravitational Waves thing was an apple discovery and may head to iphone7
Who knows.
Nice.
Awesome, thanks. I will just stick with Amazon store for now. Do not need to void it. Can you explain the Free Time feature to me? I also know it is free for a year ... how much after that year?
Edit: When they announce the S7, will they announce the S7 Edge +? I want the bigger screen.
Wait, are you guys saying Apple won't have the tech to make it possible to make movies lit by moonlight?
It's not fair for cameras that can't do full sensor readout fast enough for movies, but for those that can I find videos to be a great way of gauging low light performance because you can't use shutter speeds slower than 1/30 and noise is much harder to hide when it's moving all over the frame. As impressive as those A7s videos are you can still see a lot of softness and noise moving all over the frame as the NR tries to suppress it.
I don't have a big library of shots taken by older cameras, but even 10+ year old digital cameras can take much sharper photos than any iPhone or comparable smartphone in good light. Obviously not counting the very old with less than 6 megapixels, bright hot spots or sensors smaller than APS-C.
Modern smartphones still need to employ a ton of noise reduction, even in daylight photos which kills fine detail. Compare the iPhone 6s and Canon 5D (2005 DSLR). In the 6s shot the sky is very noisy, especially the darker clouds. There's still some noise in the 5D sky (top left corner), but it's much, much better. The roof tiles on the 6s show that typical "NR then sharpen" algorithm where some are blurred out and those that weren't are overemphasized and look really out of place. The tiles on the right are almost indistinguishable and look like mush. While there is some detail on the left, if you follow the lines traced by the roof tiles you'll see a bunch of gaps from where the sharpening didn't get enough detail. In the 5D shot the bricks on the bridge just look like bricks.
If you look at the grass in the iPhone it looks like a watercolor painting. Compare that to this 5D shot where there's actually some detail to it, even in the shadows.
just like microUSB.
The Faceless Master
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that was sarcasm.
crazy monkey
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forget DSLR. I would love it if website compared their phone reviews with point and shoot camera.
for example when reviewing s7 or iphone 7 or g5 they would also have Sony rx100, nex 5t and/ or some other camera that are 500$ or less. This way you can see if there is any difference.
DSLR do not need to worry about dying just yet but I would love to see comparison between point and shoot and smart phones.
Does the website that does it exists? I want the picture of same objects taken at the same time comparison.
for example when reviewing s7 or iphone 7 or g5 they would also have Sony rx100, nex 5t and/ or some other camera that are 500$ or less. This way you can see if there is any difference.
DSLR do not need to worry about dying just yet but I would love to see comparison between point and shoot and smart phones.
Does the website that does it exists? I want the picture of same objects taken at the same time comparison.
Here's all the phones that currently run Marshmallow officially. Might be missing one or two but there's not many of them:
Nexus 5 / 6 / 5x / 6p
HTC One A9
Moto X Pure / Play
Unlocked LG G4
Jazzy Network
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Unlocked M8 and M9 also run Marsh.
I'm partial to Type C. After owning a phone with it, I already have some cables laying around. Also, It's better in almost every way.
And I hope I get Marshmallow in my OP2, they've still got 1 and a half months until the end of Q1, but we already know how the company operates.
Apple and any other manufacturer will never get DLSR results unless they figure out how to magically break physics. I mean the suggestion is beyond absurd.
DPreview. While their website isn't set up to directly compare between phones and cameras you could still download the pictures, open two browser windows side-by-side or something similar e.g iPhone 6s+ and Sony rxr1 II
Thanks
Enter the Dragon Punch
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fuck i don't know what to get from dbrand
The GS6/edge MM rollout started today so you can add them to the list.
Galaxy S6
Jazzy Network
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What if I wanna take pictures of yo gurl?
Jigolo
Member
Glad you realized how dumb your statement was
Oh snap!
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Nobody was bitching a ton about the cable anyways.
People weren't like I need a new way to charge my phone. People are like I wish my phone battery didn't blow ass so I always have to find my fucking charger.
nature boy
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Micro-usb vs Type C is SO first world problem.
And yes Type C is a mess right now.
And yes Type C is a mess right now.
True. Also supposedly Samsung will start pushing Marshmallow to unlocked current gen flaships this week.
Lol didn't this update come out back in November'ish?
October 5th.
For me the biggest issue isn't so much how long OEMs take to update their phones. It's how quickly they abandon them.
If your phone was released in 2014 there's a good chance it'll never run Marshmallow officially.
I'm not expecting iOS levels of support, but at least provide 18 months of updates for your $500+ flagship.
BoboBrazil
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Less than a week until that S7 Edge reveal. Supposedly preorders start on the 22nd. Hoping T-Mobile has some kind of crazy special on it like they did with the Iphones.
Gavin Robertson
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Each Fire Tablet comes with a year of Free Time, it's a huge library of apps, videos, and books for kids, a significant amount of them featuring characters kids love like Dora the Explorer, Caillou, Curious George and Toca. This is regardless of your Prime subscription.
Depending on the age of your kids, it's an absolute Godsend. With my five year old, I know I can lock the tablet down via parental controls then let her go nuts with the Free Time, downloading apps and videos to her heart's content, and it doesn't cost me a penny. The apps in Free Time are all ad and link free too, as far as I've seen, so no worries about your kid clicking something shiny and suddenly they are outside the walled garden.
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