tzeshan

gatorguy said:

indiekiduk said:

As a developer I find ARCore a poor name. Core is the word Apple use for their frameworks like CoreImage and CoreData and it always comes first because grammatically that makes sense. Stealing it and using it the wrong way round is just embarrassing. 

Google Play, Carplay, Apple Pay, Google Pay... I think we can all understand which is which. As far as putting AR first in front of core it certainly makes sense to me, just as it made sense to Apple. KitAR?  Afterall AR is the important part. 

avon b7 said:

tzeshan said:

The Chinese smartphone makers try to copy every new feature of iPhone in order to justify their "flagship" smartphones are competitive to iPhone. Unfortunately they are falling behind in the last two years. The iPhone 7 Plus introduced dual rear camera which is popular. One the selling points of Chinese smartphone is always they shoot better picture than iPhone. But after more than one year the Android world is still not able to produce a dual camera as good as the iPhone.  The examples are Samsung S8 Edge and Google Pixel 2 Plus. Then last year Apple introduced highly accurate FaceID in iPhone X. Several component makers are trying to create a FaceID compatible kit. It seems the MWC no smartphone has FaceID compatible smartphone to show off. So it seems an Android FaceID is still far off. So without two very important new features in iPhone, the Chinese smartphone makers stopped being able to increase their sales every in the home country. 

The iPhone 7 Plus wasn't the first dual camera phone.

It was the only Apple phone that had dual cameras for a year, though. For a while, one of the big features of that phone (Portrait Mode) was in beta.

A portrait mode equivalent already existed on the phone that had dual cameras before the iPhone 7 Plus.

The manufacturer had a whole family of dual camera phones out before Apple shipped its second dual camera model. I'm not sure what you are referring to by 'better' camera. 

How do these photos look to you?

https://petapixel.com/2016/05/31/review-huawei-p9-phone-camera/

They are from a dual camera phone and months before the first Apple dual camera phone even existed.

'Android FaceID' is not 'far off'. It already exists and was even revealed just weeks after Apple revealed FaceID. The roadmap had it scheduled for Q118 and AFAIK, that is still the plan although the one I'm thinking about won't appear at MWC itself but the following month (and have three cameras FWIW). That doesn't rule out someone else announcing such a feature at MWC though. I can think of two candidates.

avon b7 said:

tzeshan said:

The Chinese smartphone makers try to copy every new feature of iPhone in order to justify their "flagship" smartphones are competitive to iPhone. Unfortunately they are falling behind in the last two years. The iPhone 7 Plus introduced dual rear camera which is popular. One the selling points of Chinese smartphone is always they shoot better picture than iPhone. But after more than one year the Android world is still not able to produce a dual camera as good as the iPhone.  The examples are Samsung S8 Edge and Google Pixel 2 Plus. Then last year Apple introduced highly accurate FaceID in iPhone X. Several component makers are trying to create a FaceID compatible kit. It seems the MWC no smartphone has FaceID compatible smartphone to show off. So it seems an Android FaceID is still far off. So without two very important new features in iPhone, the Chinese smartphone makers stopped being able to increase their sales every in the home country. 

The iPhone 7 Plus wasn't the first dual camera phone.

It was the only Apple phone that had dual cameras for a year, though. For a while, one of the big features of that phone (Portrait Mode) was in beta.

A portrait mode equivalent already existed on the phone that had dual cameras before the iPhone 7 Plus.

The manufacturer had a whole family of dual camera phones out before Apple shipped its second dual camera model. I'm not sure what you are referring to by 'better' camera. 

How do these photos look to you?

https://petapixel.com/2016/05/31/review-huawei-p9-phone-camera/

They are from a dual camera phone and months before the first Apple dual camera phone even existed.

'Android FaceID' is not 'far off'. It already exists and was even revealed just weeks after Apple revealed FaceID. The roadmap had it scheduled for Q118 and AFAIK, that is still the plan although the one I'm thinking about won't appear at MWC itself but the following month (and have three cameras FWIW). That doesn't rule out someone else announcing such a feature at MWC though. I can think of two candidates.