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  • Watch: iPhone X vs. Galaxy S9+ video quality compared

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    It is not surprising that you'd get underexposed and crappy video from very high frame rate, people don't often consider how high speed photography requires much more light to look good. Basically only usable in noon sunlight without an extra lghting right.
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  • Redesigned Apple Watch with larger screen, enhanced battery life and health features due i...

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    Your calculations are way way off. This is a surface yet you increased the dimensions 15% of each sides, and they could change the bezel.

    You can get a bigger screen with just less bezels, so not sure why you get 44 and 48mm, that makes no sense.
    In fact, it's much more probable it will stay the same size with almost no bezel.

    say current size is 1.25 x 1   , if you increase size 5% on each axis, you'd get 1.3175 x 1.05 , thus 10% more surface

    So, even with the same bezel as now, 15% would only be 41mm, 45mm.

    They only need to reduce the bezel 1.5mm to fit that screen in the current 38mm and 42mm format.

    They may get as bigger watch out, but its not probable they'll get rid of the 38mm
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  • Apple likely to be 'all-in or all-out' of self-driving cars within 2 years, analyst argues...

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    They're already all in, the analysts just don't know it yet, they know nothing about anything so that's not surprising.

    The Chinese 1Billion investment in the ride hailing service wasn't just done for kicks, there is something important there that has not been fully used yet.
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  • Consumer Reports pegs Apple's iPhone X & 8 Plus as having best smartphone cameras

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    king editor the grate said:
    I'm editor of a weekly newspaper and have a Nikon Coolpix B500 as work camera. It does great in good lighting, shoots quickly, and has 40x optical zoom. In poor lighting, it's a disaster. I was taking pics of Christmas parade last year and realized it was hopeless, and used 5S to shoot rest of parade. They pics were usable but not stellar. Bought a X and had high hopes. The camera features are fairly astounding, including the optical zoom, but it seems that action shots in poor lighting aren't great; doesn't seem to freeze the action even with flash, and the flash makes things look weird sometimes. I have yet to test it under many conditions, but it has managed to impress and disappoint at the same time. Mayhap I expected more of a leap after advancing five models up the product line.
    Low light action is very hard to get right even with a normal camera. Try taking a picture of children at play indoor in a normally light living room and you'll see the limits of smart phones. That's why most times you get people doing "poses" like selfies for smartphones.

    If you use a zoom on the X in low light and are not on a tripod, there is very litle chance you'll get a useable shot, you get much less light and hand held even with OIS that won't be great.
    A static shot shooting wide will give you the best hope on a smart phone to do night shots.

    Those edge cases are the reason why actual real cameras exists, physics limits what the cameras on those smart phones can do.
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  • How HomePod leverages Apple's silicon expertise to deliver advanced audio performance

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    cpsro said:
    cpsro said:
    Too bad it (re)produces infrasound found in many live audio streams.  Very annoying.
    What does that mean?  
    https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/27/ice-schaaf-warning-of-recent-sweep-was-irresponsible-decision/
    tmay said:
    cpsro said:
    Too bad it (re)produces infrasound found in many live audio streams.  Very annoying.
    Infrasound is below the limits of human hearing, first of all, and almost certainly below the limits of what the HomePod can reproduce.
    Infrasound is below the frequency where you'd hear a "tone," but it's very perceptible as pressure waves hitting the eardrums.  The HomePod is quite capable of producing annoying infrasound--predictable from the high excursion subwoofer it contains--and as evidenced by my personal experience listening to NPR radio on the device. Outdoor venues often have wind noise and in-studio programs sometimes pick up people blowing on the mic as they speak.
    Which is why the studio should be using pop filters on their end. 
    Yes, kinda weird to ask a speaker to filter out some poor recording and mastering boo boo and degrade the sound.

    I create live webinars and vlogs and podcasts for our corp and all of those sounds can be solved during recording (setting levels, putting limiters, installing mikes at the right place, etc), by having the proper equipment, or if that wasn't done, in post (which can be a bitch, but is very doable if you are patient).

    Not sure wth they're using that you pick up wind noises, but anyone who half decent at setting up a live recording should know how to fix this.
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