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Chinese discount phone makers were supposed to rival Apple's iPhone globally. Instead, the...
The problem with "preferring" is that if the picture is does not come out neutral with the largest dynamic range, your option in correcting it back, if its even possible (possibly not if the actual white point was not recorded anywhere and there is no white in the scene.cornchip said:
Only a few short paragraphs from a comparison with an iPhone 6?!?!avon b7 said:
The iPhone 7 Plus wasn't the first dual camera phone.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.
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."In terms of image quality, the Huawei P9 delivers images that have a touch too much contrast and saturation for my taste. They look like the work of someone who just discovered the use of curves in Photoshop.
Coupled with the rather noticeable noise reduction and a bit of smearing, it lends the images a digital look. Compared side-by-side with Apple, the iPhone 6 images look slightly washed out (note: the current iPhone 6S has improved contrast and resolution over the 6), but they look more natural than the P9 photos. Some people will prefer the P9’s punchier delivery though, so it’s a matter of taste.
The Huawei P9 also has a tendency to veer on the warmer side in terms of colour balance. Although it sometimes helps to bring a more pleasant rendition to the scene, I prefer a more accurate white balance."
..... Yyyyeeeaaah.
Same thing with too much contrast, saturation, sharpening, etc. Some of those may be correctable to actual shooting conditions, most are not. To avoid that, someone could just shoot raw and it is there that's you'd actually see the performance of the camera before the "prettying".
That's why filmmakers shoot flat / neutral and with log format and do grading afterward. You want to capture as much of the variation in light and color as possible and not crush it either way.
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Apple to move Chinese iCloud keys to China servers, opens door to government data requests...
The one were the Chinese users and Apple have to follow Chinese laws, unless Apple becomes a foreign power, there is nothing else to do here.optik said:I think we’re going to enter the spin zone.
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And yes, in the US, the government can ask the same, that's why Apple is trying to move away from actually owning those encryption keys even for Icloud storage although they do have to "know" some of the metadata cause well, Apple knows who you are obviously. So, they could match a origin apple ID with a destination one and yet not know or be able to retrieve the content of the message.
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'iBoot' leak may stem from low-level Apple engineer with ties to jailbreaking community
Low level here obviously means kernel, drivers, firmware , whatever... Has nothing to do with clearance.maestro64 said:lkrupp said:Well, my first question would be how could a “low-level” employee have clearance to access source code, the keys to the kingdom?
Yeah that is the Billion $ questions, usually source code access is control to what subsystems you work on, only upper level people would have full access to all the code and code branches. There is more to this store which is not being told.
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How to download old versions of apps from the App Store on an older iPhone or iPad that ca...
Or its a 32 bit app and that's why you are not seeing it. IOS 11 stopped supporting them 4.5 monts ago.jdb8167 said:I have a LED lightbulb app that disappeared from the app store sometime in the last 6 - 9 months. I was able to get it from a time machine backup after I upgraded to a new iPhone X but it wasn't downloadable. I just tried to see if it was available using this technique and it wasn't in the purchased list either. So, the developer (or possibly Apple with what they think is an abandoned app) can remove the app from the store and it disappears from the purchased list too.
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First look: iPhone Battery Health settings in iOS 11.3
adm1 said:this is all very well and good, but still misses the point of why this only became a "thing" from the iPhone 6 onwards. Why did iPhone 3/3G/4/4S/5/5S batteries last for several years without problems? iPhone 6 onward only seem to last 1-2years before suffering battery related issues? Are the phones now too powerful for lithium-ion tech to keep up with?Because those SOC needed less peak performance than the latest ones, a bigger battery alone does not solve this.Having higher peak performance also means more heat and that also has an impact on batteries.Apple has sort of mitigated this by in fact overhauling power management apparatus of the Iphone 8 and X (which is in fact again... "throttling" and babbying the batteries, that's what power management is doing except it will now be doing straight from the start and will thus be baked into the initial performance of the device) AND in creating smaller cores to handle tasks that don't require immediate response (so limiting the draw on the battery)Other companies like Samsung started to be hit a bit later (after the Iphone 6) cause their SOC were not as powerful and they were using multi-core already. But, in the last two years in has emerged there too and unless they put some work they'll have shutdowns all over the place.And yes, the problem is the battery technology has not kept up with how powerful those pocket computers are.They'd need some tech that is more resilient to high loads and heat and not just more energy dense, though that would help too.Another issue is USAGE of those powerful devices have changed, people in the 3GS days did a lot less thing on their phones than now, there were less Apps (the app store was pretty new) and the apps that existed had less capability. Most people didn't keep their GPS on all the time, which is the case now. Apple had strong limitations on background apps that don't exist now. Video usage on phones was lower, music streaming was emergent, few used it..Interconnection opportunities have exploded through blue tooth (headphones, Apple Watch, Speakers, beacons, home automation) or WIFI (airplay, homekit, etc, AppleTV).Finally, because those devices are so damn powerful, people don't feel a need to upgrade as quickly than before, so the heaviest users (charging say twice a day) that WOULD have been hit by these things before but had already moved on to a new phone by then, now are keeping their phones.Those heavy users are using their phones even more heavily.and intensely on phones that have gotten much more powerful and want to keep those phones longer, it's obvious a hell of a lot of people will have depleted batteries after 12-18 months than before because battery tech has barely moved.For many people, that are not heavy, intense users, the phones will still last 24-36 months before requiring a battery change. In the old days, most people would have changed their phones by year 3. But, now those "normal" users are keeping their phones and thus they will be hit before they buy their next phone, somewhere in year 3-4.It's like people got used to not changing their batteries because of the fast upgrade cycles (the people that got their phones undoubtedly knew they needed to change that battery and there were battery change shops everywhere to do it).As for pre 6 not running into this, I did run into this, but a bit later, usually if you kept your phone more than 3 years on those less powerful phones. I had to change my 3GS battery at year 4 cause it was always dying, especially if it was even slightly cold outside.
