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Perhaps one day they will add enough cameras to make the phone flat again.
by dan-robertson 7y ago
Perhaps one day they will add enough cameras to make the phone flat again.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI'm impressed at the sheer number of bumps. Pretty much guaranteed to be resting your phone on a camera lens. I wonder if it'll actually sit flat on its back.
- masklinn 7y agoThey haven't been resting flat on their back since the iphone 6 introduced a camera bump.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoOh weird. Being in Android land I'm not used to camera bumps.
- fetus8 7y agoI feel like the best compromise would be to utilize the new, larger camera bump to add a slightly larger image sensor, even just 25-50% larger than the current sensors. I feel like it would make a noticeable improvement to the image quality, and justify the giant bump on the back of these devices.
- stilldavid 7y agoWith a larger sensor, wouldn't you need a longer lens to get the same effective focal length, making the bump protrude even more?
- nanoservices 7y agoI'd rather they make the back uniform thickness so the camera bump is eliminated. Take the extra space for a larger battery. No one is asking for thinner phones but quite a lot of people would love phones with better battery life.
- perishabledave 7y agoI think that's the joke. If they added more cameras such that they covered the back of the phone, there wouldn't be a bump.
- mgolawala 7y agoWhile I agree with you and felt the same way as you, I found that it wasn't as big an issue once I bought a case for the phone. Once you put a case on the phone the camera bump completely disappears. I dont know what percentage of iPhone users go case-less with their phones, but I haven't seen one being used without a case.. and I have been actively looking for them. I say this as a person who used to go case-less with my iPhones until my iPhones started having camera bumps. Then I started to get a case to rid myself off the camera bump. Last year I got the leather case, and while I winced at the ridiculous price I paid for it, I have been extremely happy with the choice. The blend of steel, glass and leather feels and looks great.
- techbubble 7y agoI have never used a case and never will (just don’t like the bulk they add). I do use an edge-to-edge screen protector on my XS max and keep the phone face down so the camera lenses don’t get scratched or smudged.
- core-questions 7y agoHaven't smashed a phone yet? When you do, I bet you'll get on board with the case bandwagon
- CamperBob2 7y agoI'm sure your case repels tigers, too. Right?
- somehnguy 7y agoBeen using iPhone since the 3G (X since release), have yet to smash one and have never used a case. Don't think day will ever come because cases suck and not dropping your phone isn't exactly rocket science.
- tomerico 7y agoThe camera bump(s) actually work really well with phone cases, allowing the phone with case to be thinner and flat. Since almost everyone carries their phone in a case, it seems like a reasonable solution.
- lelf 7y ago> almost everyone carries their phone in a case [citation needed]
- SamuelAdams 7y agoNot really, almost everyone I interact with uses a phone case. I have one friend who does not have a case on his iPhone 6, and he's actively trying to break that into a state of disrepair so he can justify upgrading to a new phone. Can you count how many people you know that do not use a phone case?
- mattlondon 7y agoI don't know anyone who uses a case. Why bother when you get a new phone every 12-18 months and cases don't stop the screen breaking (unless you get something absurdly chunky) Anecdotal, but then so is the GP.
- ben174 7y agoBe careful what you wish for: https://light.co/camera https://light.co/camera
- willis936 7y agoNow this is slick. I don’t think sensor fusion is a large focus for apple, judging from their lack of talking points on it. I would think with the resources to make their own ISP they could do some serious information theory work and put out photos that look far better than what smartphones do today. I originally figured that this low hanging fruit would be immediately exploited by phone manufacturers putting multiple camera sensors on a single phone, but I think that may be a little too optimistic and its something we’ll have to wait another few years to see.
- dangus 7y agoReviews of this camera are pretty bad. It doesn't produce better photos.
- willis936 7y agoThat’s too bad. It looks like this is an area ripe for some academic work. The math is all already established and the models would not be intense to develop but would provide large payoffs. It’s a much lighter version of interferometry. I don’t see why this isn’t a more hotly discussed topic.
- nullify88 7y agoMight be worth mentioning Light contributed to the camera(s) on the Nokia 9 Pureview.
- cynoclast 7y agoWTF? That's real?!
- guuguuguu 7y agounderrated
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- drdeadringer 7y agoIn my past job I tested cellphone cameras for image quality. This trend of adding more cameras//lenses was beginning to take effect. I half-joked that soon the entire back of a smartphone would surpass the "spider threshold" and eventually put a fly to shame.
- twohearted 7y agoMy cynical take is that they are intentionally: A) Making the camera protrusion ungainly so that most people think "I'm going to put a case on this to make it look and feel better." B) Changing the shape of the protrusion periodically to force people to get a new case. Therefore adding an invisible extra $40-50 profit on millions of iphones sold.