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Its a shame the Pixal 4A does not have an ultrawide camera. Of all the newfangled phone features, an ultrawide camera (with the software to back it) seems to b

Its a shame the Pixal 4A does not have an ultrawide camera. Of all the newfangled phone features, an ultrawide camera (with the software to back it) seems to be one of the new truly worth while features. I never understood nor cared for the feature until my job gave me a new phone with that had one. It would be quite the bummer to go back to having a phone without this feature. So many phone reviews drone on and on about the latest Snapdragon 2934838 chipset with its 2^N cores and 2^N GB of RAM. The vast majority of us simply don't care for the horsepower nonsense. We're not looking to run hadoop on top of k8s on our phones. The cameras are really where things matter.

notyourday 6y ago
> The vast majority of us simply don't care for the horsepower nonsense. Non-flagship Android phones are visibly slower in a responsiveness than flagships. So yes, people do care, otherwise they would not be buying flagships, saving gobs of money and accepting that sometimes it takes several seconds to open an app.
ShamelessC 6y ago
The vast majority of us don't care for an ultrawide camera. Especially people shopping at a $350 price point. Unrelated, but what the hell is the obsession with cameras? Are you all constantly on vacation, bumping into celebrities and taking Instagram pictures of your food or whatever? I almost exclusively use my camera to take pictures of notes and other text that I need to reference later. Occasionally I need to share something noteworthy that's happening in real time with a friend but I don't need professional level photos for that. Besides, even if you have low quality photos you can "easily" upconvert them using one of the many available open source super resolution neural nets. I realize average people aren't going to know how to do that, and there's a convenience factor either way, but this community consists of fairly intelligent folks

notyourday 6y ago

> The vast majority of us simply don't care for the horsepower nonsense. Non-flagship Android phones are visibly slower in a responsiveness than flagships. So yes, people do care, otherwise they would not be buying flagships, saving gobs of money and accepting that sometimes it takes several seconds to open an app.

ShamelessC 6y ago

The vast majority of us don't care for an ultrawide camera. Especially people shopping at a $350 price point. Unrelated, but what the hell is the obsession with cameras? Are you all constantly on vacation, bumping into celebrities and taking Instagram pictures of your food or whatever? I almost exclusively use my camera to take pictures of notes and other text that I need to reference later. Occasionally I need to share something noteworthy that's happening in real time with a friend but I don't need professional level photos for that. Besides, even if you have low quality photos you can "easily" upconvert them using one of the many available open source super resolution neural nets. I realize average people aren't going to know how to do that, and there's a convenience factor either way, but this community consists of fairly intelligent folks