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The camera is so bad that it's even a shame that they bothered adding it. The additional cost for the hardware clearly wasn't worth it.
by dleslie 5y ago
The camera is so bad that it's even a shame that they bothered adding it. The additional cost for the hardware clearly wasn't worth it.
- floren 5y agoSeconded. It's been several years of development time and I still think I'd get better pictures with one of those cameras that saved pictures on floppy disks. I've bought two Pinephones and I hope things go well but man, I install Mobian and wonder what exactly their long term plan is... it runs like an absolute dog, worse than a $30 Android prepaid phone. The only way to get reasonable performance has been to use sxmo, which is ok for me but not the experience normal people want.
- fsflover 5y agoIf you need a good camera, consider Librem 5 instead.
- seba_dos1 5y agoNote that while it's already possible to get really good looking photos out of L5 camera, there's still quite a lot of software work left to do for it to work in an effortless point-and-shoot fashion. It will come, just be aware it's not there yet.
- ben-schaaf 5y agoIf Pine64 didn't include hardware that wasn't fully software supported at any arbitrary point in time then the PinePhone as a whole wouldn't exist in the first place. The thing with the cameras is there's hardly anyone putting effort into them - on average around ~1 person is working on the entire camera stack in their free time (there's a number of people, but none spend their whole time on the cameras). So it's honestly pretty amazing how far we've already come.