This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
My theory is Google etc. focus on cameras so much because reviewers are media people that take a lot of videos and photos.. if you want a good review you ship a good camera.
Meanwhile all I want to see as an ordinary user is battery life, size and weight. If I take a photo it's going on facebook (Well, more like mastodon these days) and any camera phone made in the last 10 years is fine.
I feel you. I went for a pixel 7 so that I can use GrapheneOS, but this thing is a hefty-chonker, and if i am bored at work, the battery will barely make it through the day. My former CCP-branded phone was much lighter and would easily last 2 days with one charge when new.
You can clearly see a qualitative difference between good and bad cameras even onf facebook-sized photos.
Sure, but for the vast majority of people the difference is completely irrelevant. 4k to 8k doesn't matter, we're already in HD.
It's not about the resolution which as you mention is already more than sufficient. But you can easily see bad optics, bad color rendition, oversharpening etc. on a 500px image.
amazing
Let me know when it can go to work for me and I can sit on the couch all day while collecting a paycheck. 'the camera is supposed to be better' wow such amazing foresight from such a well-articulated article. Truly courageous to make such a trailblazing statement. Nobody has ever improved a product as a selling point before.
This is a marginal upgrade from the 6 and 7. Megapixel numbers alone don't really mean anything, and 'oh that's cool I guess' editing tools are meh - nobody does actual editing on their phone. If it could shoot depth-aware photos, or if it was always active with a buffer so you could go back in time X amount and save a photo you'd otherwise missed, or if it could start working to help offset the $900 (7 Pro) price a bit, that would be worthy of 'amazing'.
When everything is 'mind-blowing' and 'amazing', nothing is.
I can't wait to install CalyxOS on it.
Figuratively of course. I'm actually waiting quite easily.
