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iPhone 6s Rear Camera Rumored to Retain 8-Megapixel Sensor
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Apple has sold it's boat load of phones so why should they care what any of us say or do. The 6S models will not outsell the current ones anyway. Their putting all the eggs into the iPhone 7. The S models will receive triple core cpu and 2 gigs of ram. That's enough for Apple.
The IPhone 6 Camera is such a disappointment and this news (if they are true) are even a bigger step back.
The 16MP Camera of the Galaxy Note 4 is so much better.
My Friend got it and he takes crystal clear and super sharp pictures.
Apple, Your Move!
The 16MP Camera of the Galaxy Note 4 is so much better.
My Friend got it and he takes crystal clear and super sharp pictures.
Apple, Your Move!
Since storage is fixed, I don't think people would be to happy about running out of storage twice as fast just so their lowrez socialmedia sharings can have a larger original they will never use..
The amount of people who print larger than A3 (11.69 x 16.53 inches) from a phone are still quite few.
Give me the things the others don't: Dynamic range, correct colors, good lowlight performance and good IS.
Exactly
We can all save us the effort in discussing this here. It contains exactly the same negative line of argumentation as every year.
Still Apple will release an iPhone this year with according to many here "mediocre" specs, but that will impress all the established reviewers and users wih its performance in all departments.
As long as my iPhone with 8MP makes better pictures than a Samsung with 16MP, I don't see a reason for all this fuss.
Still Apple will release an iPhone this year with according to many here "mediocre" specs, but that will impress all the established reviewers and users wih its performance in all departments.
As long as my iPhone with 8MP makes better pictures than a Samsung with 16MP, I don't see a reason for all this fuss.
I think we all know the megapixel count isn't what's the most important thing
BUT an 8MP sensor is probably the minimum acceptable pixel resolution. If you ever need to crop/zoom a photo - a few more MP would be really useful!
So lets stop this '8MP is fine' yes it's 'fine' but I would like better!
BUT an 8MP sensor is probably the minimum acceptable pixel resolution. If you ever need to crop/zoom a photo - a few more MP would be really useful!
So lets stop this '8MP is fine' yes it's 'fine' but I would like better!
Why oh why do they keep spouting on about 'DSLR quality', the lens may be the same quality glass, but thats it, a tiny few dollar pin hole size camera is never going to match a DSLR with big expensive sensors and interchangable lens.
Its just marketing spin to try and excite people. As for the MPX, I think 8 is alright, they could maybe bump to 12 but I don't think it'll make a huge difference.
Its just marketing spin to try and excite people. As for the MPX, I think 8 is alright, they could maybe bump to 12 but I don't think it'll make a huge difference.
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I don't mind if the camera stays the same on the iPhone 6S as long as it's flushed & gets 2 GB of RAM please.
Oh, and those antenna bands. Apple has to figure out something & redesign those lines somehow. Seriously, the back looks like crap. So not Apple.
Oh, and those antenna bands. Apple has to figure out something & redesign those lines somehow. Seriously, the back looks like crap. So not Apple.
Actually, the camera is the only disappointing thing about my iPhone 6. The focus and light capture is much better than my 4S, but all the images have excessive noise compression that "blurrs" fine detail.
If I look at a picture of my pet from both my 4S and 6, the 4S is definitely noisier, but you can see detail like the fine like individual hairs. With the 6, once you view it on a large monitor or zoom in you notice all these smears that obscure fine detail.
This issue is discussed in this thread.
Fully agree and I don't know why Gruber would make such an outrageous claim. Separately... before we declare 8 MP is not enough, we should all be reminded that a 1080P monitor can only display about 1.75 MP in a 3:2 aspect ratio. How many people are going to zoom beyond 4.5X magnification or do high resolution printing of an image taken on an iPhone?
They can't remove the camera hump unless they make the phone thicker, or change the laws of physics.
Expect a badly coded OS could make entire server halls crumble if there's appalling code. The iPhone 6 and 5S are more than powerful enough to handle iOS 8. Apple have simply been incredibly sloppy and decided to release an iOS that was far from finished.
Point being, it doesn't matter how impressive or advanced the hardware is if you have software that will cripple it.
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Except reports point to that every new model has always outsold the previous one.
The iPhone "S" updates revolve primarily around internal hardware upgrades. The camera being a very important part of it. So if that stays the same the iPhone 6S could very well be a bit of a dud. Of course the amount of megapixels is only a part of the story, so if there are still other camera improvements it's fine.
There's no such thing as triple core CPU, unless the manufacturers made quad cores and disable a core intentionally (like AMD does, so it's technically not a triple core). Cores go in 2^x numbers.
While I don't want Apple to enter the megapixel race and concentrate on picture quality and low light performance, but it has to be said that 8mp is the absolute minimum and is even offered on the cheapest smartphones ($100-200 range) these days with quite decent picture quality...
I would like to see Apple go up to 12mp with the 6s and introduce 4k video recording.
I would like to see Apple go up to 12mp with the 6s and introduce 4k video recording.
Yeah, Apple is always saving things for the next version. The rest of the phone industry doesn't do that. That's why the iPhone is now seventeen and a half years behind his closest competitor (except in sales).