This makes for one ugly phone.
But, I wouldn't mind if it improved photos, especially low-light photos.
If there is an improvement in the photos, and the camera bump is flush with the body, then I would welcome the change.
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This makes for one ugly phone.
But, I wouldn't mind if it improved photos, especially low-light photos.
If there is an improvement in the photos, and the camera bump is flush with the body, then I would welcome the change.
The thing is, Apple doesn't really care if you like it or not.
The exact same thing happens almost every year - when the 7 Plus leaked it looked so strange with its long camera cutout, then again the X and now this.
I personally don't care, mostly because I'm not upgrading but because I don't find it that ugly.
The exact same thing happens almost every year - when the 7 Plus leaked it looked so strange with its long camera cutout, then again the X and now this.
I personally don't care, mostly because I'm not upgrading but because I don't find it that ugly.
I would welcome 2 cameras but much better/bigger sensor. I like the portrait features on XS but the output is same quality as I had in iPhone 6 and 7. Using the camera in lower light (eg. artificial light at home in the evening) produces artifacts and noise.
four years seems a good cylce for the phone. ipad even longer and mac way longer. 4 6 8 - and i guess many people follow that cycle. the yearly thing is just hype. you sell your old to someone else but the MEGA cycle keeps the same.
All these posts reminds me of an old Mad Magazine cartoon-strip, where the Shutterbug-Father drags his family along on vacation. They bitch and moan over having to constantly stop and 'take yet another family photo' with the Dad seemingly being a pain in their side. His only verbal reply to their complaints was a muttered, "... I know... I know..." while peering through the viewfinder and clicking the shutter-button at each attraction.
In the very next panel... the family is gathered back at home marveling over all the vacation pics taken, and how wonderful they look standing in front of the various statues and monuments. The dad simply winking with a little knowing-smile and a quietly muttered, "...I know...I know..." over to the reading-audience.
In the very next panel... the family is gathered back at home marveling over all the vacation pics taken, and how wonderful they look standing in front of the various statues and monuments. The dad simply winking with a little knowing-smile and a quietly muttered, "...I know...I know..." over to the reading-audience.
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I agree. I think for me at this stage in the game, I'd actually feel a little embarrassed to admit to friends that I was dropping 1K a year on incremental updates. Not sure about the rest of the world, but here in the UK people wouldn't be impressed, they would just think you were a bit of a sad nob.
Also for me there comes a point where I would prefer my phone to look nice and sleek over camera improvements that are starting to make the device look ugly. Its at that point that a mobile phone can no longer make camera improvements without having a negative effect on the design of the phone. That should be the jumping off point from a mobile phone to a 'real' camera IMO, otherwise where does it end?
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Smartphone cameras are not supposed to have three lenses. Or notches. This is absurd now. Notches and tri-cameras. Yo, Apple, design is about how it LOOKS, not how it WORKS. No one cares how it works. No one. Stop it. Stop it!!! No one is using an iPhone to be productive. Give us the bling already.
There is no way on earth that anyone at Apple looked at that design and said "that's beautiful!", and if Apple are starting to make big comprimises on beauty then I think it's safe to say we are running out of things to add every year.
Look at a current iPhone XS. The rings around the camera match the color of the back/steel frame.
There is no way the new phone is going to have white rings around the camera lens. Apple has never done that before. So of course a bad render + a clear plastic case will look like an ugly phone. I guarantee the real thing won’t look like this.
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Huawei Mate 20 pro launched in October 2018 (and P20 Pro a year ago, 3 lenses but no wide angle). Try again.
I never said I wanted them to backtrack on a design. I simply said I don’t like the look of these leaks. I buy my iPhones for performance and looks. If this is what the new iPhones will look like, I won’t upgrade. My XS Max is sufficient enough to last for another year or two.
iPhone X Seri....ously ugly.
While I love having a camera in my pocket, a phone camera, whether it is made by Samsung, Apple, Huawei etc... is never going to compete with my Canon 5D. It's all just willy waving with regards to specifications, megapixels and lenses when it comes these things.
I have a 8 plus won’t be buying another iPhone until notch eliminated or drastically reduced in size.
So true. That notch is horrible. It's put me off latest iPhones and I went with iPhone 8 Plus ( The Last iPhone which was also a productivity tool as well) . I just can't stand having a chunk out of my display and they've tried to convince everyone its a thing of beauty. It's not. They could've put R&D into making a finger print scanner under the display that is as good as the Touch ID button and make the display truly edge to edge. And this triple camera setup as well? Jobs would never have let any of this pass. He would have pushed them to find a better way.
Given the size of that camera plateau, I see no reason why those sensors all can't be 12mp, at least 1.5u pixel size, and have 3-axis optical image stabilization.
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