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iPhone 14 Pro Models Rumored to Feature 48-Megapixel Camera and 8GB of RAM
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This is all so funny.
When I planned on getting the Note 3 with 3 gigs of ram and 4K video people laughed and said I was nuts. Now I can’t give the phone away.
Samsung already has 8K video and the only place the iPhone is king is in video. Accept the reality that 8K video is coming. 2tb of storage and USB C. It all works together and the notch on a high rez pro monitor is just plain stupid especially with some of the wider aspect ratios, so you get the hole punch on the pros.
If Apple can’t do this then I’m looking at the Tesla phone. And: If they bring CSAM back on the table then I’m definitely out of here!
When I planned on getting the Note 3 with 3 gigs of ram and 4K video people laughed and said I was nuts. Now I can’t give the phone away.
Samsung already has 8K video and the only place the iPhone is king is in video. Accept the reality that 8K video is coming. 2tb of storage and USB C. It all works together and the notch on a high rez pro monitor is just plain stupid especially with some of the wider aspect ratios, so you get the hole punch on the pros.
If Apple can’t do this then I’m looking at the Tesla phone. And: If they bring CSAM back on the table then I’m definitely out of here!
The average Joe was more wowed by Siri and the app store though, so it can't just be about wowing average consumers. It's probably more that they're creatively tapped-out, or nearly tapped-out.
A 1" or APS-C sensor, and no camera bump? There's this thing called physics. The camera bump on said phone would be several times thicker than the phone.
A 60" TV is hardly huge. Home cinema and 8K would be pretty sweet.
If 8K vid comes to iPhones, then I guess we can expect an Apple 8K screen at some point. Hey, I said "at some point", that includes anytime in the next 1000+ years, so don't shoot me down too quick 
The egg came first and the screens come first in history so
I'm sure there'll eventually be an option for one that doesn't. (They'll have to rebrand it the iCamera.)
It gives you much higher quality, even if you go down to 1080p. You always like to start with more resolution. You can crop a frame, get in closer, still have 4K or 5K. With HDR. What I do wonder is, when will they speed up the old Apple input and output? A Thunderbolt 4? Or at least a well-chosen USB 4? An 8K camera with ProRes RAW gives you one heck of an image.
The hardware is important, but the real trick is the AI that decides how you will probably want to see it. These cameras are the Brownie cameras of the digital era. You can use them like a pro, or you can just have the usual family shots, vacations, etc., really let you see a beautiful image of your family that will stay that way for a very long while. My parents had two Kodak snapshot cameras. That's what most people had. No flash. Had to take it in daylight, your f-stop was about f8. All black and white until the later '50s. I've been using the 12 Pro Max for a year and a half. The contrast between what I can take, with almost no trouble, and the picture my parents took, shows what a great camera you get on a phone.
Nobody aware about the rule of diminishing returns?
Ultra-super-duper 8K for consumers is pretty pointless. You gain little extra of visible wow-effect, but pay with huge additional costs of GPU power requirement, necessary bandwidth traffic (streaming), necessary flash storage space, ressource wasting and higher prices. Nobody needs 8K for home cinema, as 4K already looks absolutely fantastic and even (good) 1080p material like Game of Thrones demonstrates that the race for 8K, 16K, 32K... is pure marketing. And yet people still fall for it, because "it's even higher, so it must be much better!"
8K is nice for studios (cropping, stabilization) and that's pretty much it.
I don't need and want this in a darn consumer smartphone. Rather focus on pixel size and ISP quality, not pixel amount.
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Ultra-super-duper 8K for consumers is pretty pointless. You gain little extra of visible wow-effect, but pay with huge additional costs of GPU power requirement, necessary bandwidth traffic (streaming), necessary flash storage space, ressource wasting and higher prices. Nobody needs 8K for home cinema, as 4K already looks absolutely fantastic and even (good) 1080p material like Game of Thrones demonstrates that the race for 8K, 16K, 32K... is pure marketing. And yet people still fall for it, because "it's even higher, so it must be much better!"
8K is nice for studios (cropping, stabilization) and that's pretty much it.
I don't need and want this in a darn consumer smartphone. Rather focus on pixel size and ISP quality, not pixel amount.
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Yeah I’ve never felt the need to be a spec w***e but 8GB seems a little low. I was looking at that the other day. Of course it will get you by, but when we think of future proofing devices that don’t need a yearly upgrade, it’s a little frustrating. My mid-2017 MBP has 8GB and I don’t think I upgraded. Here we are 5 years later and I’m not 100% sure 8GB would be “more than adequate” for average users for the next 5-7 because I don’t want “enough to get by.” But I guess we were also used to technology blasting forward over the past 20 years and while it’s still moving, I think consumer level products are (comparatively re:20 years) on a plateau at the moment.
Why nobody considers pairing this sensor with the ultra wide camera?
Adding on this sensor with a higher resolution lens, we will all rush out shooting.
Adding on this sensor with a higher resolution lens, we will all rush out shooting.
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Well, 8K screens already exist, and you can go down to your local TV shop and buy one off the shelf today. The biggest thing stopping people wanting one is lack of 8K content, so... bring on the chickens, and ta da, we present to you... the iPhone 14 Pro, with 8K video recording...
I would love the ability to plug my iPhone into a dock and use it with a mouse and keyboard on a larger screen. I would imagine in this case the UI would look like an iPad Pro.