an 8-megapixel "periscope" lens with 5× optical zoom.....read. From Huawei's site
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iPhone 15 Pro Max to Feature Rearranged Camera Layout to Accommodate Periscope Lens
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The 5X periscope zoom is an optical zoom. The zoom mechanism moves perpendicular to the sensor and lens instead of parallel like on a camera. The iPhones are just primes despite apple calling them zoom.
I guess I can look forward to 2028 when the non-Pro models finally get the Periscope lens 
Camera musical chair!
Honestly, how many user know which one is which? 😂
Honestly, how many user know which one is which? 😂
You‘re both wrong, sorry. If it was a real optical zoom, the specs would describe the zoom range (like the Sony XPeria one). Periscope on the other phones is just a way to make a longer fixed focal length work.
Maybe adding the periscope lens to the smaller 15 Pro necessitated a larger body, but Apple wasn’t ready to release the redesigned, slightly larger body this year. Also suppliers may give them a better deal next year so then it would make sen$e for Tim to wait until next year to let both models have it.
the problem here the gap between the 1x and 6x is too large and u do need extra lens like samsung ultra have 2 zoom lens or there is much of a gap. some say u can use the 48mp to crop but that isnt a perfect solution so u left with too much of a gap in the zoom. and samsung has 10x lens and in the ultra 23 they using AI to push it to about 13X according the testing i have done . u still so far behind. also i tested the ip14pro zoom appl isnt using any AI to boost the zoom. and samsung only started using AI zoom booster on the ultra 23 but this was never disclosed but i found it by running tests at bestbuy i dont own the phone. ultra 23 uses a double folded periscope
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Or not.
All the rumor says is that the cameras are moving within the bump, not that the shape of the bump is changing.
Of course it's just to boost the Max sales. I'm always super sad when people delude themselves to believe that some things have different reasons that just $$$. A huge chunk of Apple's fanbase is deluded.
Big, bigger and heavier.
It's time for Apple to do a 180, and focus on a lighter phone... compared to "mini".
And getting lighter and lighter.
The iPhone Light.
It's time for Apple to do a 180, and focus on a lighter phone... compared to "mini".
And getting lighter and lighter.
The iPhone Light.
Precisely. It's baffling when anyone at all fails to see this.
I don't care AT ALL about the camera, I'd rather have a Pro Max size phone with a 5S camera so there's no bump.
Bleh. No.
The biggest phone that exists today is still tiny compared to the brick phone I used to carry. And I didn't mind the size or weight of the brick.
As far as I'm concerned, the Pro Max would be about the right size if it was about 3x as thick and had a hot-swappable battery and no stupid camera bulge.
appl is coming with it 5yrs too late and 5-6x is too small appl needs to be competitive with samsung and get a 10x maybe that will be next yr
this is from pixel7pro
I know you were trying to flex with that photo, but it has poor image quality at best. You should have used samsung because they artificially fake moon images.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple did this just to make the phone look physically different to encourage sales to be honest. Some people feel really elitist about the number of lenses on the back, so a different orientation would appeal to those individuals.
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You don’t need 10x to compete thes3 days due to higher MP cropping results are pretty much neck and neck
Viv, oppo, xiaomi can all beat Samsungs 10x even with less optical range