Why cant live photos be on the other Iphones? At first I thought it was a touch 3d thing, but since the SE has it (I believe) this makes no sense to me.
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It's still Live Photos. It just doesn't activate with 3D Touch. It uses a long press instead of a hard press.
So it's definitely Live Photos
Well, taking them pretty much has nothing to do with 3D Touch, but it has to do with the camera/device always recording essentially when the camera app is on, so it depends on the camera and related hardware, which the 6s and 6s+ have and SE has, but not other phones.
I can't think of a hardware limitation that would prevent any iphone from recording a brief video along with a photo. Withholding it from older models is only about selling new phones.
One thing to keep in mind is that in case of Live Photos the video portion has to be recorded prior to the photo being taken as well as after, meaning it has to already be recording even before a photo is taken.
That's an interesting point. I know that the video portion of the live photo records after the actual photo because most of my live photos include me lowering the camera, so i wasn't sure whether the video starts before the photo. In other words, in the 3 second video clip, where is the point the picture is saved? The exact middle?
I still think it could be implemented, or at least simulated by recording a video after the photo, if it can't start before the photo with older iphones.
EDIT: just did a quick test and it does appear to be roughly the middle of the video
As I recall, it's the middle--basically 1.5 seconds recorded before and 1.5 seconds are recorded after the point of the photo itself.
It could be done in some parts one way or another, but it wouldn't quite be the Live Photo feature as Apple has put forth. There are definitely some apps out there that allow for something similar, but not the same.
Yes, I tested and you are right. And yes, not exactly the same, but it could be very reasonably approximated, I think.
so that you are coerced to buy newer models of phones. That's the simple answer to many such missing features, which can be implemented with existing hardware, but are not.
Or not all of them can be implemented in the same way that they are supposed to function.