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Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com)
A rumor from The Korea Herald suggests that Apple may be planning on introducing its first triple camera smartphone this year with the rumored 6.5-inch iPhone. The rumor comes buried in a piece mostly about Samsung, which is also expected to introduce a triple-camera smartphone with next year's S10. The Next Web reports: To be clear, this isn't the first time we've heard word of a triple camera iPhone, but the three previous reports have pointed to a 2019 release, according to MacRumors. One of these reports was from Ming Chi Kuo, an Apple analyst who has a solid track record. The fact that's it's mentioned offhandedly in the Korea Herald report makes me think the date may have been a mistake. No matter how good AI and processing get, there's only so much you can do within the physical constraints of a small smartphone sensor. In theory, using multiple cameras and combining the information with some smart processing could help you somewhat replicate the image quality of a larger sensor.
Phones with 3 cameras. Razors with 5 blades. Monkeys with 6 asses.
No room for an sd slot, removable battery, or headphone jack. But 3 cameras, sure.
Fuck everything, we're doing five cameras.
And I raise u 3 cameras ;) and an auto screen wiper.
AI? Wtf? Do we need AI label slapped everywhere? It's an damn extra camera - a lens and a CCD. What AI is there?
Real Men shave with dull hatchets and take pictures with one lens. Everything else is for pussies and people with pussies.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The Samsung rumor is at least consistent with one of the patent applications I made while at Google; it was for a multidirectional camera using a single CCD to effectively create more than one camera aperture.
Mostly the intent was to reduce COGS (Cost of Goods Sold), by about $35 per camera assembly.
In practice, it might also have resulted in an overall thinner device.
Puny iPhone ...
The xKCD Phone 2000 has 5 cameras!
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I'd like a wide shot selfie camera, for when I forgot a selfie stick but need to fit everyone in the photo.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Yeah, and it's going to be liquid nitrogen cooled and have a battery life stated in milliseconds.
But it will be thin. Wafer thin.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The Huawei P20 Pro, which came out in March, already uses 3 cameras. According to online reviews for the P20 Pro, the triple-camera setup does dramatically improve image quality, especially under low-light conditions.
I am still bitter about the headphone jack and even if Apple puts 50 cameras on it, I am going to pass.
In my opinion, Apple's bad design decisions since 2015 are only getting worse and worse.
Johnny Ive's needs to be demoted.
My Kyocera DuraForce Pro from 2016 has three cameras. One front-facing, one regular rear, one action rear with wide-angle lens, meant for underwater shots.
Welcome to a couple years ago, Apple.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
They'll remove the phone's earpiece speaker. Nobody needs to listen to the phone directly. That's what those $180 epods or earwigg whatchacallit things are for. It will be BRAVE. They can include a little dongle speaker in the box, that plugs into the darkening port, to assauge the timid.
I'm curious to know what a 3rd camera would offer a phone?
I've seen the pictures from an iPhone X with the fake depth of field thing, regardless of it being fake, it does look really quite nice.
Modern smartphone cameras are really good, even for a single lense. Any smart guys here know what a full 3 could do for a phone?
Oh and all the comments whining about the headphone jack? Agreed entirely. Idiotic move, I'll wait for someone else to copy the 3 cameras, when it's on a phone with a headphone jack.
It is going to be interesting to see how they market the new wafer-thin metalenses when they hit production in a few years. They have no need to be round and open up the ability to tune the angle from which incoming light is focused on each pixel of the sensor.
We could have sensors that are a rectangular strip the width of the camera that use a lens that essentially makes each pixel or small group of pixels a camera looking in different directions or the same from varying points of view. The end result should be a camera that can beat binocular vision in depth sensing while allowing depth of field and focus to be selected after the shot is taken.
But, how do you market a return to a single camera to a society focused on numbers? Perhaps it's like the one lens to rule them all.
No mention of putting the cameras on opposite ends of the phone so you could use it for stereoscopic photos. That would be cool.
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There will be a 1 cm hole in the center of the screen for a new camera. And we'll all have to rewrite our apps to literally work around the problem.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
No matter how good AI and processing get, there's only so much you can do within the physical constraints of a small smartphone sensor.
Every human has the same physicality, therefore the same brain architecture.
It's the software, stupid.
No sig for you! Come back one year!
This makes pretty good business sense because the phones are already practically disposable. Next someone will have a 4-camera phone, and then we'll see 5 cameras.
Make love, not reality television.
Real men find a flat rock and use another to sharpen one edge in order to shave. If they want to take a "picture" they record the scene by carving it onto a piece of wood.
Angular resolution
For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Soon:
"Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Cameras"
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036
"Hey, shaving with anything less than five blades is like scraping your beard off with a dull hatchet."
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Maybe they should release one without a massive, widespread defect for once instead. That seems like a better use of R&D money.
For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
Apple removed the Floppy drive from the original iMac in 1998. At that point the computer came with a CD-ROM drive, not a CD-R/RW. USB Flash drives had yet to be invented, and highspeed internet access was not universal, and "cloud" storage wasn't really a thing. I'd say it was another 5 years before they started disappearing from Desktop PCs.
Optical drives probably started disappearing in the 2007/2008 range with Netbooks and the original MacBook air. Then people started realizing they hardly used them anyways.
Just like they did when Apple removed the parallel port, RS232, modems, Firewire, ethernet, headphone jack, replaceable batteries, Flash support, user-expandable DRAM, VGA ports, the original iPod connector, etc., etc.
/. does. It's pretty hard to find a more anti-innovation website. Apple is worth $800B specifically because they ignore /.
Shitting bricks is just what
So Apple screwed up on the floppy drive too. Meanwhile, people who used sensible devices like Thinkpads had a floppy option until flash drives *were* invented, or at least the laptop came with a CD/RW. Apple has a long history of abandoning users, that part is clear.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Blade razors kept clogging for me, so I went to an electric razor. Then I noticed the trimmer on the electric razor did a better job than the razor itself, so I bought a trimmer. Now that is all I use.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Neither will you in a few years, but by then you'll be whining about whatever the next thing Apple does.
Instead of adding MORE cameras, how about making the stupid image sensor array LARGER. By increasing the size of the sensor array, EACH sensor would be LARGER, allowing for MORE light to be captured. Then, by adding a LARGER lens, you wouldn't need all of these gimmicks suck as 2,3 or more cameras. But, in the age of "more is better" sheep on the Apple & Android front, will probably fall for this garbage.
I've had around 5 generations of Thinkpads now, and 2 generations of Macbooks. I've had to get around 15 dongles to support my use of the mac in my house. Exactly 0 for the Thnkpads that I can think of. It's no wonder Apple makes so much money, they are literally forcing me to buy extra products just for the 'privilage' of using one of their products.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.