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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (23 children)

Nobody needs bazillion cameras, a range finder, laser focuses and shit that's needs to be in a professional camera hardware in a phone. You just need total of 2 cameras and a decent hardware. I don't want to pay for a extra N cameras in a phone.

Also what the fuck happened to changeable batteries. I had a Samsung note 4 and used that shit until 2019 when I broke it ( had some anger issues that year). Waterproof dust proof excuses can go have an intercourse with their phones. I used that phone in 6 different countries and all kind of weather nothing happened to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Um, like 85% of my work and 40% of my hobbies utilize those features extensively so, yes, people do need those things. Literally for science. Them being baked into base design keeps costs down on tiny budgets. It also helps out students and citizen scientists who don't have to go buy specialized gear- it's already on whatever they have.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And that translate to us normal plebs in what way? And how much of a population you/your job/your requirements representative of the general population?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It seems my logical comment cause some of you camera junkies to get butt hurt. Good to know why even a below 200$ smartphone is coming with 5 different cameras.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think users actually have to pick the camera and select rangefinder before taking a photo?

For the average user, which doesn't mean teen social media user, the added cameras let them take better pictures. My mother in law doesn't know or care how many cameras her phone has. It takes a good picture of her grandchildren.

That's all that matters. The extra cameras and rangefinder is what makes that possible without her needing to know anything. The extra cameras are completely transparent to the end user. They don't have to know or care.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's see my old ass Samsung note 4 took the same quality of pictures with one camera module. Without the need of the range finder, laser focuses and bazillion extra cameras with different lenses. Somehow it managed.

Yes the average plebes like me doesn't choose the fucking range finder and you don't need bazillion cameras on your phone to took a decent picture. Your subjective experience with your in-laws doesn't change the fact that you don't need those extra bells and whistles.

Those extra cameras doesn't bring ease of use or better picture quality neither your arguments in this discussion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let’s see my old ass Samsung note 4 took the same quality of pictures with one camera module.

Same quality as what? Because there are objective, reproducible tests that I can show where my Pixel 7 pro outperforms the Samsung note 4.

The note 4 has no optical zoom, where my Pixel has a 5x optical zoom. This gave me good photos of my son on stage in orchestra which would be a few pixel blur on a Samsung note 4.

The note 4 has no wide angle camera so getting that Christmas dinner table photo with everyone in the photo was an easy pinch zoom-out instead of attempting to stand in the far corner of the room and still missing some people.

Average users want their phones to take a good photo. I linked proof of that in the other reply. Average users don't care what goes on behind the scenes for that to happen.

It doesn't matter whether it's one camera or 5. It doesn't matter whether there is a rangefinder. What matters is the photo.

You claim to be an average user yet your obsession on how a good quality photo should be achieved, rather than how it is currently done is something only a technical user would care about.

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