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ThTa
On The Verge since Mar 20, 2013
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Yeah, that’s an awful lot more than I got:
Though I suspect it might have something to do with HTC, I’m reading a lot of older reports where the EQ was similarly gone on devices like the Droid DNA.
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I can’t seem to find it in Settings, it just shows Google Account, Open source licenses and Music version…
Am I looking in the wrong place?
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Recommended nikolay.babanov's comment in The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple
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You may want to look into some well-done raytracing demos, they look an awful lot more real than these brushed flat photos. Are you seeing those buttons on the iPad image in the article (particularly the silence switch), and the way the screen is literally pasted-on?
The embedded video has someone going about in Photoshop making the home buttons’ logos a consistent, pure white and literally taking a grey brush tool along the edges to create the illusion of a more diffusely reflective metal.I used to think a lot of Apple’s PR images were just exceedingly poor renders, and now that I know how much effort went into making those photos, I kinda wish I didn’t, because it just makes me upset to think about how post can ruin all that effort.
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They should start off by using a SoC that is actually suited for the task at hand. Using an OMAP4 is utterly ridiculous and is what’s ruining the battery life. (Also, since it’s constantly got Bluetooth running, getting BT4LE on there would help an awful lot as well.)
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Recommended NexusDroid's comment in Lumia 928's PureView camera competes with Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 in Nokia video
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Yeah, and as that comparison shows, that isn’t exactly a bad thing.
The N95’s camera is excellent, and the One not only bests it by a slight margin (or a considerable one if you’re just going by their standard DSP processing instead of what you can do with the images in post), but manages to be considerably faster (than it, and pretty much every other phone) and adds on OIS, 1080p video recording and great mics.
Meanwhile, the 920’s processing manages to ruin any potential it might’ve had.
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Recommended vlad0's comment in Lumia 928's PureView camera competes with Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 in Nokia video
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Recommended mistalee3's comment in Lumia 928's PureView camera competes with Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 in Nokia video
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The S3 is a far better video camera than the S4, though. The S3 uses 2×2 pixel binning for its 1080p video (it’s actually the only phone I can think of that does that, though the iPhone 5 also uses it for low-light stills), which massively improves sharpness and clarity as well as low-light performance.
(Check out GSMArena’s video comparison stills: http://www.gsmarena.com/vidcmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=5125&idPhone2=4238)
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You can go back to the top of Blinkfeed and pretty much every HTC app (including the app drawer itself) by pressing on the status bar.
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Allow for RSS feeds, and let me add and remove as many Blinkfeed pages as I want. So different custom feeds are just a swipe away. Also, somehow implement a custom Facebook interface instead of having items linking to the app; Facebook’s official app is complete and utter trash.
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Doesn’t look like it. You can use HTC Share, but that just results in a compressed video and seems to throw away the most useful part (the multitude of pictures it takes). Sharing it through any other method just has it show up as a (1080p, 8mbps) video and 20 seperate images. (Though kudos to HTC for sticking to EXIF, I guess.)
I’ve used it once so far (though I’ve only been using my One for one day), and that was to get a decent image of a particularly jittery cat. Seems like it could be really useful (especially with all the editing you can do on-device with them), but I kinda wish it was just a seperate button instead of a toggle (between regular pictures and Zoes).
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First day of shooting pictures with the One, and I’m loving it so far, but it’s also made me realize that above anything else, I’d like to be able to stop down. Blown out highlights have been the main reason for me discarding shots, so far. (Though it has been a very bright day.)
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This is available in the GS4, but not enabled by default. This is because night/low-light mode is horribly slow and highly susceptible to blurring and ghosting, so it’s probably not ideal if people don’t know what it’s doing. (The blurring because of the long exposure times, the ghosting because it’s also doing composite HDR.)
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I’m not sure where this idea that the First is “stock Android” (which is a really weird term regardless, in light of AOSP and Google Experience/Certified builds being different things) comes from. It still has AT&T’s shoddy updater and Facebook messing with the kernel to improve its Home integration (to make all notifications appear on the lock screen). It also has HTC’s network batch requests on stand-by (which is a vastly superior solution compared to Google’s “just let every app developer sort it out for themselves”, but non-“stock” regardless).
I’m pretty sure HTC or Samsung could release any of their current phones, but with Holo/Apex/Nova Launcher and the AOSP keyboard pre-loaded and the Verge would be convinced it’s “stock”. :/
