ISSUE 72 • ANDROID ADVISOR 95They’re innovations that stick – features such as
portrait mode, Night Sight and HDR.
Quite frankly, neither phone even needed new
camera hardware to make those claims. Google and
Apple work on improving the finished product – the
photo – rather than wowing us with what’s used
to take it. The innovations are what’s invisible and
constantly refined to deliver the possible end result,
no matter which device you’re using.
Take Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10. For the first time
in a few generations, the main three cameras were the
same as the ones on the Galaxy S10 and S10+. The
only truly new thing camera-wise was an improved
editingapp.Thesamenessshowed,ina goodway:the
Note 10 madea better-than-averageleapinlow-light
photography and overall quality as compared to bothThe Galaxy S9+ introduced
a manual dual aperture that
was cool to watch but not
all that useful