• Find X7 Ultra debuts OPPO's Quad Main Camera and advanced 1-inch Sony LYT-900 sensor • World-first dual-periscope telephoto cameras with class-leading large sensors and 14mm-270mm quality zoom • Sophisticated styling combines with Ultra flagship features

https://www.oppo.com/en/newsroom/press/oppo-find-x7-ultra-hypertone-camera-system/

First full-size sample images:

https://weibo.com/oppo?is_hot=1&layerid=4992212192463708

It is expected that the optical shape of the iPhone 14 Pro main camera sensor will be increased to 1/1.3 inches, the pixels will have a size of 1.22 microns.

These changes will increase the price. The iPhone 14 Pro is rumored to start at $1,100, which is $100 more than the iPhone 13 Pro. The presentation of new products is expected in September this year.

• Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
• 50MP Sony IMX766 primary camera
• Gimbal-style stabilizer for superb video
• 4,300 mAh battery

Stupid me for thinking that USB-C PD is a totally compatible standard, so I got a 65 watt charger from Hama. Howeve, this 65 watt PD charger only charges the S22 Ultra phone with <18 watts. No other non genuine USB-C PD charger gives anything other than <18 watts either.

I also tried the USB-C PD port on my Ecoflow power pack: just 15 watts while the USB-A "fast charge" port gives 16 watts. On camping trips I mostly use the Ecoflow, so the fact that the USB-C PD port only manages 15 watts (and not the advertised 45 watt charging speed on the S22 Ultra is a real bummer).

Entering the Samsung genuine 25 watt USB-C power brick with my step-son uses: The S22 Ultra charges with "super fast" for the first time.

Is the genuine Samsung PD chargers (25/45 watt) the only one which works with the Samsung S22 phones?

What happened to the USB-C PD universal specs?

Top smartphone will use large IMX989 1" Sony sensor

Industry rumor is that new owner of Olympus brand sold right for its usage to Samsung.

brand can be used for lot of top and mid range smartphones, similar to previous deal with Schneider Kreuznach that they used on early phones and lot of camera lenses and compacts.

From some iPhone users you can hear: "Android is bad!" At the same time, it is not clear whether we are talking about the OS or about all devices on Android.

If we are talking about devices, then in the context of filming a video, I have to agree.

If we are talking about the OS, then I fundamentally disagree.

During the development of the application, and this is already almost 3 years, I faced a huge number of problems associated with the operation of individual devices and even problems inherent in all products of individual brands!

Therefore, I can confidently assert that Android, as an OS, is almost never to blame for problems on devices.

The whole tragedy of the Android world lies in the inappropriate attitude of phone manufacturers to the Android API documentation.

They ignore all the possibilities, with a stubborn desire to replace the existing mechanisms with their own "crutches", which they also do not seek to document and generally advertise to the developers of third-party applications.

Let's take a closer look at the most relevant features that users rush in and want in applications.

Record 60 frames per second. By far the most requested feature among amateur users. Modern iPhone can 4K60 on all sensors available on the device. Modern Android in 99% of cases can only 1080 @ 60 in an application from the manufacturer, and 4K60 in 100% of cases can only in an application from the manufacturer. Behind the scenes, using a crystal ball of predictions (or an army of users, as I do), you can activate this function on individual devices. But these are "crutches", and we are talking about the normal work of the documentation. At the same time, in principle, you can forget about 4K60 on all sensors in 99% of cases, even with the use of crutches.

Stabilization. The second most requested function. The modern iPhone allows you to enable both optical and digital stabilization (if available on the device) in third-party applications. Modern Android only from two manufacturers allows you to enable digital stabilization in third-party applications: Sony and Huawei. All the rest have undocumented solutions of the last century, which cannot be invented from the ceiling, and you can come to them only with the device in your hands. The funny thing is that this functionality is designated in the Camera2 API as provided and working, but in fact we have what we have.

HDR video recording. Modern iPhones can record 10-bit HDR video, let you turn off metadata and leave only 10-bit. Modern Android does not always allow you to record 10 bits, even with the necessary hardware codec on board, and HDR video is a separate topic altogether. For some, it turns on automatically when the codec profile is activated, for others, the HDR video is hidden in some undocumented settings, for others, even if it is available in a native application, it cannot be activated in a third-party application.

Ability to disable noise reduction and sharpening. We found Android to be an advantage over the iPhone. Apple does not allow users to adjust these two parameters, sadly but true. This is one of two disadvantages of the iPhone. But let's be honest, this doesn't always work on Android either. Samsung and Huawei decided for us that artificial sharpness is what we need. And you can at least turn off the sharpness, it will remain where it is. Noise cancellation also has its own strange behavior. It can be automatically turned on when the image processing is connected through the GPU of the phone. Some Xiaomi phones suffer from this. Considering all this, the advantage over the iPhone is somewhat blurred.

Manual exposure adjustment. The iPhone has no problem with manually adjusting the exposure, but it does have an issue with automatic HDR that will ruin any video footage with its silly AI solutions. The mode turns on and off when he wants to, there is no way to control it. This is the second and final flaw on the iPhone. Let's be honest, the Chinese manufacturers that constantly look into Apple's mouth have copied this problem exactly, and new Android devices can suffer from the same disease. It is often not even clear why the image changes so unexpectedly. Either the system decided to highlight the frame for better focusing, or the white balance of the scene changed so dramatically, or it works the same HDR. The problem most often occurs on Xiaomi devices. Another problem with manual exposure adjustment is incorrect autofocus operation. On some Chinese devices, autofocus stops working as soon as the manual exposure mode is activated. Also, autofocus often works worse in third-party applications than in native applications. Why and why remains a mystery.

Focus. As usual, both manual and automatic works on the iPhone as in the native application. Android was able to become a problem here as well. The most common, when autofocus can focus to infinity, and in the manual focus mode, it is simply unavailable, and it is not possible to focus on distant objects. The problem manifested itself on all Chinese-made devices, except for Huawei. And Samsung on Snapdragon devices generally made manual focus work ineffective.

Manual white balance. For the most part, almost all sensors with Full support (read the Android documentation) handle this task. At this point, Huawei devices lost a lot because of their innovative solution with RYYB sensors. They had to turn off the manual WB setting for third-party applications, because Android does not know that such sensors exist.

Secondary cameras (ultra-wide, telephoto). The modern iPhone allows you to shoot with all available cameras, and often in the same mode. Android tends to hide them from third-party apps. Samsung has been hiding its telephoto camera for many years, because it is very limited in capabilities and will look shameful against the background of the main module. OnePlus in new updates banned the use of secondary cameras altogether, with which this is connected, even OnePlus support cannot answer. Xiaomi does not officially give access to secondary sensors, but at the same time it does not block them tightly. I consider Sony's approach to be an adequate approach. They initially opened all the sensors without trying to hide their flaws. And the disadvantages can be very significant. The first and most serious one is the absence of any manual control. Second, the picture quality is 10 times worse than on the main sensor. The third one is the very different possibilities in terms of resolution and frame rate. With the main one capable of 4K, the secondary module may only be capable of 1080. Three more or less equal sensors are not present on any Android device today.

Record 24/25 frames per second. Huawei devices may declare support or not. OnePlus devices basically ignore these frequencies as unnecessary. Xiaomi does not officially support anything, but it works great. Those. all work with these frequencies is fortune telling on the coffee grounds. The only manufacturer that has declared and maintained in working order is Sony.

Full original in Russian at https://habr.com/ru/post/584616/

• 6.5" OLED 3,840 x 1,644 resolution (4K) screen
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
• Rear cameras
  • Ultra-wide: 12MP sensor 1/2.55", 16mm, f/2.2 aperture, Dual PDAF
  • Wide: 12MP sensor 1/1.7" , 24mm, f/1.7 aperture, Dual PDAF, OIS
  • Telephoto: 12MP sensor 1/3.4", 70mm, 3x optical zoom, f/2.4 aperture, PDAF, OIS
  • Depth sensor: 3D iTOF, 0.3 MP
• Rear cameras video modes
  • UHD at 24/25/30/60fps with HDR support, 5-axis gyro-EIS, OIS
  • 1080p at 30/60/120fps; 5-axis gyro-EIS, OIS
• Front camera: 8 MP, f/2.0, 24mm (wide), 1/4"
  • 1080p@30fps (5-axis gyro-EIS)
• 8GB RAM/ 256GB SSD
• Headphone jack
• Dual stereo front speakers
• 4,000mAh battery
• 166 x 72 x 7.9mm
• 181g

Lenses

Photo App

Video App

• https://consumer.huawei.com/en/phones/p50/
• https://consumer.huawei.com/en/phones/p50-pro/

https://www.blink.ai/post/blinkai-s-2021-smartphone-consumer-report

The Korea Herald says that CEO Kwon Bong-seok, in a message to staffers, suggested that change was coming. A company official later told the paper that it was “about time for LG to make a cold judgment” about the ailing mobile division. Citing fierce competition in the handset market, the official that LG was looking at “sale, withdrawal and [a] downsizing of the smartphone business.”

Sony mobile department is till in horrible condition despite that they moved their best manager to it.

It is long rumors in the industry that Sony constantly watching how to kill their own smartphone department but is afraid of Samsung who is quickly pushing Sony out of the mobile sensors market.

• Main camera - 1/1.12-inch 50-megapixel GN2 senso
• F/1.95 aperture lens
• 50MP wide, 48MP ultra-wide, 48MP telephoto cameras (last with 5x periscope zoom)
• dual native ISO (first in smartphones)
• Improved HDR
• 8K video recording on all rear cameras
• 6.8-inch 120Hz 1440p OLED display
• Snapdragon 888 processor
• 12GB RAM
• 256GB NAND
• 5,000mAh battery
• Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2
• NFC
• USB Type-C port
• 164,3 × 74,6 × 8,53mm
• 208 g
• EU prices
  • 8/128 GB - 650 EUR
  • 8/256 GB - 685 EUR
  • 12/256 GB - 735 EUR

Specs

• 10-bit QHD+ (3216 x 1440) OLED screen, 1300nits peak brightness
• 120Hz refresh rate
• Snapdragon 888 processor
• Quad-camera array
• 50MP F2.2 Ultra-Wide-Angle Camera with IMX 766 sensor, 110 degrees view, 1 billion colour capture
• 50MP F1.8 Wide-Angle Camera with IMX 766 sensor, 1 billion colour capture, OIS
• 3MP F2.0 MicroLens Camera with up to 60x magnification, FHD video recording
• 13MP F2.4 Telephoto Camera with 1 billion colour capture, 5x Hybrid Optical Zoom, up to 20x digital zoom
• 32MP F2.4 Front Camera
• 4-centimeter macro focus distance
• 4K 10-bit video capture using log and HDR formats
• Video modes
  • 4K (60fps/30fps) can also shoot with stabilization
  • 1080P (60fps/30fps)
  • 720P (60fps/30fps)
  • 1080P (240fps)
  • 720P (480fps)
  • Video zoom: 4K (30fps), 1080P (60fps/30fps), 720P (60fps/30fps)
  • Front Camera supports 1080P/720P (30fps) with stabilization
• BT.2020 color gamut support
• Manual controls for video
• Dual-SIM 5G
• WiFI 6 support
• 2250mAh battery
• 12GB RAM + 256GB ROM
• 6.7" display
• March 30 availability

S21 Ultra

S21 Plus