Move to iPhone to escape server-dependant AI, only to find fancy animations that send you to Google Lens.

https://fxtwitter.com/betaprofiles/status/1849153662364561430

Okay, fair, I'd want to see the user click "Ask" while in airplane mode, don't spank Tim Cook just yet 🙏

Did you know that this thing is a... surprisingly good device?

I experienced S50 Neo (globally known as G85) for ~3 weeks, the black variant in particular, and I can certainly say that it offers top notch ergonomics, a likable panel with likable subpixel rendering and calib, a system that runs surprisingly well despite the SoC and features that actually make sense. The rumors that Moto somehow drifted far apart from AOSP are completely untrue, even on the Chinese system.

It's so good that it's a shame that:
1. The SoC can't hw decode anything beyond 1920x1080 at 60 fps
2. The camera is boring and hosts my personally hated IMX882
3. The global price just sucks (please don't buy it for anything over 200$)

If you buy it for 200$ or less, for whatever reason, just ask your friends to stop sending you 4k videos, and you'll be fine. 😆

To solve it whole, IMS profiles should be at worst as configurable and easy to load like APNs, and at best, actually obey a universal profile available on existing devices. Until it happens, 2G or 3G absolutely has to stay. Australian government and carriers disregard this reality.

https://9to5google.com/2024/11/12/zerocam-zero-process-camera-launches-on-android/

It literally doesn't work. Doesn't even set EDGE_MODE_OFF nor NOISE_REDUCTION_MODE_OFF. If you want something lightweight that does offer these two, stick to Aperture or Open Camera.

Actually, lemme do a quick experiment (no, I can't recommend it, denoising is still extreme)...

So:
1. The app seems to attempt reducing sharpening, despite white haloing visible in viewfinder, I give them that.
2. Either "We shoot in RAW and process your photos to remove all artificial effects, delivering soft, pleasant-to-eye images." is a lie or the app is written by a genius who predicted that instead of 4096x3072 Bayer, the app will receive a 1920x1080 one without breakage (I forced an incorrect sensor mode, API doesn't snitch and returns a corrupted image).
3. The denoising is stock level kind of awful.

As much as I'll stop digging at this point and some of the app behavior is interesting (viewfinder in particular), it disqualifies itself for the purpose of giving you uncooked images. They're not (again, unless the app author is a hidden genius) coming from raw stream and they're denoised much more than needed, more than with NOISE_REDUCTION_MODE_OFF (which is respected by every modern device I know), basically being as bad as stock cameras (or worse).

The not obfuscated "secret sauce". Take note of NOISE_REDUCTION_MODE set to 1, which doesn't stand for OFF, but FAST. Dear dev, at least steal some non-GPL code for YUV stacking if chroma noise is the same kind of enemy as uhhh, something.

Even mere mortals are absolutely NOT SATISFIED

*low effort posting*