Oh, again

I initially thought it's about Samsung, but it couldn't be. It's the non-2022 Oppo A57. Now it makes sense.

https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/reviews/25/google-pixel-10-pro-xl/camera/gsmarena_024.jpg

Next step for AI-assisted zoom: make the fake license plates realistic by looking up the current location of user.

https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/reviews/25/google-pixel-10-pro-xl/camera/gsmarena_022.jpg

Currently it even struggles with buildings, something well known for straight shapes. Wouldn't be surprised if they're feeding a jpeg to the algo instead of raw, since the jpeg samples already exhibit worm-like shapes that shouldn't be there.

https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_128_google_debuts_device_bound_session_credentials_against_session_hijacking

Google came out with a mostly cool idea that can eventually turn into a nuisance and impossibility of backing up your logged in sessions (in worst case scenario, as web seems much less vulnerable to monopoly than embedded hardware). From the look of it, currently a TPM whitelist isn't a part of the standard and I've seen none of such plans.

Keep in mind: TrustZone, TPMs and hardware authentication devices are a genuinely cool thing that can save your ass. But whitelists of what third party entities consider as accepted are never right and will prevent you from making improvements or tradeoffs you deem acceptable. We shouldn't need vulnerabilities for capabilities.

Watch DBSC with caution.

Being GMS-less and PIA-failing may force you to buy premium to create an account

*create an account or login (without an existing session/bound mail to avoid SMS)

From the good-to-end-user news, yes, Pixel 10 Pro exposed DCG (dual conversion gain) sensor mode, oddly enough as RAW_SENSOR rather than RAW12 (no quality difference, it's linear Bayer 12-bit at 12.5MP, but a difference for handling data on app side). This will make it much easier to spot regressions done in post processing, compared to sensor's own capabilities.
Contrary to general presumption, yes, smartphone photography is mostly software-defined, but in the opposite sense – software is what mostly degrades it, since a single frame raw (especially with DCG) can often look better than a stacked result ruined by post processing. Stacking is great, but you know. Yes, the raw video with zero denoising recorded from main cam will now look dope. No, gcam doesn't support raw video.

In other words, if you shoot (especially in daylight) a raw in Open Camera and import it to Lightroom Mobile, you're likely to be able to get a better result than stacked stock gcam jpeg. Gcam raws will probably be better than single frame, but Google is known from messing with them in recent years.
Tldr: P10P is now pretty good for non-computational photography without mods as long as you shoot raws.

If someone looks for greatest non-computational photography *with mods*, find something with OV50K or LYT-828, but first figure out how to unlock bootloader... (Yes, I'm temporarily main-camera-centric for the sake of these 3 messages, please never ignore telephoto)

There's a dude on Reddit who must've never read this pdf nor anything remotely similar and insists that DCG is staggered, it's such a weird conspiracy hill to die on. Both DCG and staggered slow down the rolling shutter relatively to same clock utilized on normal mode, but DCG in comparison to staggered isn't affected by ghosting and requires no alignment. Big cameras started to catch up and you may find it at a name like DGO. But yes, for a matter of fact, most of the time you won't see DCG in stock camera apps, OEMs prefer staggered, DCG being exposed to 3p apps is an even rarer exception.

https://i.imgur.com/EkqnsEY.jpeg
If somehow the person behind this comparison happens to read this, just slide chroma denoising to zero. That's not how the raw looks. Incorrect noise profile in dng metadata will give you color leaks and hunting for SNR with any kind of denoising applied in an image editor or viewer is besides the point.

There's a certain quote by a certain disgraced historical person about repeating lies. Now that we have the professional lying machine, we get to see it function as a both way to make them and consume them. Isn't it great?!

If this slop happens to reach the wrong people and affect the market, the people of Türkiye know who to blame for the original AI slop post that started it all once their factory ROMs with provisioning capabilities won't be flashable anymore to help them skip the humongous IMEI tax :(

https://www.androidauthority.com/sony-xperia-monitor-and-control-camera-3593061/

Looks like Sony is completely uninterested in one thing their mobile branch really needs, which is reputation.