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The dual camera smartphone setup has become pretty popular over the past year. One of the first major devices to include the setup was the HTC One M8 and that camera got mixed reviews. Most of the negative reviews of the camera came from reviewers who got the phone early with preproduction...

We already know that DXOmark has rated the Pixel camera 89 which is the highest rating a cell phone camera has ever received. We also know that the camera has no OIS and that stabilization comes from the use of the gyroscope. Normally the lack of OIS would mean that many of your images would be...

DXOMark has been an industry leader in camera bench marking for quite some time. They have always been a reliable source of dslr and cell phone camera testing. According to them the new camera on the Pixel and Pixel XL is the best smartphone camera they have ever seen. The Pixel camera gets a...

Google released the final preview build of Android Nougat a few weeks back. One of the main features in Preview Build 5 was the new and improved Google Camera. The update brings the camera version to 4.1. The first thing you will notice in the updated camera is a list of new UI tweaks and...

I really want to love the HTC 10. This is the first HTC phone I have really been excited about in more than a few years. Don't get me wrong I love HTC. The first smartphone I ever used was an HTC Touch. It's just the last several devices they have released have just been sort of ho hum. The...

A cell phone is a private place much like a purse or wallet. On your phone you have all kinds of sensitive and private info like credit card and financial information. You likely also have personal private conversations and photos. In many cases the things on your phone are for your eyes only...

The unlocked version of the HTC 10 has already received an update. The update brings the build up to 1.53.617.5. This is still Android Marshmallow and is not really a major update but does bring some important fixes. The camera has been improved and the performance of the camera should be much...

It has been awhile, but HTC finally has a best in class camera again! The past few flagships have lost focus when it comes to the camera department. HTC chose to gamble with fancy features like a dual camera with added depth in photos, or replacing Megapixels with a fourth as many Ultra Pixels...

My earlier Galaxy S7 Edge camera observations were unmerited according to DxOMark who has named the Galaxy S7 Edge camera the best Smartphone camera ever! I took some shots in low light settings last week. The shots I took had much more grain than I would have liked to see. Shots were very good...

Is it just me or does the Galaxy S7 perform poorly in low light? Most of the photos I take in low light are super grainy with lots of noise. This is very disappointing as Samsung advertises the camera as a "Low-light camera". Samsung says an f1.7 aperture lens with larger 1.4ultra micron pixels...

In the above video above the Galaxy S7 camera is tested against the Canon EOS 70D. The guy who put this together may look a bit silly, I mean try not to laugh, but this is actually a pretty great way to demonstrate the GS7's AF capabilities. Unsurprisingly the Galaxy S7 holds its own against one...

Xiaomi just announced the Mi5 at Mobile World Congress. This is a phone we expected to release around the time of CES, but Xiaomi said they wouldn't release it until it was perfect. This is a behemoth of a device for under $400. To bad we will likely not see it in the US any time soon. This...

Xiaomi's latest flagship will be ready for release later this month. Xiaomi's CEO stated late last year that he would rather be late with a perfect product than on time with a sub par product. While we are expecting a premium metal design it looks like we can also expect a pretty great camera...

Not everyone is in the market for the latest and greatest flagship device. Tech addicts like me are in an endless cycle of buying and selling phones just to keep up with the latest gadgets. Some more sensible folks are just interested in having a high quality phone that works well and is...

This one has a touch more of a personal interest than others. I try to pack as lightly as possible for these conventions, because Scoliosis and Back Pain are actually common issues for Camera Operators (granted this mostly happens to the more intense outlets that still pack around the huge...

The Nexus 5X has to be one of the best budget phones of the year. It is just really hard to beat stock Android. The only thing you may find lacking if coming from a skinned version of Android is the lack of features in the stock Google camera. The Google Camera is pretty simple but gets the job...

Many Android devices are beginning to ship with Timelapse and slow mo features. If you are still rocking an older device you may not have these features. You could always just shoot super long videos and then go speed them up on your PC with some editing software, but if you need the video for a...

The Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X were just launched in India today. Several news outlets received units and immediately began to upload video tests for us to examine. The camera was a huge selling point in Google's announcement. Google was mainly touting low light performance. The new Sony 1.55 micron...

The Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X each have a pretty awesome camera. The specs of the Nexus 6P more than likely mean slightly better camera performance on the 6P, but still this camera is a game changer at this price point. The show stopper of this camera is the Sony built 1.55 micron sensor which...

Pdf format allows for meta data, but all the scanner apps I have seen use ocr only as a separate entity. Google Drive scanner makes ocr data available to Google search but it is not bound to the pdf file independently. Anyone know of a page scanner that makes a truly searchable pdf file that...