Samsung Galaxy S30 could crush iPhone 12 with 150MP camera
I think they need to work on the camera software instead of increasing the megapixels
I love this.
The S20 is less than a week old and they are banging on about the next.
Although I would have thought it would be S21 not S30.
Megapixel count is useless. 150MP could be no better than 25MP, and possibly worse.
However, I’m excited about the 1" sensor. THIS is a big deal.
Hey I am not a camera geek, help me understand why 1" sensor is important. Better low light photo?
In addition to being better in low light, they perform better overall. Less noise. Better depth of field.
Larger sensor means they can capture more light. Photography is all about capturing light.
Why not buy an actual camera? Surely at these prices …
Actual cameras don’t have Angry Birds. Or Candy Crush.
I can usually snag a deal on new phones bringing them down to about 1/2 price. It’s about being smart and waiting.
Throw on my trade in value on top of that, and I usually pay about 1/4 price (or Less) in cash.
Right so when the S20 successor comes out then the S20 is on your radar, for example.
I thought the same, guess in 10 years we will have the Galaxy S100 lol
You think so? I see an inversion overdue.
So I got a PDA and a dumb data phone in the 90s and then these began to converge so I got into smartphones with the likes of the Treo, spending more and more to get a mini computer in my pocket. So these were my equivalent of the S20 in their day.
I then got a laptop and jumped off the smartphone and went back to a dumb phone, as you dont need power in two devices.
My laptop from 1999 was so good, about the same cost as the leading smartphones of the era, it was still useful 20 years later.
Then with Android you could get a good cheap minicomputer for $300 and so jumped back on smartphones but the prices been creeping up so now $1000 phones and so its got ridiculous again. A phone cannot replace a laptop but a laptop can replace a phone.
So I think we will see a regression into lower cost phones as a phone which has a very high performance but has to be throttled due to the small size is a waste of money. Either the phone is your hub and you stop having laptops, so the Nexdock or similar idea, or you get all you need in last generation phone and its a race to the bottom in phones.
I agree with this:
So if you think, say, the S20 is good, then that is still true in a year so buy the S20 in a year at half the price, or 2 years from now for quarter of the price, and put money into a laptop which always can do more than a phone.
I have a 3-4 year old phone kept as a spare for when anyone’s phone dies while they wait for a new one, and it is stil so good I really struggling with the idea of buying a new phone.
If you spend $500-$600 say on this
Which can do more than a phone, why pay $1000 for a lesser device? No you’d want to pay less for less so back to the $300 phone.
Or in different words, either someone who bought the S20 today hates it as it doesnt have some feature, or they love it and so that means its good enough which will be still true in a year or two.
I remember the Nokoa Communicator, it passed me by as around that time i think i was into the Psion range of organisers which really liked.
In regards to the phone the later is my mentality.
I can’t bare to buy an old model but I’m normally happy to keep it for 2-4 years depending on how far the new models have progressed.
I’m still pretty impressed with the S20 and not bored of it yet.
I’m getting my head into Android settings and the options available which is good and makes me feel like i have a really new phone - had iOS for 6ish years and felt things were a bit samey, not doubt just like those who have used Android for a few years.
The Psion, I had the 3, 3a, 3c, Revo. The Internet was beginning to take over around mid/late 90s, dial-up. Mobile version was a Nokia datacard adapter to your phone. You connected these 4 things:
And you got about 2400bps.
So clunky but it got you online, but once laptops got decent battery life the PDA idea fell away.
So that S20 you have now, expensive, but it should probably do you 3-4 years but the item which makes it useless is the battery, so if they made batteries serviceable replacement then the cost per day becomes really low.
My 2018 phone I intend to have a go at replacing battery, and if it works, then keep it 1-2 years more.
But this last week I been using my $300 Huawei 8.4" LTE tablet, I can type using two thumbs walking and put in jacket pocket.
Typed on my 6 year old Lenovo laptop, it was the employer’s property it’s specs got too low for the new security software so they let me keep it, so long as I wiped the software, put Linux on it and replaced keyboard and battery and works perfectly fine.
I was thinking of doing a social help of getting old laptops and put Linux on them an renew them to be a reasonable device for people who need to isolate.