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Pixel 5 new camera software coming?

Started Sep 20, 2020 | Discussions thread
DigiPainter Regular Member • Posts: 301
Re: No significant improvement in image quality.

Brian Mosley wrote:

Portraits with night sight will be nice, but otherwise we'll need to see an upgrade in hardware for a future pixel to be worth an upgrade.

Hope that helps.

100% agree, see my above post.

It is sad that Google released yet another phone with the old sony imx363.
I can live with a major downgrade in processor, the 765 instead of an 865, because the price is much lower than before. But there are too many competitors at half the price with the 765 and much better sensors who can use the gcam 7 and even 8 software. 
IMO Oyxgen OS on my Nord is even better than native android on my Pixel, so that doesnt justify twice the price either.
One thing they did with the 5 is increase the screen refresh to 90hz, but that is the same on the Nord, in fact I enjoy its screen the most of any screen so far.
I cannot wait to try the iPhone Mini, as I enjoy small screen phones. The apple camera software is better than Gcam imo. And it is priced the same as the Pixel, so I can see the Pixel yet again failing. Google to a HORRIBLE job at optimising batteries, luckily this is the main feature of the 765 SoC, but I bet there is no effort from a software perspective by google. Google I guess can afford to keep making mediocre phones for premium prices, but I wish they would try to make something decent for the price.
This is SURELY the last we will see of the IMX363 and as you said they will use a newer, bigger sensor like the imx700 used in the P40 Pro.

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