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RX100? LX10? LX100?
There _are_ pocketable cameras out there with a more decent-sized sensor than a 1/3"-1/2" and half-decent optics.

You have been notified that several media outlets have reported on this. It has also been covered in the IT security sector. Your being ignorant of information does not make your opinion the ...

"Don't buy the phone with the 'best camera,'
buy the phone you like as a phone." WHY?

First of all, this is DPR, not GSMarena. The ONE reason we even speak of smartphones on here is the CAMERA....

I can see how easy it is to think, and to say that.
But once you've tried a dslr/milc, you understand the difference.

@Goggs why would you want it as thin as a phone?
That only means you are limited in optics like a smartphone.
It would be all the limitations of a smartphone, without the versatility.
Dumbest...

Samsung tried. It was the NX something based on Android.
And nobody wanted it. I thought it was a pretty stupid idea myself.
Everyone was joking how you'd have to wait for it to update before...

Sad but true.

Why are you even arguing this?  It's been explained in a post that they may not necessarily divulge everything, so as not to give away their methods of finding out. I don't know what more I can do ...

After extensive research into phones, and pixel-peeping image-quality comparisons, I have settled on Huawei's 12MP sensors. These are in the Honor 8, Mate 9, P9. In the generation after that, the ...

Do any of these apps allow you to take pictures with only the monochrome sensor,
on phones such as the Moto G5S Plus or the Honor 8?

(more specifically the G5S Plus, as a firmware update on the...

"The lack of optical image stabilization should be made up for by large pixels with a size of 1.55 microns"
Really? How does less wasted space on the sensor stabilize your image?
Especially when...

@DPR
Why are they hush on the pixel (photosites') size on the main camera, only mentioning that of the secondary one?
How are we supposed to compare when different parameters of measurement are...

Do you have security clearance for that?  Surely you understand that some revelations will also divulge the methods and techniques used, something they may want to keep under wraps.  Or simply not ...

I've heard of people talking about 3rd party apps to better use the camera in their cellphones. Does anyone know of such an app what works with the Honor8, or better yet, have experience using one ...

But it WAS "headlines in the news" !

I just think that there is even more cause for concern, when all of the security entities have flagged it. And I am certain that they know about this in Europe too... they might not have made it ...

Yes, good point. Except that the 170 other countries do not have the capability to even find out about this stuff. And with Google, you at least know what they do with it. They have a ToS, and it ...

Yeah, except the H has the most interesting camera controls, and the best image quality... sure is tempting! There surely must be something about user data collection that is being flagged... ...

you're right. I need to learn to not argue with ...
it only gets you mobbed

I almost made a very bad mistake (again). First time was the Honor 8, now the G5S Plus. Criteria: (let me just reiterate that) (1) Have a monochrome sensor with a true monochrome mode