Wow this is a big deal for me. Anyone who has tried and failed to get many usable shots of their little ones, esp indoors I must add, will appreciate this. Not only are you struggling with the slow shutter speed and camera shake, you are hit with out-of-focus subjects.
Ok I know you must be thinking: "late to the party...again!"
When I initially heard about it, I thought someone has mixed up "Face detection" with "Phase detection" and verbally they do sound the same. And I had discounted the possibility of squeezing in a phase detector into that ever thinner supermodel bodies:)
I didn't know this until last week (I had forgotten until I said it out loud to a friend) that there are two kinds of phase detection AF. One involves a separate phase detector unit used in SLR when the mirror is down; and one that involves a few of the sensor's pixel, recently added to Samsung Galaxy S5 and earlier Canon 70D in movie mode when the mirror is locked. Apple has aptly termed it "FocusPixels" and I can't wait to test it out. I can imagine this teamed up with the Optical Image Stabiliser will make the iPhone 6 Plus even more popular than an iPad as a tourist camera of choice!
So while I initially was underwhelmed by the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launches, I've slowly changed my mind and getting more and more eager with anticipation. The spec really wasn't very inspiring. Dual core 1.4GHz CPU and the "same" f/2.2 lens and 8MP 1.5µm sensor certainly invited plenty of abuse from Samsung fans and fandroids in general. I expect the hex core GPU to be the trump card and given how much of a smartphone is actually graphics and media and how much dedicated graphics hardware are packed into the A8 to serve those, I can imagine Apple is quietly confident about the user responses come Friday.
4 million phones in 24 hour points to about 12-13 million units over the first weekend. That should be a cool $ix BEELION profit for shareholders and add a few fraction of basis point to the 10 countries' GDP figures!
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