Hot take on the PH-1

Kinja'd!!! by "Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
Published 12/21/2017 at 14:01

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Its got a shitty camera, at least compared to the Nexus

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I ended up installing the open camera app because the default one makes it unbelievably slow and ends up taking shaky pictures.


Replies (14)

Kinja'd!!! "PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
12/21/2017 at 14:07, STARS: 0

Which Nexus are we comparing to? The 6, 5x, 6p?

Kinja'd!!! "Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
12/21/2017 at 14:11, STARS: 0

6p... And even that one didn’t have a benchmark of a camera!

This one has a dual lense but I can’t understand why it takes pictures so weirdly

Kinja'd!!! "PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
12/21/2017 at 14:14, STARS: 0

I think you can drop it to mono so it won’t do the hyper-focus with cloudy background stuff.

Kinja'd!!! "Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
12/21/2017 at 14:17, STARS: 0

Do you have all the updates installed? I thought they had at least attempted to make improvements to the stock camera app.

Kinja'd!!! "404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
12/21/2017 at 14:24, STARS: 2

I think people say it massively improves if you install the Google HDR+ camera on it. There’s an APK floating somewhere on XDA.

Kinja'd!!! "ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability" (italianjobr53)
12/21/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 0

I missed your original post

How is the new Essential phone compared to a 6p? I had a 5x

I’m using a LG G5 which is much the same, but with expandable storage

Kinja'd!!! "Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
12/21/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0

I do have the phone up to date

Kinja'd!!! "Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
12/21/2017 at 14:29, STARS: 1

Im still getting used to it! Its funny because it basically has no vessel, so its the size of an Iphone 6s but has as much screen as the 6P

Kinja'd!!! "ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability" (italianjobr53)
12/21/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 0

I kinda dont like the bezel-less phones. I’m too afraid I’ll drop them

Kinja'd!!! "Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
12/21/2017 at 14:33, STARS: 0

Well, I see your point... The nexus already had a very thin vessel on the sides and the protection covers always snapped off!

Kinja'd!!! "ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability" (italianjobr53)
12/21/2017 at 14:35, STARS: 0

Yeah, it doesn’t help that I don’t put any phone cover or screen guard on the phone.

Kinja'd!!! "Rico" (ricorich)
12/21/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0

Lol why would that even be necessary

Kinja'd!!! "Rico" (ricorich)
12/21/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0

No surprise to me

Kinja'd!!! "404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
12/21/2017 at 19:43, STARS: 0

Because hardware on a phone camera is only half the equation. e.g. KEYone and the Pixel both share the same Sony sensor, but BlackBerry’s software is shit compared to Google’s optimizations.