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Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever. (www.androidcentral.com)
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Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.

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[โ€“] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if showing pictures from your phone on a big screen is something you do so often that your phone absolutely has to do that and do it flawlessly, then yeah, I guess a midrange phone is not for you. But that's such a specific requirement, I can't exactly blame a company like Fairphone for not catering to those needs.

[โ€“] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What do you use a camera for? If itโ€™s only for scanning QR codes or whatever, fine. But if these are the photos that you take as memories of events in your life, why would you be content with them being grainy and low quality? I suppose itโ€™s a question of what youโ€™re used to.

[โ€“] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Most of my childhood memories have been saved on grainy, imperfect pictures and, yeah, I'm content with that and cherish them all the same (probably even more so, because that reflects the time in which they were made). If I want high-resolution photographs of something, I use a proper camera, but there's really nothing about "high-resolution" that implies "treasured memory" to me or vice versa.

Considering that even a midrange smartphone today is leaps ahead of "real" cameras from the past, I guess a different way to phrase your question is "Am I content to have my memories preserved with the image quality of a camera from 20 years ago?". And the answer to that would be a clear "yes". But to each their own.

[โ€“] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

My compact camera from more than 20 years ago took/takes pictures that are a lot better than the midrange cameras Iโ€™ve tried recently. The resolution in megapixels is higher in newer phone cameras, but that is not the same thing as quality. I really do not agree with midrange phones being leaps ahead. With good lighting they might be on a similar level.