Photography remains ones of the primary considerations for a large contingent of smartphone consumers. Along with battery life and display quality, smartphone consumers in virtually every market segment consistently rank camera/photo quality high on their short list of “must-haves” when shopping for a new device. This is one of the reasons the camera arrays integrated into almost every new generation of smartphone is upgraded or augmented in some significant way versus its predecessors. This is especially true of Android devices, which have received innovative camera updates in recent years. As such, it is now common for even mainstream Android devices to have multiple purpose-built shooters, with many features borrowed from professional camera systems, like phase-detect autofocus and optical image stabilization. Today’s smartphones also have unmatched computational photography capabilities, thanks to processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile platform, which has a significant amount of silicon resources dedicated specifically for image and video processing.
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