Google Pixel 9a's main camera comes from a much more expensive device

22 October 2024
This should result in better quality shots.

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  • 23 Oct 2024

Clearing few things after reading comments mocking Chinese Manufactuing and other things.

Remember, Chinese are the best in skilled cloning/copy-pasting of designed device. India has only started making those. Viets were doing it good but they did it in times when demand was not that high. Chinese are the only ones who are making high quality devices at large scale (those devices are designed by US is a different fact).

and it is good that Pixel is ditching the megapixels odd race and staying close to easier to transfer image-pipeline. It won't be long till we are 'surprised' with 12mp innovational sensor again. This is what Samsung/App/Mobile tech is doing for past few years now - recycling old stuff as new. This is why not even a single 12mp camera flagship device exist now despite 12mp sensors being better in few crucial categories.

And regarding quality, Pixels QC is still not on top. People still experience bugs more than Samsung. They need to capture more market to realize and fix that because 4 people using your phone are not going to tell you the problems they be facing.

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    • 23 Oct 2024

    Isn't Pixel 8a's sensor size is bigger than 9pro fold, 1/1.73" vs 1/2".

      earworm, 23 Oct 2024Kinda wish they'd ditch the ultrawide for a telephoto.... moreOr ditch secondary camera all together, focus the budget on main cakera.

      Move camera to the top left corner and bigger battery.

        and one not made by a Chinese manufacturer, you shouldn't expect top level quality.

        This is top class 😆🤣🤣

          First, improve the manufacturing quality of the devices.
          Then we can talk about it.

            Sam.Smythe, 23 Oct 2024This whole article seems to be written in sarcasm language.... morethis para cleared it all up for me

            "The Pro Fold being a foldable device, and one not made by a Chinese manufacturer, you shouldn't expect top level quality. But still, this should be a better snapper than what the Pixel a line has had before."

            this is top tier stuff lmao

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              jiyen235, 23 Oct 2024The Pixel 8a's 64mp snapper is a run of the mill midra... more>The Pixel 8a's 64mp snapper is a run of the mill midranger main cam. It was used in something like the Galaxy M31 in 2020 and in the A71 in december 2019. It's THAT old.

              quick search says thats wrong
              there are many 64mpx sensors

              the one in the 8a is the sony imx787 which is quite new - not found in the a71 and m31 etc. `
              although another quick search found this
              https://www.threads.net/@shanec.irl/post/DBbmj2yvPkO

              I cant vouch for the veracity of it though.
              it makes no sense though to crop a 1.7" sensor to 2" in the pixel fold and even if you crop it - usually the specs report the original sensor size and the new pixel count. This is what happened with the first 1" phone cameras that were using 1" sensors but sneakily cropped 10% of the sensor because they couldnt make a lens that didnt stick out like a sore thumb.

                The Pixel 8a's 64mp snapper is a run of the mill midranger main cam. It was used in something like the Galaxy M31 in 2020 and in the A71 in december 2019. It's THAT old.

                Google's ditching a 64 MP 1/1.7" old midranger cam for a newer 1/2" 48MP cam. Nice upgrade!

                  pl2rts, 23 Oct 2024Yeah just cause the more expensive device have a trash came... moreThis whole article seems to be written in sarcasm language. When I read that in sarcasm tone, the whole article made sense lol.

                    Yeah just cause the more expensive device have a trash camera dont mean it be better on their a series. But well these words manipulation work well on people. It's like magic with them knowing that the camera is from more expensive device

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                      • 23 Oct 2024

                      Ditching 1/1.76" for 1/2" ?
                      Almost 50% smaller.

                      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

                        Google continues to make weird hardware choices for their phones. I highly doubt samples will look THAT much different from the 8a, but 16MP is a nice resolution bump over 12MP and it's becoming exceedingly rare nowadays considering almost no OEMs are using 64MP quad-bayer sensors for their main cameras anymore.

                          That's a downgrade coming from the 8a!

                            In fact, this is more likely to be a downgrade rather than an upgrade.

                            While the Pixel 8a featured a 64-megapixel camera with a 1/1.73-inch sensor size, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold is equipped with a 48-megapixel camera with a sensor size of only 1/2-inch.

                              The 48 MP sensor of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold is small in 2024 standards, it's also smaller than the 64 MP sensor of the Pixel 8a, why should we be impressed?

                                How is this better? It's the same sensor from last year but cropped to a smaller size.

                                  Kinda wish they'd ditch the ultrawide for a telephoto. If you're only gonna give us two cameras I'd prefer that one.

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