S20+ Tele Image Resolution is Fake - Only a 1X Optical Lens!
- By consultant
- Smartphones
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I don't take the DXO Scores as the Bible of Camera ratings, but I find it useful as an information source for relative comparisons between devices. A lot of phone users, especially the younger generation, tends to get very caught up in spec numbers and ratings. Very few people actually fork out $1000 for a new phone. They just pay their monthly fee to cover their service and phone payment and pay $1500 for the phone over 2 years.
These same people might take a DXO score of 120 compared to 116 as an indication the 120 phone is significantly superior to justify in their mind the reason they should upgrade, when in reality the average user wouldn't tell any difference. It reminds me when digital camera sensors started advertising more and more megapixels. The buyer going into Best Buy gravitated towards the camera with more MP, "more is better" is the general way people think and the manufacturers gear their designs and marketing towards that. Later, people digging deeper come to find out, in most cases, more megapixels = more noise. The latest marketing spec hype is the 120hz screen refresh rate in phones and the talk that "oh no, the new iPhone is still only 60hz!" And you go onto YouTube and find all these comparison videos where they have to show the comparison with the video shot at 120fps and slowed down to 1/4 the normal speed to see the difference and talk about how much more "buttery smooth" the phone is! (Umm reality doesn't happen at 1/4 speed.) In most cases, the user would be happier if they left the phone at 60Hz and gained an extra hour of battery life. LOL. But 120hz sounds better than 60hz. More is better.
These same people might take a DXO score of 120 compared to 116 as an indication the 120 phone is significantly superior to justify in their mind the reason they should upgrade, when in reality the average user wouldn't tell any difference. It reminds me when digital camera sensors started advertising more and more megapixels. The buyer going into Best Buy gravitated towards the camera with more MP, "more is better" is the general way people think and the manufacturers gear their designs and marketing towards that. Later, people digging deeper come to find out, in most cases, more megapixels = more noise. The latest marketing spec hype is the 120hz screen refresh rate in phones and the talk that "oh no, the new iPhone is still only 60hz!" And you go onto YouTube and find all these comparison videos where they have to show the comparison with the video shot at 120fps and slowed down to 1/4 the normal speed to see the difference and talk about how much more "buttery smooth" the phone is! (Umm reality doesn't happen at 1/4 speed.) In most cases, the user would be happier if they left the phone at 60Hz and gained an extra hour of battery life. LOL. But 120hz sounds better than 60hz. More is better.