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The lens, sensor and image-processing stacks phone makers compete on, including selfie and under-display cameras.
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo opens for preorder today with camera features meant to get the photographer into the group shot. The camera drops the telephoto lens and the Pro video formats, so the fit depends on what the buyer shoots.
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Apple's iPhone Duo costs $1,999 and has no telephoto lens or variable aperture, Engadget reports. Whether its outer-screen camera modes make up for that depends on what the buyer actually shoots.
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Apple says the Duo's outer and inner displays share one aspect ratio, which spares app teams the reflow pass other foldables demand. The same phone has no Face ID, so the unlock prompt is where users meet the change.
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Honor will sell the X5d s, a 2,499-rand (about $150) phone with a 2.01-inch rear touchscreen, in South Africa from Oct. 7. The second screen is mostly useful as a viewfinder for rear-camera selfies, on a phone that is entry-level everywhere else.
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Vivo is taking its X Fold 6, a foldable with a 200MP main camera and a 6,900mAh battery, to buyers outside China. No US release is expected, so everyone who gets to test Vivo's case for a camera-first foldable will be in other markets.
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The Pixel 11 exclusive alters processing rather than stamping on a filter, per 9to5Google. Ten looks, eight sliders, and three older Pixel generations left outside.
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People inside Apple who have used the rumored iPhone Ultra reportedly liked the pocket fit, the hinge and the layouts. The reported spec list explains what is missing from that praise.
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The Signature 27 gets Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, but the specifications Motorola chose to publish are a 200MP periscope telephoto, a bigger vapor chamber and seven years of updates.
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MacRumors puts the iPhone 18 Pro main camera's range at f/1.48 to f/4.0 in four steps, with manual selection three taps deep and only the widest of those steps gathering more light than last year's fixed f/1.78.
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Apple put real aperture blades in the Pro and Pro Max and priced them at $1,199 and $1,299. CNET's reviewer loves the camera and still sends most buyers to last year's iPhone 17 at $929.
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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 with the same A20 Pro chip as the iPhone 18 Pro, a rear camera Apple branded Dual Fusion instead of Pro Fusion, Touch ID in place of Face ID, and a 7.6-inch inner display no other iPhone has.
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TechRadar puts the generation's biggest gain in the camera, where four selectable apertures and Pro controls pay off for anyone who takes charge of a shot, while the new chip felt level with last year's.
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Reference Image has the iPhone 18 Pro sensor sign raw pixels inside the Secure Enclave, and Apple keeps verification on its own servers while Google, Leica, Sony and Canon sign with the open C2PA standard.
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Apple's stock camera app picks up controls that used to mean buying a third-party app. On the f-numbers 9to5Mac prints, the wider aperture buys about half a stop of light, and the sensor behind it is unchanged.
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MobileSyrup's hands-on with the iPhone Duo describes a phone thicker folded than its rivals and still familiar to hold, with the interesting decisions sitting in iOS layout rules rather than in the hinge. Review units are not out.
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