Xiaomi 17 Ultra packs a 1-inch sensor, 200MP periscope telephoto, and a 6,800mAh battery
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But at what cost?
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Im referring to tracking :::
There's not a single phone out there that doesn't track you. You can only choose who is tracking you.
Pixels with Grapheneos don't. So there IS a choice. Hopefully soon more.
Yeah, there are niche scenarios where tracking is minimal. But for the majority of phones you can buy, you will be tracked by someone.
People who care don't buy hardware which tracks them. It is an option.
Most people don't care, and even don't know enough to care.
You can also stand your ground and refuse to buy till the option is available
Problem is, that you kind of have to have a phone nowadays to take part in society.
I don't see how it's true. It might be more inconvenient, that's all.
Its beyond inconvinient. My work requires a login app which works only on android. Plus, Whatsapp for co-ordination, planning and allocation. If you do not have one. You cannot work at all.
I also have a number of mandated programs on my work phone. But work makes no demands that I need to buy a smartphone. In private life there is even no demand to have a voice line, just a physical address.
Putting aside the login app. The downside would be less networking, connections, and job finding if you do not have a smartphone and WhatsApp. Not to mention digital payments, banking, tickets for trains, bus, etc,. Unless, you want to lose time and be in a queue everywhere.
Depends on the country you're from and a lot of other factors.
It only does eather if the phone vendor is an asshole who decided that you don't own your phone or you are lazy and don't install a custom ROM
Also, some vendors don't track by default, such as volla, pine, purism, Sony and fairphone
Sony and Fairphone install standard Google services that definitely track you without asking.
You could just unlock the bootloader and install a GSI. Problem solved. That's why I still buy Xiaomi phones, because they have great hardware and software freedom'ish
They have always had great hardware, just terrible software so it really is not worth it
What does this 1-inch refer to?
Cause if it is the diagonal, it would be a bigger sensor than the one in my bulky M4/3 camera.
It's just the name of the sensor (also called type 1 sensors) 1 inch refers to the diameter in the equivalent old CRT video cameras
So some numerical trick like the nm values of chip technology or the given size of harddiscs. Somehow expected something like that.
I looked it up, according to wikipedia a 1" sensor is 13.2 x 8.8 mm² which would be 0.63" diagonally.
Still impressive, but deception nonetheless...
It's so old it's not really a deception to optics/film nerds (even digital camera nerds), it's just a type more related to sharpness/use of the sensor.
A lot of such measurements relate to the film norm being 35mm (like, the 200MP periscope lens & sensor in this phone has a 300nm focal length, the sensor being a 1/1.4" type sensor instead of the 1/1 like the main camera).
The size is usually given per pixel 1.6 µm in this case (8120 x 6180) for the main sensor.
So what's the real dimensions of the thing?
Why can't xiomi give us a kinux phone. Just guve devs what they need to write drivers.