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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 39 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Some Chinese phones are interesting. I particularly like the ones with lofic camera sensors, or crazy attachable lens modules, but there are all sorts of niche devices.

What made them boring is the homogeneity. Like aliens designed them, have no idea what an actual human would want, but know they have to build one bland universal thing for everyone.

That's not aliens, just plain old capitalism. Once you're maximise the target audience enough, you end up with things that are supposed to work for everybody, but nobody likes

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I wish chinese phones were easy to unlock and flash with custom roms. Sadly you need to install a closed source windows based app with root permissions to unlock most of them if even possible at all.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

I want the Xaomi 18 Pro Max pretty hard. I record a fair bit of selfie video so being able to use the back camera for that with the preview screen would be dope.

The LG Wing is also my favorite phone of all time. I like fun phones. Unfortunately, fun phones don't really seem to sell very well.

The LG Wing is also my favorite phone

Ooh, it's 2 phones stuck together!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

For selfies, have you considered a pocketable gimbal cam instead?

They're getting ridiclously good. The DJI 4P in particular has more dynamic range than most cinema cameras: https://www.cined.com/dji-osmo-pocket-4p-lab-test-rolling-shutter-dynamic-range-and-exposure-latitude/

...This is better than the results we got for the current leader in terms of dynamic range, the ARRI Alexa 35 (and, there is a factor of 100x in price between the two).

That, plus a gimble, means its basically better than any near-term phone. I'd already have one, but... TBH, I don't really do selfies.

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

How big are your pockets?

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The specific weird use case is making a quick short vertical video on my walk that I just upload without editing from my phone while still on the walk. They're companions containing BTS and whatnot to my high-effort long-form videos where I do use different cameras. The whole point is that it's low effort and low friction for me.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Gimbal cams (and many mirrorless cameras these days) auto-transfer recordings to the phone, so it should be nearly as frictionless as a phone recording.

And gimbals are great for walking in particular, as they stabilize footage in a way a phone (and most ILCs) simply can’t.

It does sound like it’d be overkill though.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeahhhh, but auto-transfer would be annoying when I record 1TB+ of footage for a long-form video. I'd have to manually transfer, which is an extra step, and I'm not interested in that haha.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

…You record 1TB+ of footage on your phone?

Well, IDK about your workload then, heh. But those pocket cams do record to microSD cards, FYI.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

No, when I'm filming the long format videos I get TBs on my cameras. I have an Insta360 Ace Pro II and X4. If I had them automatically dumping to my phone for the daily walks I record, I'd have to turn that feature off for the long form stuff so it doesn't fill up my phone's storage. If I got one of them famcy gimbal cameras, I'd definitely want to use it for the long-form stuff as well 'cause I know they can look really damn good.

[–] Geodes_n_Gems@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Xaomi 18 Pro Max, while with a really weird name looks really beautiful & sleek, it's like the optimistic future frutiger aero phone, if I HAD to pick a smart phone & I had a thousand pounds to spare it would probably be that.

But I don't find the LG Wing appealing personally based on a glance, the screen thing just feels bloaty, I don't see the milage you can get out of it.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

As for the Wing, I don't think another phone (aside from foldables) allows you to run 3 apps at once. It's great for multitasking. I often watch a video on one screen while texting on another. It's just great.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Squints.

...I thought that looked silly at first, but that's actually not a bad design. Its way more practical than Apple's foldable for sure.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Calling it Apples foldable when foldables have been made for years is weird but yeah. It was great.