iPhone X vs. Samsung Note 8
Two big flagship devices, two big price tags: with the introduction of iPhone X, Apple now has a horse in the `all screen, all the time` smartphone race. Here`s a breakdown of the specs with particular attention to the things that really matter - at least to people who prioritize photography features.
Dual cameras
You`d expect no less in the year 2017: each of these devices has a dual camera module. Both use two 12MP sensors with apertures as listed below.
iPhone X
Note 8
Wide-angle
F1.8
F1.7
Telephoto
F2.4
F2.4
It`s welcome news that both of these dual cam units are dual-stabilized, meaning the wide and telephoto lenses offer optical image stabilization. The iPhone 7 Plus was only equipped with OIS in its wide-angle lens.
The Note 8 offers 26mm and 52mm equivalent focal lengths, and if the iPhone X is consistent with the 7 Plus, it will come with a 28/56mm combo. The Note 8`s ever-so-slightly wider view of the world may have some advantages, but that depends on your preferences.
The 12MP sensors used by the Note 8 measure 1/2.55` in the wide-angle unit and 1/3.6` in the tele lens. Apple doesn`t specify what size sensors it uses in the X, just that they`re bigger, faster, and have deeper pixels than what was used in the 7 Plus. Relatively speaking, a slightly larger smartphone image sensor is still pretty small. Even if they are bigger than the Note 8`s sensors, that`s likely to have less of an impact than improvements in image processing and camera software.
Still shooting features
Apple and Samsung put their devices` depth-of-simulation modes front and center among camera features. It`s called Portrait Mode on the iPhone X and Live Focus on the Note 8, but they do the same thing: use information collected from the dual cam to create a depth map of the scene and blur the background.
Samsung lets users specify the amount of blur, while the Apple stic ...
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