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kakaciktoday at 1:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

A quick question from potential buyer of next generation of pixel phones, since samsung keeps disappointing hard with their top line - is there any difference in quality between default photo app and what graphene os bundles with?

Pixel are supposed to be very good in photography, part hardware and part software, and my concern would be degradation of that software part. With small kids, there is nothing more important on phone for me than photos/video quality these days (apart from never going into apple ecosystem, I am just incompatible with that company' philosophy).

Or its just about slapping some commercial photo app (like I heard from other photographers is often done on apple to get most out of it, but forgot the name of the app) and not caring about this?


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gunapologist99today at 2:03 PM

Yes, it's a huge difference. However, you can install the very latest Google Camera app through the Aurora app (or Play Market), and it works perfectly except you don't get photo preview within that app; to fix that minor issue, you can install the Gphotoshim which someone else mentioned in the comments.

On the other hand, if you switch to the latest Google camera app, you will not really be participating in making the open source version better.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

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FullMetalBitchtoday at 2:35 PM

If photos are important for you GCam is a must, you can download it