With the release of Android 11, screen recording has become a native feature of any new Android or Android-based smartphone without the need for a third-party app. However, Xiaomi was ahead of that when they added it to their MIUI 8.0 operating system. That being...
Screen recording is very useful for capturing and sharing things such as gameplay, tutorials, video calls and so on. Thankfully, Apple has made it easy to screen record on their iPhones. Since iOS 11 (released 2017), the iPhone has had a native screen recording...
Screen recording has not always been a built-in feature of the Android operating system. But with the release of Android 11, it’s now available on any new Android phone. No need for a third-party app! However, if your phone doesn’t run on Android 11 or above, chances...
If you’re interested in taking up mobile photography as a hobby or you are just curious about it, you may have seen a number of lenses made specifically for smartphone cameras being marketed all over the internet. If you know nothing about smartphone lenses, you may...
A big part of quality photography is getting the focus right. Missing the focus even slightly can turn a potentially great photo into a bad one. Despite their size constraints, smartphone cameras have gotten better and better with time. One aspect of this progress...
Comparing smartphone cameras to DSLR cameras is like comparing apples to oranges. True, apples and oranges provide nutrition and sustenance for our bodies but, genetically, they are different. Thus, they have different tastes and textures. It’s the same with mobile...
If you look up mobile phone camera specs on a website like GSM Arena, you might find more and more smartphones that have what’s called a periscope camera. Simply put, a periscope camera (also referred to as a periscope zoom lens) in a smartphone refers to a mobile...
In any digital camera, the sensor is the most important piece of equipment. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to capture any images with our digital cameras. In fact, if you search around the internet, you may notice how many people agree that the sensor is more...
Ever since the camera became one of the biggest selling points of smartphones, manufacturers have been putting a lot of effort into improving their performance. It wasn’t until 2011 that a new trend emerged－phones multiple rear cameras. This saw the introduction and...
When taking pictures with our phones, most of us don’t even think about the actual size of the photos we’re taking. That is until the phone warns us we’re running out of memory. Only then we worry about how much space our photos occupy. How big are mobile photos? The...
