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It is having put the whole mobile in the camera module

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Apple checked yesterday with the design of its iPhone Airand rightly. But not because of its extraordinary thinness, which many seems to us a wrong obsession, but for something very different: its camera module, which is actually much more than that. Why is it important. In that small Apple module has managed to encapsulate not only the camera sensor, but almost the entire circuitry of this iPhone. They have done it with an objective: that the rest is just what an ultradelgado mobile needs, which is, Logically, drums. A Plateau prodigious. Those responsible for the firm explain in the description of the iPhone Air how the new Plateau (“Plateau”), that camera module, houses the cameras, the speaker, and the Apple Silicon family chip. Taking into account the reduced dimensions of said module, the achievement is exceptional. The rise of the MAC Mini M1 in Ifixit showed that Apple had a lot of space in that chassis. I was sung that they would end up offering a more compact model, as we saw with the Mac Mini M4. The Mac Mini M1 taught us the future. The extreme miniaturization Achieved by Apple in its integrated circuits already astonished us With the launch of the Apple M1 in the Mac Mini M1. These teams retained the chassis of the traditional Mac Mini, but in reality they could have been much smaller because the motherboard was tiny. So much so that with the Mac Mini M4 we could finally verify how small these teams could be. In the case of the iPhone Air that achievement goes one step further. The iPhone Air points to the folding iPhone. This technical achievement makes us inevitably think that this type of module can also end up being the protagonist in the hypothetical folding iPhone of which We have been talking for years. Rumors are in fact that we will see this device in 2026, and although the format does not seem definitive, Apple seems to be turning towards a foldable shell type like the Z Flip5, and not one type Z fold that when deploying resembles an iPad Mini. Of course, any of these options remains feasible. Unstoppable evolution. Other “Desceces” of Ifixit Like that of the Vision Pro They demonstrate that Apple’s ability to integrate all components into almost impossible volumes, and that is what they have demonstrated generation after iPhone generation. The motherboards of these devices have been dwarfing until we reach that minimum expression that we have seen on the iPhone Air. Total control = total integration. In that achievement it has a lot to do with that vertical integration that Apple has achieved. The firm already controls practically all sections of manufacturing and in fact on the iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 debut New connectivity chips and decisions like Eliminate traditional SIM slots. All aimed at making thinner devices, yes, but also more efficient. But. That technical achievement is unquestionable, but once achieved, why obsess with thinness? Having great autonomy remains one of the most valued characteristics in these mobiles, but in Apple they seem to prioritize once again – as in the time of Jony Ive – the form on the function. The iPhone Air looks striking, without a doubt, But I didn’t need to be so thin. Even Apple itself seems to recognize it: to announce a Magsafe battery in the form of “backpack” specifically designed for this mobile. In Xataka | The iPhone Air is the new attempt to solve what has tormented Apple for years: the fourth iPhone syndrome

The best novelty of the iPhone 17 is one that is going unnoticed: a square front camera

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Apple has presented an innovation that has gone unnoticed among the most striking improvements of The iPhone 17: A completely redesigned front camera with a square sensor. Why is it important. For the first time in the history of the iPhone, Apple has abandoned the traditional format 4: 3 of the front camera. The new square sensor allows selfies Grupales horizontally without turning the phone. What has happened. Apple has equipped this system in all models of the new generation: iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The resolution has increased from 12 to 18 megapixels. The square sensor works as a broader canvas than different formats are cut according to the need. The AI ​​automatically detects how many people appear in the frame and adjusts the field of vision accordingly. However, the final result is 7 megapixel photos, according to The images shown by Apple during the Keynote. In detail. The new camera allows three different formats: 4: 3 portrait for selfies individual. Horizontal 16: 9 for groups. Square format for social networks. During video calls, Center Stage, an old acquaintanceautomatically keeps the user centered on the frame, even if it moves. The function also allows you to record simultaneously with the front and rear cameras. Yes, but. No Android manufacturer has implemented exactly this solution. Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo or Google have opted for ultra -angular front sensors to achieve similar effects, but maintain the traditional rectangular format. The advantage of Apple’s approach is simplicity: it prevents users from physically turning the device to change the orientation, something especially useful when the phone is held with one hand. The context. This improvement comes after years of relative stagnation in Apple’s front cameras. The last important update had been the jump to 12 megapixels in the iPhone 12 of 2020. The commitment to the square sensor reflects the Apple approach to simplify usual gestures through software. Instead of forcing the user to adapt their behavior to the device, the iPhone adapts to the needs of the moment. In Xataka | If you buy an iPhone Air, you will not be able to use a physical sim: Apple forces its users to go to ESIM Outstanding image | Apple

NASA lost the best camera in Jupiter. A suicide plan has served to recover it successfully

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It seemed the premature end of the mission. The Junocam, the camera that has given us the most spectacular images of Jupiter and his moons, was dying. The relentless radiation of the gaseous giant had degraded the sweat sensor Juno turning his photos into a noise knead and corrupt lines. We had to try. With an overfruit of the moon ío just around the corner, the NASA team played the whole for the whole with a risky maneuver: cook the camera slowly at 600 million kilometers away to try to repair it. Although all at the control center endured breathing, the play worked. And not only that, but the miraculous rescue has sat a precedent for future space missions. Jupiter’s best photographer. Trying it was worth it because Junocam is not any camera. Is responsible for those Jupiter images that seem impressionist paintings and that, curiously, they are prosecuted by a community of fans on Earth. But its location is priced: it is out of titanium “bunker” that protects the main electronics of the Juno probe. NASA engineers knew that their useful life would be limited in one of the most radioactive environments of the solar system. The Calvary of the Junocam. The juno probe, that arrived in Jupiter in July 2016was designed to last until 2018, but its success has led NASA to extend the mission several times. During the first 34 orbits, Junocam worked perfectly. From orbit 47, radiation ravages began to be evident. For orbit 56, in November 2023, the situation was critical. “Almost all the images were corrupt,” admits NASA In a statement. The planet Jupiter and the moon ío photographed by Juno before and after repair A repair to all or nothing. Diagnosing the failure of a component at millions of kilometers is a titanic task. Repairing is a miracle. The clues pointed to a damaged voltage regulator at the camera power supply. With few options, the team resorted to a process called annealing or Annealing. The idea was, in essence, to heat the material and then cool it slowly, with the hope that heat would repair microscopic defects at the atomic level. “The annealing can sometimes alter a material such as silicon at the microscopic level, but we did not know if this would solve the damage,” explains Jacob Shaffner, chamber engineer. Forged on fire. NASA sent a command to Juno so that the only heater in the Junocam raised its temperature at about 25 ° C, much more than usual. The result was a success … temporary. The camera sent sharp images for several orbits. But Jupiter does not forgive. As the probe entered the radiation belts, the damage returned more strongly. “After orbit 55, our images were full of stripes and noise,” says Michael Ravine, head of the instrument. With an upcoming one Near Iro of íoonly one option was left. The only thing they had not tried was to take Junocam heater to the fullest and see if a more extreme recovery would save us. The reward. The first week there were no improvements. The tension in the equipment was maximum. But just a few days after the encounter with ío, the images began to improve dramatically. By the time Juno went to just 1,500 kilometers of the most volcanic moon in the solar system, the camera worked almost as well as the day of its launch. The success of the maneuver allowed Juno to capture very unprecedented and unprecedented images of the northern pole. The images revealed mountains covered with sulfur dioxide frost and Lava rivers that allowed scientists to rebuild geological formations as fascinating as A lava lake with a glass mountain Inside. This achievement is the culmination of an extended mission that has led Juno to explore Jupiter’s great moons. First it was Ganímedes in 2021the largest satellite of the solar system, and then Europe in 2022. I was as follows on the list, and losing the main camera would have been a hard blow. The repair, of course, is not eternal. NASA informs that noise has begun to reappear in orbit 74. But the lesson learned is incalculable. Images | NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSS In Xataka | The NASA Juno probe sends six photos of its passage through ío, the most inhospitable moon of the solar system

For the first time we have pointed to heaven with a 3,200 megapixel camera. In just 10 hours he has done several years

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The world’s largest digital camera is already operational. And what he has seen in just a few hours of trial is simply overwhelming. The Vera Rubin Observatory. Located in the privileged Watchtower of Cerro Pachón, Chile, the Vera Observatory C. Rubin points to the sky with a digital camera of the size of a small car. Its 3,200 megapixel sensor is ever built. He has been developing more than two decades, but the wait has been worth it. What is capable of capturing They are not simple “beautiful photos” of the universe. In just 10 hours of operations, the preliminary results already exceed years of work from other observatories. What he has seen in 10 hours. In this very brief period of time. The Rubin Observatory has been able to capture 10 million galaxies. It is only 0.05% of the 20,000 million galaxies that their operators expect to catalog during their main mission. But also has discovered 2,104 asteroids Never seen before. This figure is surprising if we compare it with the approximately 20,000 asteroids that discover all other observatories in the world throughout a whole year. Rubin has done 10% of that work in less than half a day. Among them, he has found seven asteroids near Earth, but all out of our trajectory. Trifida nebulous and lagoon seen by the LSST camera of the Vera Rubin Observatory The biggest camera in the world. Financed by the National Foundation of Sciences (NSF) and the United States Department of Energy (DOE), the Rubin Observatory promises “to capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes of all history together”, in the words of Brian Stone, director of the NSF. It is a matter of brute force. Mounted on a telescope of 8.4 meters in diameter is the space-time research chamber as a legacy for posterity (LSST), a technological feat of 2,800 kg. Each image that captures an area of ​​the sky equivalent to 45 full moons. And who was Vera Rubin. The Observatory owes his name to the American astronomer which contributed the most conclusive evidence of the existence of dark matter, the invisible substance that seems to constitute 85% of the matter of the cosmos. The dynamic and ultra -precise map that will create the Rubin Observatory for the next ten years will play a key role to understand its nature. The Observatory will generate approximately 20 data terabytes every night. Throughout its ten years of useful life, the final data set will reach the figure of 500 petabytes. Only in its first year will collect more data than all previous optical observatories together. In Xataka | Caltech has published the “stronger” tests that there is an unknown planet in the solar system

The iPhone camera had me to my noses. Until Google Pixel’s father arrived to fix it

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I’ve been loading with me for some time Canon R7 Every time I’m on a trip. The reason is easy: I am very tired of the photos of the iPhone 16 Pro. It is not an exclusive problem of this phone, After analyzing all high -end cameras I have been reaching the same conclusion for years: it is of no use to improve the hardware if the defendant is still bad. And why do I consider it bad? Because with sensors that touch the inch and processors more powerful than those of a computer, mobile phones should be closer to a SRFLEX than of the same photos they made five years ago. Almost 10 years ago, there was a company that wanted to change everything with the “computational photography.” That company was Google, who launched in 2016 Google Pixel. In his day, it was a milestone: a mobile that took advantage of artificial intelligence (although at that time there was not so much emphasis on that word) to take much above those of his rivals. At the head of the photography team for the Google Pixel was Marc Levoy, currently an adobe worker. After a few years in silence he has done what no manufacturer has wanted to do: squeeze to the limit the power of a mobile to teach us what he can really do. Why is it important. Adobe has announced very discreetly Indigo Projectan app that applies as we had never seen the principles of computational photography to the iPhone. Until now, no such radical attempt had been made: this application consumes many resources and shows results that, until now, did not seem possible in the automatic mode of a phone. Is the best sample of The stagnant that manufacturers carry (including Google) in mobile photography. And although we spend more than 1,000 euros in a telephone, The camera is always well below what I could really do. Levoy himself makes it clear in his publication: “People often complain about the” appearance of the smartphone “: too bright, low contrast, high color saturation, strong softened and strong sharpness. This prosecuted comes, in part, for the most mainstream user preferences. But when someone spends a grassland on a phone (and in Europe we are doing it more than ever), this begins to be a problem. What is project indigo. This is a free app developed by Adobe Labs and led, among others, by Marc Levoy. The most nerd can enjoy manual controls, but the average user will not have to worry about anything: it is a “normal and current” with which you open, aim and shoot. The key is that, when he takes the photo, he is doing something completely different from what Apple does. This is what Indigo can do with a RAW from the iPhone. At all rag. A few years ago, when Apple talked about Smart HDR, the company showed combinations of up to 9 images to get a photo in HDR. The current number is not known, but Apple’s HDR has not improved substantially in recent years. Levoy does make clear how his app works: 32 PHOTOS IN RAW to create only one, neither more nor less. Combining 32 frames to create a single photo is a very high figure. Thanks to this, less noise is achieved in shadow areas, less reflections, and less overexposure (white parts, very burned), using more low-exposite frames. Thanks to having so many information, the textures are maintained better, the reduction of software noise is less necessary, and the softened is minimized. MAPOO DE TONESO NUGUAL | What can be achieved with a correct tones mapping. Going beyond. Another of the big problems of current photography has to do with HDR, and how shadow areas are crushed (or, vice versa, everything is burned) in scenes that require a high dynamic range. To avoid the classic (and unpleasant) forced HDR effect, this app has its own tone mapping (a fundamental process to obtain information on luminosity and color when dealing with HDR content). In other less complex words: this app processes as adobe wants, And not as Apple wants. The zoom. Indigo’s last key has to do with the zoom, one of the historical weak points of the iPhone. This application, without us noticing, takes multiple photos constantly while it is open (do not fear for your storage, until you shoot the final photo and processed, nothing is saved). This allows, when we take a photo with zoom, they can be combined to obtain a final in more detail. When to use this app. Everything looks great with Indigo, until you wonder how it is possible that a mobile can take 32 photos and process them without flinching. It is not so easy. This application puts the iPhone to work to the fullest, which can cause it to hot, especially in summer. Despite this, if you have time to take a good photo (it takes a few seconds to process) and want to escape that mobile look, this camera is practically perfect. His own developers consider it as an experimental camera app, and in their first phase of development it will be completely free. It is compatible with all iPhone from 12, and it is planned to end up landing on Android soon. Despite being experimental app, it has a great future ahead. Its developers claim that they want to load it with personalized looks, computational video functions, and improvements they show in the potential of well -applied computational photography. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Best iPhone. Which to buy in 2025 and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

This camera as small as ambitious is not perfect, but almost

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There are cameras that arrive with so much noise that it is impossible to ignore them. The DJI OSMO POCKET 3 It has been one of the most commented in recent months by its size, its versatility and its surprising performance for video. But … is it as good as they say? In this New 24/7 episode published in the YouTube channel Se xatakaour partner intends to find out: record with her for a whole month as the only main camera, getting to record resources for videos such as the Versus of the Samsung Galaxy A56 against the iPhone 16E. “I have asked to use it only as my main video camera,” he says at the beginning. Neither loose tests nor support clips: a real and continuous use. What comes from there? The first thing that attracts attention is how much such a small format can give. “The first time I saw the Osmo Pocket I judged her quite bad Because I thought something so small could not record anything well. ” And yet, the thing changes after several days recording real plans for other Xataka videos. There are strengths that do not take long to appear. The stabilization of three axes, the automatic approach, the Face Track mode. “It works quite well, it is fast and does not have many failures.” And the design with folding OLED screen 90 degrees makes you record yourself as simple than it seems. But there are also decisions that surprise. And not for good. What about the digital zoom? And why can’t you record vertically without trimming resolution? The camera allows you to record vertically, but it does so digitally the image. And although that can be enough for social networks, It is not ideal To get the most out of the sensor. How is it possible that you have to install an APK today if you use Android? Throughout the video, advanced functions such as recording in logarithmic, settings in 10 bits and wireless microphone performance are tested. There is also talk of autonomy, fast charging and accessory pack. At this point, it should be specified: autonomy is approximately an hour and 50 minutes recording at 4k at 60fps, which can be extended up to about 3 hours and 20 minutes with the battery grip. Now, not everything is as round as it seems. And some things could directly improve. As for the zoom, during the first tests it offered quite poor results, but after a Firmware updateDJI has managed to improve. It is not perfect, but at least now it is usable in specific situations. “It is one of the most useful and comfortable cameras that I have ever tried to create content,” concludes our partner. But that means that it deserves what it costs? And that has no rival in its format? Give it to the play. Because this time, the 24/7 is for this interesting camera. And if you want to know more about other outstanding devices in the world of photography, we invite you to read our articles about the Canon Eos R1 and OM System OM-3. Images | Xataka In Xataka | Photographing the sun with a mobile was until recently a chimera. We have done it with the living X200 Pro

The best of a mobile with a spectacular camera and the parts that still need to polish

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It is not just another high -end phone. He Xiaomi 15 Ultra arrives with a clear intention: to position yourself as a referent in mobile photography. You just have to see its cameras module, an inch sensor and its technical configuration to understand that here is seriously played. And, when a mobile promises, we usually submit to demanding evidence, Like this new 24/7 on the Xataka YouTube channel. “5 days have passed since I am using this phone and I have not stopped taking photos and videos with him. And … wow. The results in automatic are hallucinating me.” That is the first impression of our partner Mario Arroyo, who has incorporated the terminal in his day to day. But, is it still dazzling after so many days? What is left of the ‘Wow’ effect after several weeks? That is what we will try to put on the table. One of the most powerful video points is how the camera yields beyond the specifications. Because yes, it has impressive data: a 50 MP main sensor, an ultra wide angle of 50 MP, a 50 MP teleobjective and a 200 MP super-telefoto with optical zoom. All this supported for generous focal distances, in one of the most versatile systems we have seen. But the important thing is how it pays in real life. The protagonist of 24/7 stops in key aspects that make a difference: the Automatic approachfor example, describes it as “very fast framing”, and talks about how well it captures the subjects without the need to activate extra modes. It also highlights the natural blur that is achieved thanks to the depth of field: “The portrait mode is hardly necessary having such good results in automatic.” As you will see below, this analysis goes beyond the camera. The design is also addressed: the finishing finish, the combination of colors with the aesthetics Leica has its charm, but there is also at least a difficult problem to ignore and several reproaches arise, especially in the software section. “Hyperos, despite its personalization level, includes bloatware and certain debatable decisions,” says Mario. And of course, the dilemma arrives: is it worth investing in this mobile if what you are looking for is the best camera? Where is the limit between what it offers and what it costs? Is this Xiaomi 15 ultra the new photographic referent of 2025 … or a piece for a very specific audience? Recall that there are many devices that aspire to occupy this throne. If the camera is what you value most, if you are one of those who take photos every day and you like to get the most out of each shot, this 24/7 can give you just what you need. Give the play to immerse yourself in our most recent publication on the Xataka YouTube channel. Images | Xataka In Xataka | Just when the batteries were breaking all the records came the ultra-infinity mobiles. China has a lesson for them

How to share your camera or your screen with Google Gemini on iOS and Android

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Let’s explain Share your camera or your screen with Google Gemini Something you can do in iOS and Android. This is an option that is beginning to reach all users, even all those who use the free version of artificial intelligence. This is a function of Gemini Livein which you can ask questions related to things you have on the screen of your mobile. And as you can also share your camera, you can also ask you about things you have in front of them just pointing to them. Share camera or screen with Gemini The first thing you have to do is enter Gemini’s app, and in it go to the Gemini Live section. To do so, you have to click on your icon to the right of the writing field of the application. This icon has a button with three vertical stripes and a star. Once you are inside Gemini Live, below you have two icons to share camera or screen. The camera icon is to share that of your device and that Gemini can see what you are seeing, and the one who has the square with the arrow is to share screen. If you still don’t appear you will have to wait. If you click on the camera buttonyou will open that of your mobile so that in Gemini what you are looking at appears. Now, as you are in the Live function, You can ask questions with your voice That they are related to what you have in front, and Gemini will answer you. If you click on the Chamber Share buttonyou will go to a screen that you can choose if you want to share the entire screen or alone an application. In any of the cases, data such as notifications that arrive will be hidden. When you start, then you will see everything you have on the screen at this time. And how are you in Gemini Live, You can ask questions with your voice That they are related to elements that you have in the app you have open or whatever you want, and Gemini will answer you. In Xataka Basics | How to use Gemini to look at your gmail email: configuration and what can you do

With 256 GB, good camera and six years of guaranteed updates

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The Google Pixel have become one of the most successful mobiles for some time, especially among those who decide on the high range. If you are thinking about renew your old terminal, today, the Google Pixel 9 It is a good purchase option. Now, you can take it, in its 256 GB version reduced on Amazon, by 693.39 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review A mobile with an outstanding camera Launched last year, the Google Pixel 9 It is still, today, a good mobile to consider. Your screen is type Super acts Oledwith a diagonal of 6.3 inches and resolution of 2,424 x 1,080 pixels. It reaches a maximum brightness of 2,700 nits and its refreshment rate is 120 Hz. Monta the processor Google Tensioner G4 and works under the operating system Android 14. Although it guarantees updates for seven years, being a terminal last year, right now you have six years of fully guaranteed updates. The offer model has a 12 GB RAM and 256 GB of storage, a space more than plenty for the vast majority of users. Another identity of this Google terminal is its photographic system, formed by a Double 50+48 MP rear camera. Its battery admits fast charge to 45 w and comes with NFC, Bluetooth 5.3 and Wifi 7. You may also interest these accessories to protect this Google mobile Jetech founded for Google Pixel 9/9 pro 2024 * Some price may have changed from the last review Geemee 2+2 pieces screen protector for google pixel 9 and camera lens protector * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Pepu Ricca (Xataka Android) and Google In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price. Your analysis and videos are here

If your mobile sounds like a maracas when stirring, you are in luck. Your camera has what you have to have

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There is a question that my acquaintances ask me lately when they buy their new phone and, unintentionally, they move it a little stronger than the account. Why does it sound like there was something loose? Depending on the size and distribution of the cameras, the sound can be more or less strong. For example, my iPhone 16 Pro sounds quite lazy, but my Pixel 9 Pro It is a show. In both cases, more or less sound, the origin of this phenomenon is a consequence of good news: the camera is level. THE SOUND TO MARACAS. Agite the phone and that sounds at the top is a matter of concern for users, and in Forums like Reddit It has been widely discussed. There is only one reason for the phone to sound like a maracas when moving it, and that reason is the OIS. These are the acronym for optical image stabilizer, and if your mobile has one, you are in luck. And no, there is no problem that sounds in specific situations such as stirring the phone. What is an ois. There are two ways to stabilize an image: physically or digitally. In the first case you just have to process the image through some cut to try to eliminate trepidations. In the second, we talk about a mechanical system in charge of compensating the involuntary movements we make when holding the phone. This Ois It is usually composed of a game of gyroscopes and electromagnetic actuators, designed to compensate for the micromevications that this area suffers. If you move the mobile phone, you will compensate to the right, and so on each of the possible directions. Not all ois are the same. If my iPhone 16 pro sounds less it is because it does not use a traditional system, it directly uses a stabilized sensor. This means that there is no movement in the lens, but in the sensor itself. This is much more precise compared to traditional, faster, and useful with large sensors. It is a technology that has not ended up standardizing, since its implementation is more expensive. What does the ois allow. Thanks to OIS, we can obtain more clear photographs in any type of light condition, but especially in low light. Not having hardly trepidations, the camera can lower the shutter speed (almost as if it were on a tripod). It also affects videos, in which stabilization is key. Both when capturing video with more light and when allowing more stable planes, the OIS is simply essential. More and more mainstream. The OIS, despite carrying with us more than ten years, is not completely standardized. More and more mid -range mobiles carry it, but when manufacturers want to save costs, the OIS is one of the elements they cut. If we look at the list of devices released in 2025 with OISthe tonic is clear: mid -range mobiles, leaving the cheapest proposals (such as the recent CMF Phone 2 Pro) At the mercy of electronic stabilization. Image | Xataka In Xataka | How to take the best photos with a cheap mobile: seven tricks to compensate for technical limitations

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