Metalenses are a relatively fringe optical technology — at least, they were. Until now, it has been largely pursued by startups and scientists but that is changing as Canon has jumped into the fray and not only makes them but also produces the equipment necessary to manufacture them.
The goal of a metalens would be to, eventually, wholly eliminate the smartphone camera bump.
They’ll do anything to avoid giving us a slightly thicker battery…
Right? Why not increase battery thickness, then no more camera bump!
My previous phone was a motoG power and though it was bulky and a bit laggy the battery life was amazing. It’s I think 3 years old now and I still use it in airplane mode for reasons. The battery lasts 3 weeks when I don’t touch it. Compare that the s22 I’m typing this on which barely lasts 1 day in standby with batter saver enabled. I hate this phone after having that sweet multi day battery life.
Yep, battery size and life was increasing nicely… Once it got to 1 day for the “average” user (i.e. People who barely use them) manufacturers said “good enough”.
I charge 2-3 times a day… Though I don’t let it get below 30%, mostly in case I need to suddenly walk out the door.
And I can’t even buy an external battery phone case these days, like I used to.
Yeah I’m old enough to have started with candy bar phones. Battery life has been creeping back below 1 day for a while. That motoG power would play music on Bluetooth all day if I started at 10% battery. It could also sit at 1% battery for hours if I didn’t touch it. Getting this new flagship phone is making me realize I value battery life way more than I realized.
Biggest issue with the older motoG was the camera sucked. I think the new version fixed that so I’ll probably go back to it.
Fuck smartphones, I wanna finally have glasses that are thin, light, and without distortions, reflections, or chromatic aberration
And I want a pony.
Okay Mr. Hands.
I’d take a thicker battery any day of the week.
“Oddly, Canon declined to provide PetaPixel with detailed information about its metalens technology and also chose not to provide any photos of its tech” Oddly a megatech corporation elected to keep a tight grip on its early IP? 🤔
Nah, used to get these in the bottom of a packet of chips with a pokemon on em.
Really cool tech, hopefully this means the costs of producing them will eventually decrease to affordable levels.
I wonder when companies are going to shift from making stupid stuff we don’t need like this and start working on things to clean up the environment they destroyed making things for the last 40 years.
Why would they?
I’m not being trite, I’m being serious. If they’re not given a reason to do so, companies don’t do things.
If you really think that is a viable business then you should be shifting towards creating said business that makes money working on things to clean up the environment.
Please shut up.
Stop whining
Okay 👌
