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« on: November 22, 2017, 04:05:21 pm »

iPhone X vs. Pixel 2: Portrait Selfie Showdown

How much stronger does Portrait Mode make your selfie game, and which phone does it better?



Portrait Selfies are my favorite thing happening in smartphones right now. I can feel your eyes rolling as you read this, but hear me out for a moment. On a technical level, we're seeing a massive push to improve the quality of the front-facing camera while applying depth maps and color correction so a photo can be instantly transformed into something new. It's fascinating and fun, and in the early days of this feature existing on smartphones, there are two massively different ways of creating this effect being used.

Apple's TrueDepth camera features multiple sensors to create a depth map in real time on the iPhone X. Google's solution relies entirely on machine learning and an impressive single camera to accomplish the same effect on the Pixel 2. Here's a look at how these two methods compare!



Left: Google Pixel 2 Right: Apple iPhone X

The first thing you need to understand when compari...

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