What good is a 20MP selfiecam?

I’m stunned that mobile phones get selfiecams with 20MP resolution (people probably like to see their pimples, black heads in highres?), the back cams only have 12MP, sometimes you’ve a double cam (like 12MP + 5MP) but anyways.

Just marketing to a specific audience I think. Most of these phones are not Top Tier so it’s going to the affordable, younger market. The so-called market flagship of Note 9 only has 8mp front facing camera.

But like you said, no one actually wants to see their real skin, so more of a marketing thing. All of those phones have ‘selfie / beauty’ software to hide imperfections.

The same thing happened with regular digital cameras, with boosted megapixel numbers. Mainly just because of a lack of true innovation in mobile market. I mean new and improved models only really have hardware bumps or a ‘notch’ or the removal of the headphone jack…lol

People that take selfies and are glued to their phones are not really intelligent enough to think this deep. Marketing to idiots who can manage to get credit cards and or loans.

Slave sheep, a sad race.

It’s pretty funny how these phones are explicitly marketed as selfie cameras. I’m surprised nobody has released a device that does nothing except capture and manipulate selfies, which are automatically uploaded to your Facebook account whenever it finds a WiFi hotspot.

I dunno. Back in the day we used to have these things that vain women would use to admire themselves with. We called them hand mirrors. They were a lot cheaper than cellphones, IIRC.

You cant show off to the international useless people community with a mirror. Phones now are admittedly more convenient than a mirror. You get all those self satisfaction ego ticks with a phone plus calls internet porn pictures of non egotistical captures etc. Plus a calculator…I remember when I was hot shit in my school when I got my calculator watch. Took 2 days to have it taken away in math class. Oh how the times have changed.

Though for the truck drivers amongst us’ the phone and mirror serve the same morning pick me up they always have. But now we get government surveillance and lack of privacy. So it’s strange that meth head idiots driving getting caught isn’t on the rise but tax issues and marital miss calculations are. Retarded world, where is my brick phone?!?!

WTF, where does this go with front facing selfie cams, according to reports the Google pixel 3 XL has two 8 MP front facing selfie cams.

No doubt so that you can take “3D” photos, for use with one of those stereoscopic headset thingies.

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Fixed that one!

It’s a function to take a photo of lamella under the cap of mushrooms.

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