QUOTE(Fhaarkas @ Sep 9 2013, 10:33 AM)
I know that but your regular Joe doesn't know or care about that. And regular Joe is the only important figure in this business. He also wants to see lag-less experience like his iPhone and Droids.
I can think of at least two theoretical solutions for the lag. They can either buffer the shots in L1020's huge RAM and do the saving in background (see: WP's very own image upload that works very well at deceiving users of its perceived speed) or they can reconfigure one or two cores of a quad just to process images (it should be possible as long as MS keep WP lightweight as it is). The latter is probably what Nokia engineers had in mind when they were b*tching about WP's dual-core restriction, and I really don't blame them because WP team is just inept and clueless at designing an OS. I guess we'll see if it's really what they have in mind when L1520 is released.
SD slot should be there simply because people will b*tch if it's not. And b*tch they did. People don't care what design challenge they have to face in trying to fit it in, they just know the phone sucks because it can't store 2-day worth of 1080p turtle swimming videos they took in their vacation. If they want to sell a 38MP camera taking 10+ MB pic each and 1080p video recording at 20Mbps with no SD slot, they better slap a 64GB storage on it.
I'm disappointed to see MS being so half-assed about WP, after all their yap-yap-yap saying otherwise. I want to see this platform succeed, but it cannot succeed if the team keep taking years to implement rotation lock, app kill switch, call blocking and all those mundane, _basic_ stuff that should've been there from day one.
1. You're right, average Joe doesn't care. But to me, 1020 isn't really for an average Joe, it's targeting a niche market.
2. If not mistaken, they are already doing that. It's just that even with the extra RAM, it still takes quite a bit of processing power to compress the photo from 38MP to 5MP and such processing, even with a quad core, I guarantee would still lag (it's an ARM processor afterall). That's why the best is still to have a dedicated image processor. You're right, WP team really is
I mean, come on man, how difficult is it to support more SoC? You're only dealing with Qualcomm, you're giving exclusive deals to Qualcomm so in return, I expect a lot of support (technically) from them. Wait until they start accepting other chips like TI, Tegra, Exynos and so on ....
3. Well, I have my SkyDrive auto upload on all the time, so for me, nothing to rant about. I can live without SD
4. Wholeheartedly agree here.
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