Samsung on Friday poked fun at Apple’s new iPhone 14 lineup. In a series of tweets, Samsung questioned whether the devices Apple unveiled on Wednesday were actually “innovative,” as its long-time rival called them.
During its “Far Out” event on Wednesday, Apple announced the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, along with the higher-end iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
The South Korean electronics giant, which moves more phones globally than Apple, offered up a “brief summary” of its reactions to Apple’s iPhone 14 launch. Suffice it to say, Samsung wasn’t impressed.
Samsung’s got a point, especially with the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus essentially being a rehash of the iPhone 13. They even have the same chassis and chip as last year’s models.
— Samsung Mobile US (@SamsungMobileUS) September 9, 2022
Samsung specifically pointed out the lack of a foldable device from Apple. The company went on to boast that it has already been selling foldable phones for well over two years now (2 years, 5 months, and 20 days, to be precise).
That said, Apple is known to wait for new technology to reach a certain degree of maturity before integrating it into products. Just look at how long it took Apple to adopt OLED screens for the iPhone.
In addition, most people who have used a foldable device would agree — the technology isn’t quite there yet. At least not to Apple’s standards.
— Samsung Mobile US (@SamsungMobileUS) September 9, 2022
The iPhone 14 Pro got an upgrade to a 48MP main camera with quad-pixel technology (unlike the base iPhone 14, which simply got an “improved” 12MP sensor). Samsung in its tweets compared numbers with its own smartphone cameras, which have included a 108MP primary shooter since the S21 Ultra.
If foldable phones (or Samsung) aren’t your jam, though, you can learn more about Apple’s new iPhone 14 line on Apple.ca.
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Megapixels don’t mean nearly as much as sensor size. I’m so tired of these companies head faking people with megapixels. That’s why professionals use DSLR’s. I’d rather have a 12 megapixel camera with much larger sensor than even a 200 megapixel camera with either the s21’s or Iphone 14’s sensor sizes.
Rule #1 in marketing – if you can’t amaze them with facts, baffle them with b*llshlt.
I think you meant “can’t,” but ya, they know most people don’t know what the camera specs mean anyway.
To the uninformed, in short, bigger sensors means more light, more light means better pictures. Computational photography simply means they’re doing a lot of the editing on the phone as apposed to you doing the editing on your computers. Then with computational photography you have hope whomever wrote the camera software shares your opinion of what the pictures should look like, otherwise you’re still editing.
Thank you for pointing my error out, I’ve since corrected it.
I will not claim to know how these “cameras” work as you mentioned, the software is doing all work now. I took a pic of the moon two nights ago as it was close to full and very bright.
When I look at the pic, it comes out looking like a pic of the sun in all its glory.
I was stunned by how long the phone took to finalize the photo and I can just imagine all the software going through its procedures to make things work.
So yeah I just might be one of those gullible that would fall to disingenuous cons like this.
Don’t get me wrong, I know very little about cameras but I’m not buying my phones for the camera. I do know the most basic things that I mentioned. Frankly, for my purposes the phones from 3-4 years ago were good enough. It’s nice to have the software features but people need to understand what the specs actually mean and more megapixels don’t necessarily mean “better phone cameras.” That said, I think the s21/s22 has a bigger sensor than the Iphone 14 pro max also.
I’m probably getting an Iphone 14 pro max for my wife who loves the Iphone and can’t walk 100 yards without taking a pic of something 🙄