The one thing phone cameras need to improve in 2019

The camera on your phone is pretty spectacular. In an instant, it can capture a milestone in your child's life, a night out with friends or that particularly attractive slice of avocado toast in front of you.

Camera technology on phones has made giant jumps in innovation over just a few years resulting in plenty of phones that take outstanding photos. There's the Huawei P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro that use triple rear cameras; the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Note 9 with mechanical dual-aperture; the Pixel 3 equipped with AI muscle and the iPhone XR and XS with a new HDR recipe. But nearly all of these phones are lacking in one area: video.

Phones can produce incredible photos and benefit from compelling features like portrait mode. But video shot on phones still lags dramatically behind in terms of image quality, dynamic range and low-light performance.

It's time for video from our phones to reach the same level of quality as the photos we take. Here are some ways companies can improve the way phones record video and a few video features that might be nice add-ons, too.The iPhone XR, XS and XS Max capture the best overall videos on any phone you can buy. This comes in part from Apple's A12 chipset and "Neural Engine," which speedily process footage.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm, which makes processors for Android phones such as the upcoming Galaxy S10, recently launched the new Snapdragon 855 chipset. CNET tested the new chip and found it was 45 percent faster than last year's Snapdragon 845 processor. This should help provide some extra muscle for Android phones.

It's only a matter of time before phones wrangle enough power to record and optimize video via AI and machine learning. Google is in the best position to do this since it already uses AI and machine learning to improve photos. Needless to say, video would require a phone to handle much more data compared to a single photo, and adding that extra burden of "enhancing" video footage quickly would require a level of power a couple of generations away.https://www.ttspy.com/live-phone-cameras-streaming-for-parental-con...