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This pureview-camera is designed by https://light.co who bagged $121m [0] in Series D funding lead by SoftBank a year back to develop what they call 'software-defined cameras' (SDN/IDN/NFV equivalent of the computer networking world, I guess). We might see more of these.

Here's a talk from co-founder Rajiv Laroia on their first camera, L16: https://spot.light.co/the-l16-under-the-hood/ ( https://youtu.be/vKmC9xWHhM4 )

The fancy camera aside, I'd have tough time recommending a Nokia device after they were caught sending user-data to servers in China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449824 but then again almost all major android phone manufacturers are Chinese...

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While I fully agree that the sending of user information by Nokia (or HMD Global to be specific) to Chinese servers was inacceptable breach of trust, I do think it was blown out of proportion https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fi&tl=en&u=htt...

That's a translated version of an article where HMD explains it was part of the software included for Chinese phones as required by the Chinese cyber laws. Which to me seems very plausible, but well it was a big screwup on HMD's part. I am not really comfortable with any Chinese made phones, like my own One Plus, but yet there isn't really better options out there. I'm not sure does One Plus still come with the backdoor capable software pre-installed https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/7ugzgy/oneplus_con...

Shame really, that there hasn't been bigger blowback towards China for their security practises which seem to be a major cause of this.

Nokia is not a stranger to multi-aperture cameras. Their first acquisition in this space was from more than 10 years ago.

Logic is following - it is physically impossible to stuff decent optics inside the phone, and extensive software processing is unavoidable. Thus, if you have to drink the software processing koolaid, drink as much as you can.

Another notable player in the are is https://www.facetvision.de/ - Fraunhofer's third or fourth respin of their camera module business. They had silicon to show, but I believe nobody took the bait yet.

I almost bought a Nokia phone, but after I found out their Android One phones have a bunch of Chinese made services running on them I figured I might as well buy a Chinese phone with better specs for the money and went with Xiaomi.

The phone which send data to Chinese servers, were using firmware/software version only used in Chinese market. There were some faulty phones in wrong market where the firmware was using the "chinese version."

Yes, but as far as I know all Nokia phones have services from evenwell running.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/actk7z/android_one_p...

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