Some Are Saying iPhone Xs Selfies Are Looking ‘Too Good’

The cameras on Apple’s iPhones have always been good. They might not necessarily be deemed to be the best, but they have always been good enough where many users have no problems capturing great quality photos with them. However it seems that the improvements Apple made with the iPhone Xs might have led to some conspiracy theories.

In a post on Bustle (via Cult of Mac), Emma Lord compares the quality of the selfie camera of the iPhone Xs against that of the iPhone 6s and found the differences to be huge, but in a good way. Like we said, this has since led to some believing that Apple might have secretly included a beautifying technique into its camera app without users knowing.

While beauty filters that smoothens and lightens the skin have been used by other handset manufacturers and developers of apps, Apple has typically shied away from such gimmicks. In fact as far as in-app filters are concerned, what Apple offers with the native camera app is very barebones, and Portrait mode and Portrait Lighting are as gimmicky as Apple gets.

There have been many who have felt that Apple’s cameras are making their selfies look too good, with Lewis Hilsenteger from Unbox Therapy commenting on it in his iPhone Xs and Xs Max unboxing video. Apple has yet to respond to this conspiracy, but what do you guys make of it? Did Apple secretly include a beautifying filter that they neglected to tell anyone about?

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Google’s ‘Portals’ Could Change How We Surf The Web On Mobile

The way we browse the web on our phones versus on our computers are different. This is because our phones are designed differently, such as being smaller, and also running on different hardware, and also generally relying on touch input as its main input as opposed to using a keyboard and mouse.

For those who feel that maybe web browsing on mobile could stand to do with some improvements, it seems that’s what Google thinks as it appears that the company is working on a project called Portals that could change how we surf the web on our phones. The project is led by Kenji Baheux who is a Product Manager at Google, where the goal of Portals is try and create websites that will allow users to seamlessly navigate from one page to another using gestures, which hopefully will cut down time spent waiting for websites to load.

This is particularly important because as Amazon had said in the past, a page load slowdown of even 1 second could cost the company as much as $1.6 billion in sales each year, so it is obvious that the speed of which pages load is very critical, especially to retailers where users might simply hop onto a different and faster retailer for their needs.

That being said, don’t get your hopes up of seeing Portal launch anytime soon as it seems to be in proposal mode at the moment. It is also is still a bit unclear as to how different this will be from regular browsing, but if you’re interested you can find more information about the project on Github.

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