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Quote from: Samuel Vanunu on Yesterday at 14:25:42They need bigger sensor. Why they did not put bigger sensors?

Sony is a company that has always cared about looks / aesthetics much like Apple. They're not going to have oversized camera bumps that make smartphones look like DSLRs. Chinese OEMs care much less about physical design, how a device feels in hand, how even the weight / mass is distributed within a device, if the device wobbles while you type on it resting on a table or desk, etc - by contrast for instance, so they're more likely to use them.

Personally, even tho using larger sensors ultimately solves many issues, I tend to be on the side of using more moderately sized sensors and compensating for the deficiencies using AI algorithms (Aka pixel and iPhone approach) for the additional benefits that are gained which I just mentioned above.

I understood what you said. It makes sense. It is possible. I rarely change my phone. Since 2010, I have been using smartphones. I used only 3 phones which are HTC desire HD, Samsung S7 edge, Google Pixel 6a (I bought last year because S7 edge is broken). Because of stupid strategies HTC, LG, etc gone. I like Sony. I has been reading news in here maybe since 2015. This was my first comment. I wrote maybe someone from Sony see it. I do not want them to fail but their phone business is almost dead. Imagine there is a big fire in your house and you are about to die, you should not care your clothing style. You have to run away as soon as possible. After I read your message, I checked Sony Xperia sales. According to recent Bloomberg news, Sony's mobile sales in Japan declined 40% in 2023 and are likely to suffer a similar drop this year, according to IDC analyst Masafumi Inbe. The company hovers around 1 million sales per year in a country with a population of 125 million, where people buy 30 million smartphones every year. Even in Japan, they are dying. There are similar stupid strategies in laptop market, too. few years ago, I researched laptop panels a lot. I had one project. Than, I gave up. At that time, I realized that prices of laptop screen panels are too close to each other. Also, they are pretty cheap. At that time, best 17.3 inch 4k %100 adobe rgb gamut lcd panel was at most 60 dollars for individual buy. Six months ago, I bought Asus laptop. It has 40-50% srgb gamut lcd panel. Why you do not put better screen for only 10 dollar more? I know they make product segmentation. I can show why they do this based on mathematics and economic theory. However, they are doing wrong. Many Chinese laptop producers try to put best possible components. They decrease their profit margin a little bit. However, they earn more market share. Later old companies will not compete with them. Apple follow same stupid strategy. They sell extra ram, ssd etc with astronomical numbers but people continue to buy from them. In case of Sony phone business, people do not appreciate Sony's strategy. Anyway, I wrote long. Rest in peace, Sony Xperia.

Das, was Ihr da verzapft, nennt man das ,,Bullshit-Bingo"?

Fehlt eigentlich nur noch die Motivklingel.

Imagine the power usage, at least 3kW I'd say and 6kW if it were 8K.

Whenever I go to look for an app, I always search for its git first. Then go from there.

I suggest doing that in the future

Quote from: NikoB on May 13, 2024, 10:44:09

Quote from: anan on May 13, 2024, 09:40:27Long term - EVs are better than ICE vehicles.

Absolutely not, if we take into account all the factors that harm the planet's ecology, from the creation of batteries and electric vehicles, to their disposal and generation of energy for them, and the harm from the development of these means of generating electricity. Green energy is essentially unprofitable without subsidies, as is the growing failure of sales, because fanatics with money ended and ordinary people began, able and forced to count money. And then it turned out that the internal combustion engine absolutely wins.

The transport tax on electric vehicles should be at least 2-3 times higher due to the obvious much greater damage to road surfaces from cars with a much larger operating weight. No amount of wider tires will solve this problem. Therefore, it is inevitable - owners of electric vehicles everywhere will pay higher transport taxes and this is correct.

They are also required to pay for environmental damage in countries where lithium and all other ingredients are mined and processed.

If you factor in all environmental damage, cradle to grave, ICE cars do far more damage.

Fossil fuels are essentially unprofitable without government subsidies or protections.

PS A gallon of oil does more environmental damage than a gallon of lithium

Asus can dream about getting new users with all the s*** publicity they're creating for themselves with dismal service and warranty scams.

Quote from: George on Yesterday at 21:42:38It might be worth noting (guessing!) what the frustration with Nintendo is?

If I were to take a guess:
a) Nvidia offered a much more powerful & efficient SoC for the Switch 2 for only slightly more but Nintendo said no.

Previously when the original Switch launched it really had no peers or competitors - so it didn't matter as much. But now there's Apple releasing triple A games on iPhone, success of steam deck, AMD building increasingly more powerful iGPUs in their mobile APUs such as used by ROG Ally and future strix successor handhelds, Intel working on lunar lake, the continued interest by multiple partners/OEMs in building future successor handhelds in a new and growing market- Valve, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI etc.

b) they still aren't taking orders of the custom silicon Tegra Orin chip that was completely years ago. Nintendo is just sitting there, refusing to take orders and keeps on selling original switch h/w based on Tegra X1. At this point the arch is so old Nvidia probably does not want to even produce it anymore and is forced to keep such factories online solely pretty much only for Nintendo. They probably feel it was an almost wasted effort investing all that time, money and resources for R&D on custom silicon only for it to not really show up anywhere in timely manner.

Also makes Nvidia look bad and they don't like losing, at least not on their home turf (which used to be gaming). But Nintendo have delayed it so much that by the time it releases it will almost put Nvidia in a bad showing or light. People may think Nvidia isn't as premium of graphics brand anymore, at least not when it comes to mobile graphics for handhelds.

In all honesty tho, Nvidia is making so much from data center AI atm, that I don't think they're too worried or concerned and this is largely just gossip that isn't true. They're making way more money than Nintendo from non-gaming revenue alone. Could completely quit gaming graphics division for 5 years and then come back with the trillions they've now.

But I guess better to be safe than sorry. Nvidia does not want to make the same mistake as Intel. AI bubble won't last forever. There's only so many RTX 4090 buyers out there and due to current economic conditions not everyone is comfortable dropping $2.5k on laptops just to game. There is a massive potential market for <$699 device to run pc games well, which Nintendo isn't catering to and Nvidia sees it.