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Nilay predicts that few smartphone makers will offer artistic HDR interpretation controls like Google's camera looks.

Nilay Patel · The Vergecast · Aug 12, 2026

“And I think that in terms of just differentiating this phone, saying, actually, there's a lot of different ways to do HDR. You can get a lot of different looks out of computational photography and we're not gonna pick the average so we're always right. We're gonna let you pick a literal artistic interpretation. At like, in the smartphone camera market right now, there are very few players doing that.”

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