More Pics Leak of HTC M8 Confirming New Camera System

[dgstorm]

Each day it seems like a battle of the leaks between HTC and Samsung. It's almost as if the leaks for the Galaxy S5 and the M8 are vying for our attention. At any rate, this latest leak is supposedly two new pics of the HTC M8. We have a single shot of the front and one of the back. The front one looks almost identical to the HTC One, and the back side is just like the previous rumors showing the dual camera sensors and dual LED flash.

As you can see from the pics, there are some other subtle differences between this device and its predecessor, the HTYC One. It appears that the ambient light and proximity sensors are now positioned to the right on this device. Other than that (and anything else we can figure out in the shots), these leaked pics didn't come with any new info on specs.

Hmmm... is that a Spiderman wallpaper we see on this leaked device? Seems so. Despite this, we highly doubt this is an official "hint" of any type of cross-promotion partnership with the upcoming Spiderman 2 movie. Remember, the Spiderman franchise is owned and published by Sony Pictures. It seems unlikely that Sony would partner up with a competitor in the mobile world, even for a movie promo.

Source: PhoneArena

 

[gadgetrants]

I guess, somewhere along the way, I missed the reason for the dual-camera sensors. Can someone enlighten me?

-Matt

 

[cobravnm13]

I guess, somewhere along the way, I missed the reason for the dual-camera sensors. Can someone enlighten me?

-Matt

To get those awesomely fantastic glamour shots, of course!




Idk, I'm wondering the same thing.

 

[gadgetrants]

LOL Well, I assume it's not (thankfully) for 3D. And there's already a front-facing camera, so the low-res on the back can't be for the same purpose as the front camera. Doesn't leave too much...the only thing I can come up with is it's some kind of more-powerful-than-usual sensor for gathering pre-shot data, like ambient light, white-balance, background/foreground focus, etc.

-Matt

 

[grizzy3]

Looks like they got rid of the hideous black HTC bar on the front.

 

[gadgetrants]

\BeginRationalization

TBH, I have two functional icons/buttons on mine: a back and a home button...but the home button has three functions = (1) home, (2) recents (long-press) and (3) Google Now/Search (swipe up). It's completely automatic at this point, so sure it'd be nice to swap out the HTC logo with proper home and recent buttons, but yeah it's not too much of a hassle.

\EndRationalization

-Matt

 

[Rhino94]

I guess, somewhere along the way, I missed the reason for the dual-camera sensors. Can someone enlighten me?

-Matt

Its for 3D thats how HTC does 3D pictures. I'm not a fan of it at all. I really wanted the HTC but if its 3D you can forget it. I'm also not a fan of the of the front facing camera being off to the right a little bit

 

[gadgetrants]

Aw man I deliberately wasn't googling it for exactly that reason. Couldn't you be the bearer of better news?

-Matt

 

[Rhino94]

Aw man I deliberately wasn't googling it for exactly that reason. Couldn't you be the bearer of better news?

-Matt

Now HTC says it isnt a 3D camera but like many websites are saying right now I believe it is.

 

[Dusty]

It's for dual image portraits...

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[gadgetrants]

^^^ BEST post ever. For today, anyway.

-Matt

 

[pwrdbykyank]

These are pics of a dummy display unit (fake in store display model) of the htc one 2. Keep in mind the resolution quality of the LCD, plus the little things like the no signal, 35% battery plus the bottom on screen buttons are just a bubbly design and its just a standard based picture printed on the plastic, not actually the LCD displaying the content. Thanks for sharing this though, phone should be releasing closer than we know it

 

[gadgetrants]

Oh wow, just stumbled on to some interesting speculation on the dual-sensor camera...

HTC M8 (HTC One 2) specs, price, release date, news & rumours | Expert Reviews

Of all the leaked images seen so far, the biggest surprise was the one suggesting the HTC One 2 may ship with two rear camera sensors. This would either give the handset Lytro-like refocussing abilities, allowing you to change the point of focus after you've taken a photo for more creative shots, or improve low light performance even further than Ultrapixels alone. Toshiba has a smartphone light field camera sensor which suggests this could be a possibility, but with no further details it stays a rumour for now.

A light-field camera would be insanely cool.

-Matt

 

[gadgetrants]

And some more data/speculation suggesting the M8 dual-sensor camera could be very cool:

Dual-lens smartphone cameras are coming, and this is why we want one

One camera. Two separate lenses. That's the conundrum raised by leaked images of HTC's forthcoming M8 smartphone, which is rumored to bring some interesting new imaging features that go far beyond mere 3D. But what could those features be? For an answer, we turned to a startup called Corephotonics, which is currently pitching precisely such a dual-lens concept to smartphone makers. The company's representatives told us that they're not behind the specific module in the M8 -- that camera must be coming from some other rival or from within HTC itself -- but they were keen to show us what their module could do for image quality, if it was ever put to work inside a smartphone or compact camera.

The big trick here is Corephotonics' use of two lenses with two different focal lengths. One lens is wide-angle, while the other is at 3x zoom. This means you can switch lenses to magnify more distant subjects without resorting to digital zoom. In the test set-up shown in the video above, which compared the dual-lens system side-by-side with a traditional smartphone camera (with both modules pointed at a test card around a foot away), the Corephotonics system outputted a clear 13-megapixel image regardless of whether it was at 1x or 3x zoom.

By contrast, Nokia's PureView cameras rely solely on digital zoom such that outputting a 3x magnified image entails a drop in resolution down to five megapixels. Corephotonics' system can also deliver smooth zooms, for example during video recording, by employing a mix of digital zoom and lens-switching.

The second benefit to using two parallel lenses, each with its own sensor, is improved low-light performance. Corephotonics' software works in real-time to match each pixel from one lens with the corresponding pixel from the other lens, and it uses scene analysis to detect which pixel is likely to be closer to the truth. As a result, noise is reduced and we end up with a cleaner picture -- just as we would if we had one big imaging sensor instead of two little ones.

The third and final advantage is one we've touched on very briefly already: Having two lenses enables a degree of depth analysis. Although "3D" has become something of a dirty word of late, depth analysis allows for extra control over images, such automatically blurring out of backgrounds in portrait shots, quicker autofocus and augmented reality. Add all these things up and you get a technology with real promise, which could well explain why HTC has drilled an extra hole of the back of the M8 -- even if it's not a Corephotonics-sized hole just yet.

-Matt