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New Galaxy S6 Update Will Anger Apple

Looking to steal a march on its biggest Android competitors, Samsung will lift one of the iPhone’s slickest advanced camera features.

 

According to samMobile, the Android 5.1 update to Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge phones will soon offer a much simpler way of adjusting exposure – one which will look very familiar to iPhone users.

With the launch of the iOS 8 Apple AAPL -1.11% gave third-party app developers access to manual camera controls, allowing photo enthusiasts to tweak their exposure settings for extra creative flair. Despite this, the built-in camera app remained resolutely automatic, save for one key feature.

Known to photographers as "manual exposure compensation”, this feature allows iPhone users to slide a finger up and down on the screen to vary the brightness of the image at the time they are taking it. It was a brilliant move by Apple… and now the Samsung Galaxy S6 does it too.

Samsung’s new camera feature

SamMobile sources explain that the Galaxy S6’s forthcoming Android 5.1 update brings with it an exposure slider almost identical to the one found on the iPhone. Screen shots from a pre-release version of the update show a vertical slider to the right of the focus point, but with the sunburst icon, found on the iPhone, replaced by a small lightbulb on the Galaxy S6. The functionality remains the same, just slide a finger up or down to achieve your prefered level of brightness in the final image.

Until now Samsung has taken a radically different approach to Apple. By giving the user the option of complete manual control over the exposure, the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge can offer an experience much closer to that of a compact camera. But, such a degree of control requires the novice user to switch to a complicated Pro mode and grapple with some quite intimidating settings.

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Everyone is familiar with the concept of a "brightness” control, so to avoid confusing casual users with camera jargon, the vertical adjustment slider is simple and intuitive to use, yet can make a huge difference to the final image, especially in backlit situations. Furthermore, if you don’t need it, you won’t even know it’s there. It adds genuinely useful functionality without any extra perceived complexity.

Simplicity trumps complexity, but it’s good to have both.

The camera is one of the most important features in the battle for smartphone supremacy, and it’s not uncommon to see vendors borrowing features from one another. Both Samsung and LG have radically improved their underlying camera hardware and, at the same time, piled on a raft of extra features - but sometimes it’s simplicity which will win the day, and this latest addition from Samsung only goes to show that Apple is still on point when it comes to ease of use.

Apple need not worry too much however, as any new camera features making use of the rumoured Force Touch capability of the forthcoming iPhone 6S would be tricky for others to copy. 

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Source: http://www.forbes.com/most-popular/

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