OnePlus 9R Review, Sony's New Xperia Lineup, and a Look at CV-ISP Camera Processing | Cell Guru By NDTV

Welcome to the cell guru show- and this is a great show- I mean, as you can see, the location is a little different, but the show, as always, is absolutely fantastic. So what all do I have for you today? Lots and lots of things? First, the one plus nine are the much awaited economy version of the OnePlus series, so in terms of aesthetics in terms of overall looks in terms of everything else. The design language and the overall look is very much one plus nine, but this is more economical, more budget friendly. So should you be buying this? What are the main advantages of this versus all the others? I'll take you through. All of that, then, we'll move on to something that you did not expect, and that is Sony Xperia about to come up with three new phones. Yes, Sony and its Xperia line still exists.

I thought they were gone. I thought like lg, they were gone. They just didn't announce it, but they're back in the three phones. Look pretty good, then we'll move on to something very interesting that is going to take your smartphone, your camera phone photography to a whole new level, and that is something called the CV. ISP I'll explain it you're going to love it and last, but not the least.

In fact, one of the most important things I'm going to make sure that your phone actually gives you the battery life that the brands actually promise. Let's get started with today's sale guru show: let's get started with today's top story. This is the OnePlus 9r much awaited a lot of people have been really waiting for it because, like I said the design language, the overall phone is pretty much one plus nine anything that you're looking for in the OnePlus 9 series. It's there. It's got a perfect screen: 6.55 inch, FHD AMOLED screen, 120 hertz, refresh rate design language, like I said, OnePlus 9, lineup, snapdragon, 870 priced at under 40, 000, quad, camera and, of course the best part of it is that this could actually be a phone that you could look for. If you want great power, because the 870 from snapdragon is absolutely great, a gaming phone at under 40 000 rupees good-looking because it's got all the one plus aesthetics that have really made the OnePlus 9 the rest of the series look very good.

So I'm really thinking I mean. Could this really be a major replacement for anything that you were thinking of under 40, 000 rupees, because at one time one plus used to really play there now, of course, they've taken their other phones to a different price bracket? But, frankly speaking, I really, really like the phone. Let's take a look at our review like most brands. OnePlus has a ticktock release cycle of phones, but, as the brand makes moves towards the premium segment with the OnePlus 9 pro, it also doesn't want to alienate its core audience. The never settling performance seekers in comes the OnePlus 9r, a value-focused smartphone that still claims to offer flagship, great thrills, but at a much lower price.

But the competition is fierce and performance alone isn't enough to make a phone stand out anymore. Let's take a look if the OnePlus 9r is a winner or not. OnePlus is keeping the visual identity of the OnePlus 9r in line with the rest of the 9 series lineup, with some concessions. While the camera module looks similar, it gets rid of the chrome rings. There's gorilla glass 5 at the back and front you get all the essentials like the trademark alert slider, as well as dual speakers that sound great the phone looks good, but not at one plus nine pro levels.

OnePlus is using a 6.55 inch. Super ammo LED FHD screen with a refresh rate of 120 hertz. This is the same excellent panel as on the OnePlus 8t, and it continues to do a brilliant job. Colors are vibrant, but natural. Looking a peak brightness of 1100 nits makes the phone easy to view outdoors.

Meanwhile, the 120 hertz refresh rate makes the interface look buttery smooth you just can't go back performance. The OnePlus 9r has it in spades. The phone employs a snapdragon 870 chipsets, which isn't really all that new. In fact, it's the same as the snapdragon 865 plus from the OnePlus 8t, but in a higher state of tune, you'll get a performance boost in day-to-day use, as well as some specific tasks. High-End games run just a bit smoother.

You can almost consider the r to be a gaming phone at under 40 000. Oxygen. Os is extremely well optimized, and it's a joy to use. We did not, however, like the constant nags to join OnePlus services like the red cable club, cut it out. OnePlus keeping the phone going all day is a 4500 my battery that proved to be sufficient for a full day of use in our testing.

The phone XLS are charging with 65 watt support that has it topped up in a jiffy 40 minutes to be exact and finally, the cameras OnePlus has opted to use the same camera setup as on the OnePlus 8t, and this includes a 48mp primary camera, 16mp ultrawide sensor, 5mp macro and 2mp depth. Sensor. Photographs in broad daylight are fine. In some scenes the camera boosts colors just a bit too much making it look unnatural indoors. The images are good, but sometimes an image lacks a little detail and contrast.

The ultrawide sensor takes nicely detailed images, but there is a noticeable white balance shift between the sensors and finally, the macro camera does the trick with very usable 5mp close-ups, all in all, the 9r basically lives up to what OnePlus was aiming for, a phone that carries forward the OnePlus 9 series, legacy of style and design with almost all that you want in a high performance package, it is an appealing alternative to the other two OnePlus 9 phones with most of the performance at a significantly lower price, with 5g still quite far away. The 9r is an exciting option for performance and gaming phone seekers with a starting price of 39999 rupees. Let's move on to our next story, and this is a very interesting story, so how many of you remember the name, Sony opera! Look, I'm just joking. Of course everybody remembers it, but didn't you think it was gone? Didn't you think that that's pretty much it like lg they've just walked away now, three new phones being launched by them? Three new Xperia phones- and you know quite a few great things in it. I mean 4k displays snapdragon, 88, very good cameras, some really cool stuff.

I mean Sony seems to be wanting to come back and come back with a big, big bang. So three new phones, let's take a look at what they're about to do. Sony has announced its smartphone lineup for 2021 and with three exciting phones. We are here for it: the lineup showcases, the Sony, Xperia 1, mark 3, the Xperia 5 mark iii and the Xperia 10 mark iii, while the prices for all three devices are yet to be revealed the phone themselves pack a lot of hardware, it will be exciting to see how Sony competes with the heavyweights, like Samsung, Xiaomi and VIVO for market share, starting off with the Xperia 1 mark 3. This is the most premium device of the lot.

The phone features a 6.5 inch, 4k HDR screen with 120 hertz, refresh rate and in true Sony fashion. It has a cinema wide display with a 21 to 9 aspect ratios. What makes headlines here is the camera system at the back. Sony has put a 12 megapixel primary sensor, a 12 megapixel secondary sensor that has variable telephoto purchase and a third 12 megapixel ultra-wide lens, all in partnership with mass optics. There is dedicated shutter button on the phone and Sony aims.

You will ditch your DSLR and work with the phone instead under the hood is the snapdragon 888, the Xperia 1 mark iii also comes equipped with a 3.5 mm headphone jack that has support for premium audio next in line is the Xperia 5 mark iii, the middle child of the 2021 lineup. This one ditches the 4k screen for a 6.1-inch full HD plus display but retains the same camera functionality of the Xperia 1 mark iii. The phone is also powered by the snapdragon 888 and has a 120 hertz refresh rate. The last one in line is the Xperia 10 mark iii, a more budget-friendly offering in the 2021 Sony lineup gone is the powerful snapdragon 888 the Xperia x, mark iii will ship with a snapdragon 690 chips. The phone also has a smaller footprint, with a 6 inch, full HD plus display it also trades in the flashy camera sensors for a more subtle, triple camera system, with a 12, megapixel main lens and eight megapixel secondary lens and a third eight megapixel sensor for ultraviolet all three phones pack in a 4500 my battery.

So it will be interesting to see how well the battery does, especially on the highest end. Xperia 1 mark 3, with its 4k HDR panel, as well as the powerful camera system on the back, and now I'm going to do a little of magic right. The magic is one. What I'm about to show you- and the second, is that I'm here, but for this story we'll also go somewhere else, we'll go on to the Qualcomm segment and the Qualcomm studio. Now I want to talk to you about something very interesting.

A CV. ISP now may sound complicated jargon, but you know it's actually amazing, because this is where camera phone photography will take a leap. Literally. What you see in the display of your phone is exactly what you're going to get. Let's take a look time and time again, we've spoken about how impressive smartphone cameras are becoming nowadays, if there's one area that is seeing constant development in a smartphone market, it's always in the optics section, look at the kind of phones we are getting now.

Companies are pouring in multiple hours of r d and so many resources into creating a smartphone camera, that's better than the rest and best of the best. But what's the ultimate goal here? What's the objective? How good does a smartphone camera really need to be? We've seen cameras change from one to four, sometimes even more now we phone that have 108 megapixel lenses that can capture incredible detail. Can then zoom into a shot like a pro DSLR telephoto lens artificial intelligence has also been used in cameras and AI based engines are being used to improve color accuracy. Depth perception so much more right, employing AI in the camera pipeline has numerous advantages like improved processing, better looking shots. Ai also has helped to get more stable shots improved night photography, but at the end of the day, we're still not satisfied, and we want more and more from the cameras on our phones.

The end goal, I think, is to improve camera performance so much that it mimics the human eye. I'm going to give you some very interesting stats out here. I am the ultimate guide for a smartphone camera or any camera for that matter. The highest resolution of a smartphone camera right now, 108 megapixel right and the resolution of the human eye at least 576 megapixels, that's the calculation that is being done nowadays, so there's still a fair bit to go out here now. This is where computer vision, image, signal, processor or CV ISPS now come in.

The idea here is to move image, processing innovation from within the image signal processor, just like your eyes, which will ultimately help the overall processing power of the camera itself with CV ISP. You can expect much faster image processing, as it will happen in real time in the viewfinder, and you can see it before you even click the shot. What you see is exactly what you get, rather than having to wait for the image to finish, processing and then seeing the end result. CV ISP, reduces processing time and allows you to click more pictures of your favorite moment, as you will no longer have to worry about what the post-processed image will look like in simple words, computer vision, ISP means what you see in the camera. Viewfinder is exactly like.

I said what you get having a computer vision. ISP means that the plain old ISP processor gets a big boost to overall performance, as well as enabling a number of new use cases with CV. ISP things like multi-object tracking comes to the fourth, as your phone will be able to track two or three, maybe more objects, all in real time. CV ISP also helps with portrait shots, as it helps the phone in determining even more accurately. What's the background? What's the foreground, what subject is to be kept in focus, since many of these use cases can be processed within the ISP hardware? This can also be executed at very low power.

This is important, especially when using battery heavy features like capturing 4k, video or shooting at 60 frames per second now, in today's episode, we're going to go and find out from Qualcomm how they're executing a computer vision ISP on their processor, we're going to find out how enabling these superior camera techniques on the snapdragon mobile platform is actually panning out. So let's go and talk to Lakshmi Jayapura, who is the VP engineering, Qualcomm, India, private limited dream? Thank you so much for joining us. My first question is all about snapdragon. You know it's been providing a number of innovative camera features year after year now we're hearing of a brand-new innovation, a game changer called computer vision ISP. What does that do exactly hey Rajiv, the CV part of the CV? ISP is all about the camera, understanding what it sees when the camera understands the scene, then it can map the photographer's intent to the same in a much better way.

Once the camera gains that awareness, the CV functions will enable any use case that the photographer is conceiving by finding key objects in the scene. Tracking points of interest, computing depth, information and understanding, motion of the camera and its objects, all of it in real time, just like the way, our eyes view and process the data feeding information to the brain today, conceptually there is no difference, it's exact same okay and what use cases are enabled by CV. ISP, yeah Rajiv, the CV ISP enables any use case requiring depth or motion information from the scene and to code some examples of the top of my head depth: processing from stereo cams for both effects, object or face recognition, motion, processing for noise reduction in FNR motion compensation, filtering techniques for CTF image, stabilization features like as or even HDR, mph HDR. For that matter, the other ones are object tracking to track people or points of interest points in your room when you are wearing VR goggles, enabling six stop movement through virtual spaces, departing warping or translating image frames to correct the lens effects. All these are closely tied to CB processing.

So, obviously, my next question then, is about AI. Does the use of CV ISP now diminish the use case of AI on the devices? Will we now rely less on AI good question? Rajiv answer is yes and no. The CV part of the crisp can be viewed as a hardware accelerator of what could also be done in AI, but the idea here is to offload these key camera functions, to see the ISP so that the AI engine can be freed up to perform other innovative tasks. Our customers and partners wish to implement on the device, and we see this every day as we work very closely with our Isis and OEMs and ODMs. So what we do typically is that for a given use case, we work together with them on the design to design the software splitting the workloads between these two hardware blocks for optimal power and performance gains for any given use case.

We do this every day and how are AI and CVS being used together in conjugation with each other here, to quote some examples, the CV ISP may be calculating depth and understanding elements in the scene, while the AI engine is segmenting them or rendering objects into the virtual space or the CV. ISP may very well be providing cues and motion in the scene, while the AI engine is performing advanced noise reduction for video or performing low light correction for a snapshot, so really the CV ISP commonly works in conjunction with the AI engine in all of our snapdragon devices. Thank you Lakshmi. Thank you very much for joining us on the show today, thanks Rajiv, for the opportunity to introduce some of our CV, ISP features and how we are enabling millions of users to capture what their naked eye sees great talking to you. Thank you.

Let's now talk to and Sharma, the country director for Poco India, I, and thank you so much for joining us on the show and many congratulations on the launch of your brand new Poco x3 pro. What can users look forward to in this new smartphone? Well, thank you Rajiv, and thank you for having us now. We are very excited about the launch of the Poco x3 pro. In fact, the Poco x3 pro thanks to the Qualcomm snapdragon 860, becomes the most powerful phone ever launched under 20k in India, but not just that. You also get great overall experience in terms of gaming multitasking and, of course, you get a really, really good camera and let's talk about the camera experience so important now for consumers, what is the main difference in the camera on the x3 pro, so the Poco x3 pro uses computer vision, ISP or CV ISP feature that comes on the Qualcomm snapdragon 860, and this gives you an overall enhanced user experience when it comes to the camera performance.

Now, with the advanced CV ISP, you can capture lifelike images straight on your phone now, the CV ISP and the advanced AI is automatically able to detect the object that you are trying to shoot. It could be people, pets, buildings, landscape or flowers, etc. , and it automatically changes the image parameters to give you the best possible shot every single time. Furthermore, during low light conditions, the camera is automatically able to adjust the brightness and contrast to give you that best shot, and this does not come at the expense of loss of colors or even added noise. Okay, what about video will users be able to see a difference in video experience videography with the CV ISP this new technology? Absolutely when it comes to video here again, you can see some amazing video effects thanks to the CV ISP on the snapdragon 860.

Now video clones let you create a twin of yourself when you're shooting on the XD pro now dual video lets you fire up cameras on both sides, the rear camera and the selfie camera, so that you're able to share the story from both angles. At the same time, thanks to the advanced processing that you see here now, the overall motion processing is also smoothened. Thanks to the CV, ISP features that you see on the xv pro. Thank you so much. I know it's great to have you on the show with me today and to wrap it all up the most important part of your phone's battery life on a phone very, very critical, very important, but somehow you know with battery technology, changing your, getting 6000 7000, my battery, and you're, also getting very fast charging time.

There's still some level of dissatisfaction out there, because somehow, when you buy a phone, you feel you're going to get x amount of hours or days, but somehow you don't get it. So. Here's where we come in we're here to help how to improve battery life on phones, despite the ever-increasing battery sizes on the latest smartphones' battery life, is an age-old concern. After all, the more powerful phones get the more you use them and who doesn't like long battery life, but with great power comes great responsibility and phones. Both android and iOS often fail to live up to the task.

Here's what you can do to make sure your phone's battery lasts just a bit longer dark mode. Now, most modern phones, ship with AMOLED displays, and these displays zip a fraction of the power when displaying darker content using a dark mode theme drastically reduces power, consumption so head to your phone settings and activate it. You should also opt for darker wallpaper now. The second way to do this is brightness similar to the theme. High brightness levels can deplete your battery in a jiffy not only battery life, but this can also be damaging to your eyes.

Use the auto brightness or adaptive brightness feature on your phone for optimal brightness levels and better battery life. The third way is adaptive battery now AI is everywhere, and that includes how your phone manages apps less of a problem on iOS, make sure you head over to the adaptive battery setting on your android phone and turn it on it takes a few days, but once the phone learns your usage patterns, you should notice much improved longevity now disable the sensors. This is a very important point. Looking out to eke out the maximum battery life possible vibration motors can quickly put a dent in battery life while typing now the same goes for constant notifications, disabling vibrations. Putting the phone in silent mode can earn you some precious minutes of battery life when needed.

The same goes for radios like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and NFC switch them off when not needed, and the last way power save mode. Now practically every phone comes with one built in, and the power save mode can earn you hours in battery life by reducing the speed of the processor and shutting non-essential processes. I wouldn't recommend keeping it on all the time because it can delay notifications, but the feature works very well as a last resort. So there you go. These five techniques should help you get the maximum out of your phone and ensure that you've got some charge left over when you need it.

The most. That, then, was the sell guru show for this week, but we've got great stuff coming up next week. Do join me, Rajiv making, on the show.

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