Apparently Apple and Xiaomi recognize a need in smartphones that I personally don’t quite see yet. Video functions ran like a red thread through the first launches in the tech fall. The question arises: Who is filming with the smartphone at all and if so, do you really use the integrated camera app? Let’s go to the poll of the week on NextPit.
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As nice as these features are to look at, one question arises for me: Who is actually filming with their smartphone? I don’t mean recording short videos for friends on WhatsApp or for followers on Instagram. I mean complex videos with the integrated camera app, in which the background has to be blurred or you need a vertigo effect à la Alfred Hitchcock.
Do you film with your smartphone?
So let’s start with the main question: do you record videos with your mobile phone? This means recordings that consciously land on your memory as memories and that were recorded with the camera app. So those recordings where you would benefit from the fresh video functions of Apple and Xiaomi.
Personally, I tend to record videos like this to test new smartphones. In our test reports, however, the video functions are generally something that we tend to neglect. But maybe that will change if it turns out that the NextPit community consists of amateur filmmakers. But let’s not wait any longer and look at the next question!
The cinema mode seems to have really high demands on the hardware. / © NextPit
Do you use the internal camera app?
When I was recently for NextPit at the scooter manufacturer Unu, I recorded a short story on Instagram. When you’re out and about, it’s much easier to take a brief impression of places or products using the integrated video function of the social media app. The same applies if you just want to capture a nice moment for the family group on WhatsApp, Telegram or Snapchat. So my follow-up question:
Last but not least, I would like to give a brief opinion on the obvious importance of video features in smartphones. This theory then has to be tested next Monday – of course I am interested in your opinion here as well.
Thesis: Video features as a demo for smartphone performance
It is possible that smartphone manufacturers are not responding to a demand with their new video features. Smartphone hardware is now so powerful that it can hardly be pushed to its limits in everyday life. This is only the case with mobile games or with video functions. Apple’s new cinema mode, for example, is so demanding that Apple cannot provide older iPhones with the feature due to insufficient performance.
My steep thesis is therefore that the video functions represent a possibility for manufacturers to create a need for new devices, although older models can still display most apps and mobile games smoothly. They legitimize the use of ever stronger processors, larger memory options and more gigabytes of RAM. Do you agree with me?
But now “shut up!” or whatever they say in the film industry. I’m particularly looking forward to your input in the comments this week and I almost hope that I’ve put on my blinkers here. So by Monday at the latest, when we evaluate this survey.
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