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Smartphone cameras get smarter

Get ready for sharper selfies, said Youkyung Lee in the Associated Press. Following similar moves by Sony and Nokia, Samsung announced that it has “beefed up the camera” in its Galaxy S5 smartphone, adding “smarter camera software” meant to greatly improve the quality of Samsung snapshots. Samsung and other manufacturers hope the upgraded cameras will bring smartphone photos “closer in quality to images captured by digital single-lens reflex cameras.” That has long been a big technological challenge in a market that has been focused on selling ever-thinner phones. Now “the gap is getting narrower thanks mainly to improvements in camera software and other technologies.”

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