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Tech Talk: How does a tiny smartphone camera take such good photos?

Minature marvels.

That data gets sent to specialized chips and software from companies like Google, Apple, or Qualcomm read and adjust those numbers to try and make a perfect arrangement of all the pixels of color. The software is a lot more important than the hardware because a stream of light information is constantly changing; capturing it perfectly doesn't matter as much as what you turn it into. (Image credit: Android Central)Electronics aside, the important reason why we love the pics our phones take is more practical: The source is matched to the destination.

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