When the Nexus 5 debuted in late October, one of the handset's chief selling pionts was its cutting-edge image capabilities. However, Mountain View's newfound emphasis on high-caliber imaging may extend beyond hardware and deep down into the bowels of KitKat.
According to a report on CNET, Android's the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) in Google's altest release includes support for raw images and burst modes, and these capabilities will be made available to developers in a future update.
While this is a hopeful note for photographers and other creative types who would like to utilize the world's most popular mobile OS, Android has clearly fallen far behind iOS and even the newly spec-spolosive Windows Phones in the high end photography game.
"Android currently has the worst base-line cameras out there, meaning phone [manufacturers] have to do a lot of work to make them acceptable," said analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insight & Strategy. "HTC and LG have done a decent job shoring up the shortcomings, but iOS and Windows are clearly on top."
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