Pixel 2 XL cats samples
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/google-pixel-2-xl-smartphone-camera-sample-photos--31998
@DrDave Only a small percentage of people even realize or care that it's a mono mic. No monetary benefit to Google in adding a nice feature like mic input. Those days are long gone...
Here's an idea--instead of getting rid of the headphone jack, add a stereo mic input instead of this mono garbage. After all, you could use it as a video cam really easy with a basic stereo input.
Article about stabilization OIS+EIS
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/11/fused-video-stabilization-on-pixel-2.html
Full size photos
So Google also moves to exactly same 12mp sensor as Samsung and iPhone.
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