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Realmes next phone could support swappable camera lenses

Mashable Tech

Smartphone manufacturers are battling it out for camera supremacy, but the key to it may end up being modularity. Sure, most people won't want to shell out for modular camera attachments on their phones, but those who do might end up getting far better image quality. It’s also not the only modular camera concept from MWC 2025.

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Gemini Live will learn to peer through your camera lens in a few weeks

Ars Technica

You'll be able to open your camera to provide Gemini Live a video stream or share your screen as a live video, thus allowing you to pepper Gemini with questions about what it sees. However, its ability to accept video as an input is spotty at bestsometimes it can summarize a YouTube video, and sometimes it can't, for unknown reasons.

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Lunar Eclipse 2025: How to take the best blood moon photos with your phone

Mashable Tech

Thankfully, phone cameras have gotten really good over the years – and there's no reason you can't capture a solid photo with a decently modern phone. Some things are very simple – clean your camera lens, and if your phone has one, shoot in RAW mode. The highest-end Samsung phones these days have two telephoto cameras.

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This Modular Phone Concept Is Xiaomi’s Plan to Kill the Camera Bump

Wired

If you hate the big camera bump of today's smartphones, you'll love the detachable lens of Xiaomis Modular Optical System.

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Hands on with the worlds thinnest smartphone

Mashable Tech

millimeters (that's if you don't count the camera bump, of course), the Spark Slim feels like something you could use to cut tomatoes (in absence of knives and other cutting paraphernalia, of course). The camera bump is thankfully minimal. Credit: Stan Schroeder / Mashable Measuring just 5.75

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5 reasons the iPhone 16e is worth the upgrade

Mashable Tech

Better camera What you shouldn't expect from an iPhone 16e is a camera array that's anything close to what the iPhone 16 Pro offers. Just remember you need to be looking at the camera with your eyes for it to work most of the time. The bezel is smaller than it was on the SE, too. However, compared to the SE, it's a huge upgrade.

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The best webcams for 2025

Engadget

Weve rounded up the best webcams for every type of user, whether you need a professional setup for Zoom calls or a high-resolution camera for streaming on Twitch. Ultimately, with 4K webcam shots having such limited use, most people can get by with a solid 1080p camera.

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