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Improve your smartphone photography: What is metering?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Digging through our viewer mailbag, we got a question about photography.Does your OP3 over expose & blow out areas not in focus when u tap to focus?-TGCHave you ever focused a phone camera at an object and then produced a photo which was way too bright or too dark? We’ve gotten several questions about this “bug” on various smartphone cameras, and we’re sorry to say this is probably a feature, not a bug.The issue is likely metering, and understanding how your camera decides to adjust exposure based on what you focus on. Let’s dig into this setting on your ...

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Dropbox brings its Mailbox app to Android users

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

This time last year, Dropbox had just bought Orchestra, the company behind Mailbox, the popular email app for iOS. At the time, the Dropbox team posted an announcement of the news, mentioning the desire to see Mailbox get “into as many people’s hands as possible.” Well, moving beyond the iOS user base sounds like a prime way to do just that, and today Dropbox announced a “new chapter” for Mailbox with the debut of an Android port. Mailbox for Android is in the Play Store as of right now, free for you to install. At ...

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Thoughts on Mailbox After a Week of Use (Video)

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Brandon Miniman

You might have heard of Mailbox: an iPhone-only app that claims to change the way we use email. Even if you want to use it right now, you can’t, unless you were among the first to reserve your spot in line. If you download the app today, you’re looking at an 800,000 person line. Orchestra (parent company of Mailbox) is doing this to ensure that their servers can handle the processing of millions of emails; Mailbox does some server-side action to compress your emails, strip out unnecessary stuff, and push it to your phone in an attempt to provide a fast email experience. And ...

The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 031

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Michael Fisher

Rarely has the “lull” between trade shows given us so much to talk about. We kicked off the week with an exciting announcement welcoming two new members to the Pocketnow team, and since then we’ve barely been able to keep news, editorials, and videos on the front page long enough to read them. This feed is on fire. From ever-strengthening rumors about the HTC M7 and Samsung Galaxy S IV, to interviews with newcomers like Jolla, to new looks at old friends with BlackBerry 10, to ...