Nexus 5: Android 4.4.1 improves the photographs - Tom's Hardware Guide

Google has released the Android 4.4.1 update to the products of the Nexus, or Nexus 4, Nexus 5, 7 Nexus and Nexus 10. This is an update designed to resolve some minor flaws of Kitkat and in particular to offer something more to the front of the camera while convincing Nexus 5 (review).

home of Mountain View is about a focus much faster and a faster shutter, with a less intensive use of the image stabilization (OIS) with respect to what happens with Android 4.4 . This means that photos taken with the Nexus 5 will have less motion blur and flicker .

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Google has also revised the white balance and exposure algorithms . The home of Mountain View has also worked to speed up the opening of the application camera, which has a new indicator of progress in HDR mode +, showing you the progress of the processing of the image.

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As stated by David Burke, Director of Engineering of Android, five weeks were needed to complete the upgrade and make sure that everything was working the right way. Finally, we note that the net talking about the resolution of a bug that prevented to properly use an Exchange account with the default email program for Android and a bug related to the face unlock camera that requires a restart of the app to work properly.

Nexus 5: Android 4.4.1 improves the photographs - Tom's Hardware Guide