Sony Starts Shipping Its Best Selfie Smartphone, The Xperia C4

[Guest]

Today, Sony announced the availability of its upper mid-range device, the Sony Xperia C4, which is also the company's best selfie smartphone so far.

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[PaulBags]

Selfie phones should find a way to protest their users from themselves, stupid people end up doing things like shooting themselves in the face or walking backwards off a cliff just to take a selfie.

 

[dstarr3]

Sigh.

 

[John Wittenberg]

Now now - Darwinism is an important part of weeding the gene pool.

 

[truerock]

Wide angle lenses take very, very bad photos. Wide angle lenses especially take horrible photos if the subject is close the lens. Only a complete moron would put a wide angle lens in a camera (except for specialty distorted photos for some artistic reason).

 

[alicepattinson]

I really want to have one and pair it with my Selfie Stick Pro.

 

[voicesaturn]

TSA will be on you just by mentioning this phone at the airport

 

[Puiucs]

why wide angle for selfies? and only 5mp? that?s just a bad combo

 

[weilin]

To all those commenting on the wide angle, it's possible/probable that the photo will be processed by software/firmware before being saved as a jpg removing the distortion. Your nose won't take up half the frame.

It wouldn't surprise me if most front cameras on phones are wide angle-ish (30-35mm), you have to be able to capture the whole face + shoulders + a bit of the background all within one arm's length distance. Every manufacturer may be depending on software to make things the right perspective to some degree.

 

[Ning3n]

...because that's what matters most in a smartphone. The "selfie" ability.

IMO, the worst part is that none of these companies that make mobile devices actually give a flying fox fart about DURABILITY. They care more about profits, features and shareholders, anymore. Than they do for product longevity.