TECH NEWS – It is hard to believe, but even on Google’s own flagship phone, getting the camera to behave properly inside Google’s apps can be a headache.

Android has a uniquely frustrating way of forcing people to use the native camera app directly instead of third-party applications. This annoyance clearly extends to the Pixel 10 series and Google’s own apps. On Reddit, user lemikeone highlighted a common complaint about Android phones, particularly Pixel devices: the Pixel 10 Pro’s native camera cannot reach its full potential within Google’s apps.

They tried taking a photo inside the Gemini app to ask about an object in low-light conditions, but every shot came out blurry. Interestingly, when they took the same shot using the native camera app, the result was perfect. The user then had to take that photo and upload it manually to the Gemini app, which is a rather cumbersome process. Because of the specific nature of the Google algorithms embedded in the Pixel 10’s native camera app, some concessions can be made for third-party apps. Nevertheless, one would reasonably expect Google’s own apps to fully leverage the camera API. That is not the case, which is understandably frustrating.

It’s getting ridiculous: even Google’s own apps can’t use the Pixel 10 Pro camera properly
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The Tensor G5 SoC (system on a chip) in the Pixel 10 product line uses TSMC’s 3 nm manufacturing technology and Imagination’s IMG DXT-48-1536 GPU. The chip has not lived up to expectations, though, primarily because it lacks a vapor chamber and ray tracing support, and because Google still depends on Imagination for basic driver updates and hardware-specific code. Nevertheless, the November and December updates to the Pixel 10’s Android operating system have visibly improved device performance. Interestingly, the Android 16 QPR2 update introduced the Generational Concurrent Mark-Compact (CMC) garbage collector to the series, which improves how memory is freed and reduces overall CPU usage in the process.

The November update boosted the performance of the Pixel 10 lineup, but the December update introduced a serious bug for some users: the display freezes when the phone has been idle for a while and the screen is off. Hopefully, Google will stop breaking things with every incremental patch and finally get its act together.

Source: WCCFTech