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  • RaichuPls - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    I always thought that the A72 cores only supported LPDDR4? Mobile RAM is so confusing these days... Do they all have a dual memory controller that both supports LPDDR4 and LPDDR3 and it's just up to the OEM to decide on which? Or does it depend on the SoC design?
  • Wilco1 - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Modern CPUs don't directly connect to DRAM, so it depends on what memory controller you use in the SoC. Some SoCs only support LPDDR3, others support both LPDDR3 and LPDDR4 so it's up to the OEM.
  • Daniel Egger - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    "Finally, Kodak applied a special coating to the lenses to maximize their luminous transmission"

    Right, as if a coating could actually improve transmissivity. Must be fairy dust or something...
  • frostyfiredude - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Anti Reflective coatings do just that, they reduce reflections by increasing the transmission coefficient.
  • zodiacfml - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link

    I don't with the last part but coatings do improve lenses to minimize internal reflections that affects contrast or what others call micro contrast
  • SeannyB - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Despite the song & dance about being a photographic tool, the sensor is the same as those found in other smartphones, it has no aperture control, raw/DNG capability is unknown, and so on. Rather than be a new DMC-CM1 or Galaxy Zoom, it appears to be a regular old phone with some Kodak-licensed styling.
  • uhuznaa - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Is that big lens thingy on the back anything other than a design element? What's the focal length?
  • asfletch - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Hmm, so basically a Panasonic CM1, but 2 years late and with a 1/2.3" sensor rather than a 1" one? I wish Panasonic had persisted with the 1" sensor camera phone idea.
  • stepz - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Here is interesting idea for Panasonic - a micro four thirds camera phone. It would need to use a custom lens mount with a minimal flange distance and a flange distance adaptor. When just using it as a phone keep a body cap or a body cap style lens on it. For more fancy stuff you have a huge array of relatively compact lenses available. If you allow for a reduced imaging circle and some cropping the whole package with a body cap lens should be comparable in size to the CM1.
  • PVG - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    $500 and MediaTek on the same phone... nah...
  • pmcjones - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Interesting choice of name: the original Kodak Ektra was a system camera (rangefinder, with replaceable lenses) with the unfortunate habit that "Roughly 95% of all the 2500 or so Ektra shutters stopped working decades ago" [https://www.cameraquest.com/ektra.htm].
  • blzd - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Ouch. Ominous sign for this new Ektra?
  • Ukyo - Saturday, October 22, 2016 - link

    The photo that shows the USB slot doesn't appear to show a USB-C connector... looks like micro-usb to me.
  • MrSparkle was taken - Sunday, October 23, 2016 - link

    Silly phone with a silly idea of what type c means.
  • zodiacfml - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link

    Does not differentiate much. How much are standalone cameras anyway? A Sony RX100 starts at 500 all the way to $1000. The RX100 series has a one inch sensor. The size is decent for Kodak to start with and go all the way up to a 35mm sensor.
    I strongly believe that standalone camera makers should base their cameras from smartphones as the hardware is widely available and cheap, aside from being feature packed and up to date specs.
  • kodakMan - Saturday, December 10, 2016 - link

    yeah that's right.
    comparing the kodak ektra's camera to Sony's Low-End Cybershots, should determine if its worth buying or not.
  • nikon133 - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link

    Retro look is nice... but I'm not associating Kodak brand with premium lens. Zeiss or Leica would make more impact.
  • Annabella24 - Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - link

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  • zooter - Saturday, December 10, 2016 - link

    21 mega pixel camera, quite impressive though
    http://www.tech365today.com/2016/10/20/kodak-ektra...

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