The new mode is expected to debut with the Galaxy S10
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| © Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The feature was first discovered within Android Pie code for the recently released Note 9. |
By Jon Porter, The Verge
Code discovered in the latest Android Pie build for Samsung’s Galaxy
Note 9 suggests the company is working on a new night photography mode
called Bright Night, reports XDA-Developers.
The code says that it will allow you to “take bright pictures even in
very dark conditions,” which is similar to the functionality we’ve seen
from Google’s Night Sight mode and Huawei’s Night Mode.
Given how Samsung likes to debut new photography features with each flagship handset, XDA
speculates that the company might be about to do the same with Bright
Night and the upcoming Galaxy S10, which is expected to be announced at
the end of February 2019. Samsung released new scene optimizer
technology with the Note 9 in August, following the addition of super slow-mo to the S9.
After their initial releases, both technologies were later brought to
older handsets, which explains how this code has cropped up in a Note 9
build when it’s expected to be announced alongside the S10.
Text
in the code suggests the mode will work in a similar way to Night Sight,
taking multiple shots and using software to combine them together. The
method has already produced excellent results for the Pixel 3.
When we compared the S9 with the Pixel 2 XL earlier this year,
the S9’s wider aperture appeared to give it the edge in terms of
low-light detail, but the Pixel 2’s software processing delivered more
contrast and dynamic range. Depending on how well it’s implemented,
Bright Night could help Samsung close this software quality gap with the
competition.
The Galaxy S10 is already shaping up to be a much
more fundamental revision for Samsung after the iterative changes we saw
with the S9. Various reports about the phone have claimed that it will
feature an in-display fingerprint sensor, up to six cameras, and a hole-punch Infinity O display, and now it seems its camera is also in line for an upgrade.
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