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Video: Fast look at the Sony Xperia S “Fast Capture” feature

By on January 13, 2012 at 12:29pm in Mobile News

The Sony Xperia S will be coming to Canada soon, carrier unconfirmed but it’s absolutely en route. The device is a natural progression from the Xperia X10, then the arc. It sports a 4.3-inch display (resolution of 1280 x 720), runs Android OS 2.3.7, but will be upgraded to OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich sometime in Q2 2012. In addition, the Xperia S has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with 12-megapixel camera that shoots 720p HD videos. We had a quick hands on of the Xperia S (video here), but one of the cool features that it comes with is “Fast Capture”. Basically this allows you to snap a pic from the standby mode within 1.5 seconds. No more turning the phone on, finding the camera icon, launching the app, then taking the pic. You simply have to hold down the dedicated camera button and quickly take the picture, then share. The video above goes head-to-head with a Galaxy Nexus and the homescreen camera feature found in Android OS 4.0. It’s a great addition to the device and certainly saves you a couple seconds… which is important when you want to capture the moment.

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17 comments for “Video: Fast look at the Sony Xperia S “Fast Capture” feature”

  1. 1080P HD videos…the screen is 720P.

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    Posted by Ramy | January 13, 2012, 12:35 pm
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    • what it can shoot and what it can display are two different things are they not?

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      Posted by Kennedyk24 | January 13, 2012, 12:46 pm

    • Ofcourse they’re different, the article says it “shoots 720p HD videos” It shoots 1080P videos :)

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      Posted by Ramy | January 13, 2012, 1:19 pm

  2. nice feature!

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    Posted by craig | January 13, 2012, 12:38 pm
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  3. And btw, it totally owned the Nexus ^_^

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    Posted by Ramy | January 13, 2012, 12:39 pm
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  4. As much as i love my Galaxy Nexus i gotta say Sony is finally stepping it up with the two new Xperia phones they showed at CES. I used to own a X10 and i was happy with it and i would go back to Sony in a heartbeat. If it wasnt for getting updates first on Nexus i would have another Sony phone.

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    Posted by Abe | January 13, 2012, 1:07 pm
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  5. It’s a sony phone so it will go to rogers, they have a partnership with sony.

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    Posted by RJay29 | January 13, 2012, 1:23 pm
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    • not necessary it would go to rogers. lots of good sony phone were purchased by the competiors such as telus. i hope rogers would get this phone in near future.

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      Posted by JAMES | January 13, 2012, 4:56 pm

  6. that’s impressive!

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    Posted by ramir | January 13, 2012, 1:39 pm
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  7. I think the fast capture thing is a gimmick. Unless you are ready for an “unexpected moment” with the camera already in your hands, you are going to spend a lot more than 1.5 seconds taking the phone put of your purse or pocket. Short shutter lag and fast focusing are far more important.

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    Posted by Dan | January 13, 2012, 1:51 pm
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  8. Iphone 4s is a much better device to use to take beautiful pictures. You can take multiple picture really really quick, which makes it much more superior to the Xperia Suck.

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    Posted by Apple4Life | January 13, 2012, 2:01 pm
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  9. The only thing I don’t like about the fast capture is you can’t see on the screen what you’re about to capture until after youve taken the first picture. I feel like this will lead to a lot of bad first shots, but good second shots.

    Also, Im assuming this will be disabled if there’s any sort of security lock active on the phone, otherwise it would probably be a privacy issue (ppl can take/send photos from your phone).

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    Posted by Khalas | January 13, 2012, 2:03 pm
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    • @Khalas

      There’s an option to not take a photo after pressing the camera button, so it just launches into the camera app and then u can press the button again to take a photo.

      And If you have security lock you can still launch into the camera and take pics, when you want to view the picture/send the picture you would then have to input the lock password.

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      Posted by Kai | January 13, 2012, 2:51 pm

  10. Heading – “Video: Fast look at the Sony Xperia S “Fast Capture” feature”

    Was it meant to read “Video: First look at the Sony Xperia S “Fast Capture” feature”?

    You probably thought ahead of yourself and wrote fast instead of first.

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    Posted by didyoumean? | January 13, 2012, 2:05 pm
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  11. it should be 1280×720

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    Posted by non | January 13, 2012, 3:21 pm
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  12. Windows Phone has had this feature for quite some time now….

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    Posted by Jesse | January 13, 2012, 5:01 pm
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