Why smartphone cameras were the most important tech of 2017

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Your smartphone camera is about to reshape everything, but it has nothing to do with snapping photos. 

Sure, phone makers are getting really, really good at creating cameras. Between hardware improvements and advancements in computational photography, we’ve never had better optics in our pockets than we do with the latest generation of flagships.

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