Google Camera takes page from iPhone playbook, preps wide-gamut imaging — maybe to debut on Pixel 4

The camera in Google’s Pixels has always taken some of the best photos in the world of smartphones, but they might be getting some expanded color chops soon — if not in existing hardware, then maybe in the Pixel 4. Google may be gearing up to add P3 wide color gamut support to the Pixel’s first-party Google Camera app. According to some code dug up and enabled by developer cstark27 and subsequently tested by XDA Developers, Google has already integrated at least some of the required changes, and they were able to turn it on for testing.

Left: The P3 color setting XDA Senior member cstart27 was able to enable. Right: Exif data showing P3 profile on a captured image. (Both images via XDA Developers)

An album with a pair of full-resolution quick comparison images assembled by XDA’s Dylan Raga is here, though note you’ll need both a display with wide-color support and the files will need to be viewed via software that supports it as well. A video made by XDA which seems to approximate the effect within a narrower sRGB color space (for the purposes of demonstrating the type of difference you can expect) is also embedded just below.

The difference is most noticeable in the…