In 2019, smartphone manufacturers have made significant strides towards improving the cameras used in their products. Most of the work was focused on improving the quality of images in low light, and not much attention was paid to the video recording process. That could change next year as smartphone makers start using newer, more powerful chips.
While internal storage capacity of smartphones is growing, more modern modems are being used, and fifth generation (5G) networks have begun to be commercialized, an old limitation prevents Android device users from recording videos larger than 4 GB. This situation may change in Android 11, which will be officially presented next year.
This limitation was introduced back in 2014, when the maximum memory capacity of smartphones on the market reached 32 GB, and users had to actively use SD cards. At that time, the restriction was justified, since there was not much memory on the devices, and the ability to record video in 4K format was just emerging. Now, a lot has changed, smartphones with 1 TB of internal memory have appeared, 4K video recording has become the norm, not the exception. When recording video in 4K at 30 frames per second, a 4 GB video will be generated in about 12 minutes, after which the smartphone will automatically create a new file, which is not very convenient, since the user will have to use a third-party application to merge the fragments into one.
Software developers have been asking for this limitation for a long time, and it seems that this will finally happen in Android 11. References to this were found in the source code of the software platform. If Google sticks to the schedule for launching new versions of its own OS, then the first beta versions of Android 11 should be expected in the spring of 2020.
Source: 3dnews.ru