OBLAMA2009 said:imma pradick right now dat detectin' all da hand and eye moshuns on gs4 gonna cill batarie life
iPhone vs P&S for anyone interested:
http://www.takebetterphotos.com.au/iphone5-camera-review.html
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http://youtu.be/NIOQxZih9zE?t=50sTouchwizz will likely perform better than stock android as it usually does.
iPhone vs P&S for anyone interested:
http://www.takebetterphotos.com.au/iphone5-camera-review.html
http://youtu.be/NIOQxZih9zE?t=50s
Look how laggy the transitions are. The whole ui in that particular video is no way as quick as stock.
As for optics on the phones.
Anand have the best writer on earth here, Brian. From:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6777/understanding-camera-optics-smartphone-camera-trends/3
"The current generation of modern pixels is around 1.1 microns square, basically any 13 MP smartphone is shipping 1.1 microns, like the Optimus G, and interestingly enough others are using 1.1 microns at 8 MP to drive thinner modules, like the thinner Optimus G option or Nexus 4. The previous generation of 8 MP sensors were using 1.4 micron pixels, and before that at 5 MP we were talking 1.65 or 1.75 micron pixels. Those are pretty tiny pixels, and if you stop and think about a wave of very red light at around 700nm, were talking about 1.5 waves with 1.1 micron pixels, around 2 waves at 1.4 microns, and so forth. Theres really not much smaller you can go, it doesnt make sense to go smaller than one wave."
What i can read from this is, we are nearly at the end of the road for the mpix madness. After the next generation giving us perhaps 20 mpix, they can only improve quality. Marketing will hate it , but there is hope in 2 years !
Nah, now you can report pixel size or sensor size. Nobody will understand what they're talking about (just like now), but bigger is better!
Well, but speed/firmware notwithstanding, in my opinion Android needs to give more controls of widgets to users. Especially the system's widgets drawer.
Edit: The reason being that a few developers can't seem to contain themselves. Most developers are sensible and considerate not to go overboard with widgets and some are even better, giving users complete control of widgets (numbers, sizes, etc,.). Unfortunately, there are idiotic developers who develop an app and are so proud that they have to sprinkle bazillion widgets of different sizes for every petty function of an app. Users currently have no choice but to deal with those, afaik. (correct me if I'm mistaken)
Definitely agree. Can you uninstall native Samsung apps from Galaxy products?
His test show the IP5 (could be ip4/s3), to be as good as an 2-3 years old 100usd p&s.
My experience says its a stretch in some fairly common real world scenarios:
1. If you take pictures indoors and use the blitz, the led light on the phone makes the pictures far worse than the real stuff on the p&s - or lumia 808 as an exception.
2. If you take pictures outside in bright sunshine the bsi sensor of the ip5 or s3, will give you those way over exposed areas. You can correct a lot of the problem with the HDR, but the pictures still suffer, and HDR gives the pictures som artificial look.
Thats not to say the phones are bad. They make people take pictures, far better and more dynamic situations than before. Add the really good video, and that you have access to it when you bring your phone - and the sharing - is just a huge advantage.
But if you have an decent P&S dont leave it at home on you next vacation thinking the phone is good enough.
His test show the IP5 (could be ip4/s3), to be as good as an 2-3 years old 100usd p&s.
My experience says its a stretch in some fairly common real world scenarios:
1. If you take pictures indoors and use the blitz, the led light on the phone makes the pictures far worse than the real stuff on the p&s - or lumia 808 as an exception.
2. If you take pictures outside in bright sunshine the bsi sensor of the ip5 or s3, will give you those way over exposed areas. You can correct a lot of the problem with the HDR, but the pictures still suffer, and HDR gives the pictures som artificial look.
Thats not to say the phones are bad. They make people take pictures, far better and more dynamic situations than before. Add the really good video, and that you have access to it when you bring your phone - and the sharing - is just a huge advantage.
But if you have an decent P&S dont leave it at home on you next vacation thinking the phone is good enough.
I don't see situations where I am gonna use those other sensors.
I don't really care about humidity or temp (if my wife died no one would touch the thermostat in my house ever again). I won't use the IR as I have an XBMC remote app on my phone. I won't use any of it.
Or maybe that is what I am preemptively telling myself because I know that stuff will never work in CM ROMs.
... Bottom line really is that it doesn't matter if its an iPhone, an S3 or a Lumia 920, LED flashes on devices suck.
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hmmSGS4 is being advertised as having LTE in the UK and I'm assuming we have the international version.
Reading programs at dark concert halls or menus in dark restaurants.Thats the truth, about the only thing LED flashes are good for is to use as an emergency torch if you drop your car keys or as a light when recording video if the subject is within a very narrow range of distance away.
Samsung's lack of attention to usability and good design is a pathetic joke. STILL keeping the Gingerbread-era capacitive Menu key? It presents an awful experience. I have heard some people say they prefer it, but several are misinformed thinking that without that key they can't access those extra features at all, which of course isn't true. The only other argument I've heard for keeping it is that it's easier to reach at the bottom than at the top in the action bar. The problems are numerous though. Several apps have screens without an "overflow" menu at all, so that key does nothing. But in other screens it will do something. Try explaining that to a new user. If you're not touching the screen, it's not even lit! So you search the screen looking for the option you want, forgetting that you actually have to hit that dark area in the lower-left of the phone to see it. Not to mention stuffing Google Now and app switching behind the home button. It's just horrible and sad that this is the experience so many new users will get.
The abundance of S-features also represents this problem. Including S-Voice AND Google Now is bad design - Samsung is prioritizing shoving their own features down people's throats at the cost of simplicity and the user experience. A new user in a store might wonder why these two seemingly-overlapping features are both present. All the sales rep would be able to say is "One is Samsung's version, one is Google's." Imagine such an atrocity of user experience on an Apple device. Who would want to waste battery keeping the front camera on all the time just so you don't have to pause videos or scroll manually?
I'm an Android user, I have two Nexus devices, both built by Samsung, so I appreciate what they've done and it's nice to see an Android vendor achieve such mainstream success, I just wish it wasn't someone that shit all over the Android experience so badly.
Don't like it buy, keep buying Nexus devices. It's not like you have to have it their way, you can buy other phones where you like the experience so they're not shoving it down your throat as the only option.