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I'm confused about people carping about brightness. I found the OLED on my Galaxy SII was great and needed much less brightness than an LED. The thing that's g

I'm confused about people carping about brightness. I found the OLED on my Galaxy SII was great and needed much less brightness than an LED. The thing that's got me irritated is the sub-par camera _again_. I'm really frustrated with the camera on my N5, and I'm now worried that the only place I can go is an iphone 6+. Do not want. :(

alexhawdon 12y ago
Couldn't agree more wrt the poor camera. My (limited -- from helping friends with their devices which were just doing plain weird/awkward things) experience with early Android devices was that the platform took awhile to catch up. I jumped ship with the Nexus 4 and I couldn't be happier with it. With this one exception. The photos my friends take with their iPhones are fantastic and I'm tired of feeling jealous about it.
- mercer 12y ago
  I had a Nexus 4 and was quite happy with it, but the (relatively) terrible camera was what made me switch back to an iPhone.
dingaling 12y ago
> I'm now worried that the only place I can go is an iphone 6+ LG G3 or Xperia Z3. Probably the best photographic phones on the market by a long margin ( assuming you are outside China and can't lay your hands on a Vivo Xshot ). Edit: the Note 4 camera is said to be pretty decent but not quite in the same class, though the screen has excellent accuracy. I have no experience with Nokia-Microsoft phones.
- mercer 12y ago
  Would you say the LG G3 and Xperia Z3 have better camera's than the iPhone? Or do you mean in comparison to other Android devices?
  - eitally 12y ago
    I haven't tried a G3, but I do think the Xperia Z3 does (and the Z2 perhaps, too). At snapshot size, Xperia pics are indistinguishable from photos taken with a traditional point & shoot -- as long as lighting conditions are reasonable.
  - dingaling 12y ago
    > Would you say the LG G3 and Xperia Z3 have better camera's than the iPhone? Technically, better ( honest-to-the-scene ) cameras and lenses. But Apple does a lot of magic in software to make their images 'pop'. I think it's probably comparable to, say, Sigma[0] versus Zeiss SLR lenses. Sigma make some astonishingly good wide-angle SLR lenses but Zeiss give a certain appealing 'look' even if they're actually less competent in some measurements. [0] yes, they of the mega-zoom infamy. But their new Art series of lenses is amazing.
dman 12y ago
Camera on the HTC one is really good.
e40 12y ago
I just got the older generation Moto X (developer edition) because my Nexus 5 died (and the Play store is out of them). I really like it. It's a solid build. Not that much crapware, but since I'm rooted I disabled it all anyway. Highlights: the screen and external speaker. The newest Moto X is a larger than the one I have. I think it's in between the Nexus 5 and 6, in size. The only issue I have with the new Moto X: can't unlock the bootloader.
- bpeebles 12y ago
  I've seen lots of people mentioning they've unlocked the boot loader on their Moto X 2014 Pure Editions (I think the carrier ones don't have unlockable bootloaders), including in this video[0], showing how to side load Lollipop (which doesn't need an unlocked bootloader, but his screen say it's unlocked). [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZbQ52AAOubg#t=133 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Zb...
acconrad 12y ago
I made that mistake with the N4, I'm going to stubbornly hold onto it until Google gets in gear and makes a phone with a camera worth purchasing.

alexhawdon 12y ago

Couldn't agree more wrt the poor camera. My (limited -- from helping friends with their devices which were just doing plain weird/awkward things) experience with early Android devices was that the platform took awhile to catch up. I jumped ship with the Nexus 4 and I couldn't be happier with it. With this one exception. The photos my friends take with their iPhones are fantastic and I'm tired of feeling jealous about it.

mercer 12y ago
I had a Nexus 4 and was quite happy with it, but the (relatively) terrible camera was what made me switch back to an iPhone.

dingaling 12y ago

> I'm now worried that the only place I can go is an iphone 6+ LG G3 or Xperia Z3. Probably the best photographic phones on the market by a long margin ( assuming you are outside China and can't lay your hands on a Vivo Xshot ). Edit: the Note 4 camera is said to be pretty decent but not quite in the same class, though the screen has excellent accuracy. I have no experience with Nokia-Microsoft phones.

mercer 12y ago
Would you say the LG G3 and Xperia Z3 have better camera's than the iPhone? Or do you mean in comparison to other Android devices?
- eitally 12y ago
  I haven't tried a G3, but I do think the Xperia Z3 does (and the Z2 perhaps, too). At snapshot size, Xperia pics are indistinguishable from photos taken with a traditional point & shoot -- as long as lighting conditions are reasonable.
- dingaling 12y ago
  > Would you say the LG G3 and Xperia Z3 have better camera's than the iPhone? Technically, better ( honest-to-the-scene ) cameras and lenses. But Apple does a lot of magic in software to make their images 'pop'. I think it's probably comparable to, say, Sigma[0] versus Zeiss SLR lenses. Sigma make some astonishingly good wide-angle SLR lenses but Zeiss give a certain appealing 'look' even if they're actually less competent in some measurements. [0] yes, they of the mega-zoom infamy. But their new Art series of lenses is amazing.

dman 12y ago

Camera on the HTC one is really good.

e40 12y ago

I just got the older generation Moto X (developer edition) because my Nexus 5 died (and the Play store is out of them). I really like it. It's a solid build. Not that much crapware, but since I'm rooted I disabled it all anyway. Highlights: the screen and external speaker. The newest Moto X is a larger than the one I have. I think it's in between the Nexus 5 and 6, in size. The only issue I have with the new Moto X: can't unlock the bootloader.

bpeebles 12y ago
I've seen lots of people mentioning they've unlocked the boot loader on their Moto X 2014 Pure Editions (I think the carrier ones don't have unlockable bootloaders), including in this video[0], showing how to side load Lollipop (which doesn't need an unlocked bootloader, but his screen say it's unlocked). [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZbQ52AAOubg#t=133 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Zb...

acconrad 12y ago

I made that mistake with the N4, I'm going to stubbornly hold onto it until Google gets in gear and makes a phone with a camera worth purchasing.