and with all those pixels in the camera -who someday will need an SLR camera?
Megapixels do not matter!
Camera makers keep touting megapixels as if it is the most important specification. It is not. I actually prefer my camera to have fewer megapixel thingies. There are numerous advantages that come with fewer megapixels - the main one being, each pixel is larger and so can gather more light. More light = cleaner images and better sensitivity in low light. Files are smaller, so you won't have to upgrade your storage so quickly. Also, for those who forget to resize their images before emailing - you won't be sending 4-5 megabyte emails and clogging up your phone's bandwidth and eating up data charges.
Where megapixels do matter is when you are blowing things up for print, but I doubt if any smartphone user will be doing that. Also, a higher res image gives you more leeway for cropping ... however, why bother cropping when all you are doing is magnifying a dirty image?
Any photographer will tell you that lens are far more important than MP. That is why DSLRs will always give a you better quality image.
Yes there are some obvious parallels here between DACs and cameras. People tend to buy on number of bits, and megapixels respectively. Bits and megapixels are cheap to add and easier to tout.
I wonder, how many S3 users would say that what they want in their S4 is a faster processor ?
IMO this is not what makes phone great. Samsung seems to compensate with the dazzling processor numbers for the lack of real innovation in their phones and poorer user experience compared to iPhones (which seems to be their primary competing product / target).
IMO this is not what makes phone great. Samsung seems to compensate with the dazzling processor numbers for the lack of real innovation in their phones and poorer user experience compared to iPhones (which seems to be their primary competing product / target).
Lack of innovation in Samsung phones? Now, if you made this claim against a dozen other Android manufacturers, e.g. LG, Sony, HTC, Motorola, ZTE, Huawei, etc.
HTC One wins best new handset in Barcelona this year. So will the new Galaxy cut this phone's reign short?
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