However, the Nokia's mix of heavy noise reduction and sharpening looks worse than the rest up close.
This is very visible on all the trees and foliage in the scene. However, with its 13MP sensor the Samsung, at least in good light, simply captures more detail.Īll the cameras here struggle with low-contrast detail, even at low ISOs and in good light. The HTC One looks the sharpest at a pixel-level but this is due to a combination of the low pixel count and pretty strong sharpening. Looking at the 100% crops, the difference in pixel count between the cameras becomes very obvious. Here is an overview of our competitors in this shootout and their key photographic specifications: Apple's iPhone 5 and the Nokia Lumia 920 have been on the market for a while and successors are no doubt in the pipeline, but for now these devices are more than valid options for iOS and Windows Phone users, respectively.Īrguably the most interesting new Android devices, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One are finally available for purchase - and crucially at last in our office - so we put them head-to-head with the established competition from Apple and Nokia. However, Google's Android OS is of course not your only option if you are currently in the market for a smartphone with good imaging capabilities. While Samsung is betting on a 13MP horse, HTC, the second largest manufacturer of Android devices, is going the opposite way, equipping its HTC One top-end phone with an unusually low resolution 4MP sensor with large photosites (which HTC calls "ultrapixels") and optical image stabilization (OIS) which, in theory, should result in improved low light capabilities. In March Samsung followed with their new flagship device, the Galaxy S4.
This includes the Sony Xperia Z, the ZTE Grand S, Huawei Ascend D2 and Lenovo K900. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a number of devices, all of them running the Android operating system and boasting 13MP camera modules, were announced.
2013 is still young but has been an interesting year so far in terms of mobile image capture.
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