If you expose the picture wrong, you can get all of those errors. Cameras aren't just point and shoot - you have to know quite a bit about photography (and have a camera app on which you can lock the settings) to set your camera up to take decent pictures by just snapping away.
Washed-out sky? Overexposed. Blurry? Either the photographer moved (everything is blurry) or the shutter speed is too slow (one object is blurry - it was moving during the exposure). No details? An exposure problem again.
If a $3 Kodak box camera can take good pictures (and I've seen some great shots taken with one), a camera with an adjustable lens and shutter can take even better ones. If the person taking the pictures knows how to take pictures. (An automatic camera generally takes automatically mediocre pictures. To take good pictures takes a person who knows something about photography. To take great pictures takes someone like Ansel Adams [who once demonstrated how to take great pictures with a plastic Kodak Brownie - the camera you used to give kids as their first camera.) Look at Dorothea Lange's pictures of the Depression era and you'll see that it's what's between the photographer's ears, not what's between her hands, that makes the pictures great.
Thanks for the lecture, but I know there is an 'art' to taking a Good photo.
Reviews on phones are normally always just using the auto mode. The iPhone 6+ and Note 4 seem to do very well in this mode.
These are on on auto mode and taken with Note 4 or iPhone 6+
Note 4 indoors at night. Store lighting.
Note 4 outside a starbucks, daylight outside.
indoors, daylight hours. iPhone 6+
iPhone 6+ indoors.
All of those are 100% untouched and on auto setting.
I just want to know if the Sony can look as good as those on auto.
If I were a photographer, I too could make any camera look great with a great deal of work involved in each shot, but my cat isn't going to lay on the step while I set up a Tripod, external flash, and make sure I am getting the correct exposure, lighting and angle.