Moto X: The camera on this phone is an absolute joke

[Cozume]

I don't see any camera update in the Play Store. Is there another way to update it?

no, that is how it is updated. It is the Motorola Camera app. If you are up to date, then you are up to date.

 

[el3ctronics]

no, that is how it is updated. It is the Motorola Camera app. If you are up to date, then you are up to date.

The camera app that comes with 4.4.2 is actually newer than the one in the Play Store.

 

[Peacen1k]

Well, that sucks.

 

[el3ctronics]

So upon further review I may have been wrong. When I got home tonight I did some more testing with the 4.4.2 update and the low light camera performance seems to be VASTLY improved. I'm still playing around but early tests have been very encouraging. Motorola had already provided me with a return label but I'm going to give it a few more days before I make a decision!

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[Aquila]

So upon further review I may have been wrong. When I got home tonight I did some more testing with the 4.4.2 update and the low light camera performance seems to be VASTLY improved. I'm still playing around but early tests have been very encouraging. Motorola had already provided me with a return label but I'm going to give it a few more days before I make a decision!

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Very interested in your review of the differences pre-post update. I'm still on 4.4 so haven't gotten a chance to use the newest version yet, but I am on the 1st KK version.

 

[Cozume]

So upon further review I may have been wrong. When I got home tonight I did some more testing with the 4.4.2 update and the low light camera performance seems to be VASTLY improved. I'm still playing around but early tests have been very encouraging. Motorola had already provided me with a return label but I'm going to give it a few more days before I make a decision!

yay!!!!!!! Can't wait for the update!!!!

 

[someguy01234]

yay!!!!!!! Can't wait for the update!!!!

Don't you have the unlocked version?

 

[Cozume]

Don't you have the unlocked version?

Verizon Dev Ed. Unlocked bootloader.

The Verizon Moto X's are GSM SIM unlocked, too, but our updates have to come through Verizon because of the CDMA radios.

I also have a Verizon wood backed Moto X.

 

[kolyan2k]

You can check my sample photos from N5 vs Moto X here (both on 4.4.2 and HDR is ON) From my testing Moto X images are always blurry compared to sharp picture that N5 takes.

Moto X vs N5 photos anyone? - Page 3 - xda-developers

 

[Cozume]

From my testing Moto X images are always blurry compared to sharp picture that N5 takes.

What do you think causes this? Bad focusing software?

Which is the more true to life red? The N5?

What about pictures of motion? The poster on XDA above your posts seemed to think the N5 had problems with that due to the shutter speed?

 

[someguy01234]

What do you think causes this? Bad focusing software?

N5 camera have image stabilization which really help. On the Moto X I have to keep the phone more still while shooting than some other phones. I could be wrong since the Moto X camera do have fast shutter speed, but I'm not impressed with some of the distance details.

 

[kolyan2k]

What do you think causes this? Bad focusing software?

Which is the more true to life red? The N5?

What about pictures of motion? The poster on XDA above your posts seemed to think the N5 had problems with that due to the shutter speed?

Have no idea why its not sharp. I doubt they will make it better....maybe a better app, but not a better camera. (camera app and camera firmware are different things by the way thats why you need OTA for some camera fixes etc.)

I think N5 has better and more accurate colors in general and sharper picture

 

[raiderep]

This may sound simple but my only complaint is that the lens gets dirty with smudges too easily and makes pictures come out blurry. I have had this happen, wiped the lens clean and then taken the same shot again and it came out fine. Now I clean it before shots and am fine with the results most of the time. Not the best camera phone available but the overall experience is the best I've had in a smartphone yet and I've had about a dozen since 2009.

Go android!!

 

[Haalcyon]

This may sound simple but my only complaint is that the lens gets dirty with smudges too easily and makes pictures come out blurry. I have had this happen, wiped the lens clean and then taken the same shot again and it came out fine. Now I clean it before shots and am fine with the results most of the time.

I always clean the lens on my phone before taking a photo. Seems like, well, like common sense but not necessarily. A dirty lens dramatically impacts image quality...IME.


Sent from my liberated plutonium 5s 64

 

[kolyan2k]

Yeah i cleaned lens on both....

Its a first time I have 2 phone at the same time and I can pick either one for myself, and I admit its not easy......they both feel about the same quality to me, and they both fit fine in my hand, they both run same stock Android. N5 has better camera and dev support, Moto X has better speaker and some useful Motorola apps, but ZERO dev support......

 

[Pollster]

Moto X has better speaker and some useful Motorola apps, but ZERO dev support......

My guess at the time was that it was not intended. Nexus would be Google's vanilla phone for those that tweaking/rooting/romming was the be-all-end-all. Moto X would be the vanilla phone for consumers who don't want to think about all that.

 

[Haalcyon]

My guess at the time was that it was not intended. Nexus would be Google's vanilla phone for those that tweaking/rooting/romming was the be-all-end-all. Moto X would be the vanilla phone for consumers who don't want to think about all that.

The Moto X was intended, I believe, to be android's iPhone. ...but the iPhone has a nice camera and certainly good radios.


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[Cozume]

N5 has better camera and dev support, Moto X has better speaker and some useful Motorola apps, but ZERO dev support......

The useful apps are very useful to me since I actually use my device as a phone. I am on Verizon so I didn't get the option of the N5. If I had, I would have been torn.

 

[Cozume]

The Moto X was intended, I believe, to be android's iPhone.

Well it was intended to buck the trend of gigantic Androids, which for some iPhone users is a deal breaker. And it was intended to buck the trend of the spec wars on Androids. But I don't think anyone thinks with a subpar camera they ever had a chance to attract many iPhone users.

 

[Cozume]

but the iPhone has a nice camera and certainly good radios.

well the radios aren't as good as the Moto X. I have tested the iPhone 5s side by side with the Moto X and the Moto X beats the iPhone in data speedtests and in holding onto a 4G LTE signal.