Originally Posted by
Rmedy21 I've learned not to always go with what other people write down. The GS5 is a great phone I had the HTC one M8 for less that two weeks and I returned it. You have to check things out for yourself.
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I totally agree with this.
You will see a lot of posts where the author "belongs to the other camp" and is purposely down trodding xyz phone because it is NOT perfect.
Nothing is perfect, just a matter of degree.
ie, my first smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S and I have owned it for 3 years having gotten it shortly after its' launch day.
Back then, if it was not Apple iOS it was a piece of dung, and that statement was thrown all over all of the Android forums by Apple aficionados right and left. A lot of that is still going on, and you have to read a post 3 times and analyze what you are "hearing".
If I see something that smells of dung, then it came from the pig pen and I discount it.
If it sounds like a valid technical response, then I study that and try to figure out what is going on.
I waded through a huge amount of dung learning that Galaxy S phone and what it could do, and what it could not do. The camera in that phone is "just as good" as the one in my Current S5. It just has fewer pixels, but it performs equally as well within the limits of the technology it was created with.
This camera, or "that camera" is not necessarily better or worse. Each has its' own specs and each will have its' own response times. Both are by design because of money restraints and technology limits at the time they were created AND the market for which they are being aimed at.
That does not make one camera better than the other, because "better" is a matter of personal preference and type of use needed.
You need to read all you can, and then you need to decide what will make you the happiest. I have never used anything except the two smartphones I have mentioned here. So, I cannot claim that an HTC is a piece of dung and the statement mean anything at all. I have friends with HTC and Motorola phones and they all have been happy with them. Enough so, I was really torn to leave the Samsung camp and go with one of those.
I settled on the S5 because "I was already familiar with Samsung". maybe I should have spent a lot of hours in a Best Buy store trying out the "other guys".... but it is 50 miles to the closest smartphone store and I just didn't want to take the time.
I don't care about resolution.. I care about overall image quality, sharpness, color quality, focus speed and that pictures look "real" (on my HOX they don't... sometimes people heads looks big, dog ears looks too long etc.). That's the reason I won't go with HTC this time.
.06-24-2014 08:16 AM
Make sure to check it out in store or ask friend to try it out. Some people say the UI lags and others say that it's fine. It probably comes down to user preference and you should know the product well before making a purchase.I don't care about resolution.. I care about overall image quality, sharpness, color quality, focus speed and that pictures look "real" (on my HOX they don't... sometimes people heads looks big, dog ears looks too long etc.). That's the reason I won't go with HTC this time.
