And unless phonearena.com and other review sites are a bunch of total noobs with a smartphone camera, neither does removing half or two-thirds of the pixels improve image quality. This is an HTC engineering fail served up in a market baloney sandwich. If the results were unequivocally superior to last year's 8-13 MP cameras, this thread would look a whole lot different. Now we wait and see how it fares against the coming onslaught of improved 2014 cameras.
I know that picture composition and angle is the most important to capture a good shot, but picture quality has nothing to do with the photographer, but the equipment, otherwise professional SLR cameras would not exist. I change my phones all the time and no phone even comes close to the GS4 camera. All the shots come out just right. I use it as a backup to my Canon SLR and once posted online, nobody notices the difference. The only issue I have with the GS4 is the crappy plastic cladding. I wish it wore the body of the HTC One. I was hoping that this year, either HTC improved the camera or Samsung gave its new flagship an a metal body. Alas none happened, so I'll probably have to look elsewhere for my next flagship phone as neither HTC nor Samsung have a real flagship worthy of that name IMO.
Everything you've said suggests otherwise.
Anyway the only unique feature the HTC One has is the stereo speakers, otherwise it's really not that different.
HTC One does lack 4K video recording but that's not possible with a 4MP camera and it's not water or dust resistant and no removable battery.
There are also the new gimmicky features like the fingerprint scanner and heartrate monitor.
I like the design on the HTC One and if they included a reasonable camera I would have bought one because I want a new phone, but I don't want to buy a new phone that has a worse camera than the phone I'm currently using.
Try it yourself, go on and post a video.
He's obviously referring only to the cameras on the S5 and One M8, not the two lines of phones. And, yes, both cameras are gimmicky, but unlike the One, the S5 is going to take fantastic pictures. Even an S4 can do better:
the Verge on the HTC One M8 said:
That's cool, but in my line of work, from time-to-time I need to take good photos and I can't lug around a full DSLR for when I do. Sometimes I have to take pictures from a distance, so a 4MP smartphone camera won't do either because the only option I have is cropping. My S4's camera does fine, the M8's would not. And I could care less about posting pictures on social media sites.
