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To: Swordmaker

No photographer considers any phone camera to be of high quality. They are all a joke. That said, I have a Droid Turbo, 20MP. Beats the iPhone’s camera hands down in quality.


15 posted on 01/14/2015 2:30:30 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

I agree. Fail here for the Cupertino gay mafia. The latest Galaxy have superior cameras to the iphone 6


33 posted on 01/14/2015 4:58:12 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: CodeToad

A joke? Not any more.

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39 posted on 01/14/2015 5:30:03 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: CodeToad
That said, I have a Droid Turbo, 20MP. Beats the iPhone’s camera hands down in quality.

That's not what the reviewers are saying.

Camera

The Droid Turbo comes with a new, 21-megapixel camera that comes with a lot of promise, and support for 4K video recording, while the iPhone 6 has a fast, and consistently great 8-megapixel shooter

Motorola uses a 20.7-megapixel sensor on the Droid Turbo, with a fast, f/2.0 lens on top. The iPhone 6, on the other hand, features an 8-megapixel 1/3” sensor, with larger-than-average 1.5 micron pixels and “Focus Pixels” - Apple’s term for phase detection. On top of it is an f/2.2 lens with sapphire protective glass.

Looking at the camera app, Motorola still goes with a fairly simplistic user interface with a dial for all settings that you access by swiping from the left. The rotary action on it is not among the fastest camera interface, and it can be plain annoying for those looking to manually adjust settings in the camera. The iPhone 6, on the other hand, comes with the traditional for Apple simplistic app, but with the addition of exposure fine-tuning which is a great feature to have. Plus, the company bundles in a lot of earlier iPhoto images right in the gallery app, so you can make some pretty profound edits right from that application. . .

When it comes to image quality, we have very nice shots in almost all conditions with the Droid Turbo. Outdoor shots come rich in detail, with a nicely balanced dynamic range, and well toned colors. The iPhone 6 in comparison falls a bit short when it comes to detail, but features similarly good images outdoors. In lower light, indoor or in night shots, noise creeps in the Droid Turbo shots. Even if you scale them down to 8-megapixels, there is still plenty of noise, while the iPhone delivers clearer shots. The amount of usable detail is on par though.

We should, however, note that in one particular mode the Droid Turbo disappoints. That's panorama, where photos are captured with a low resolution of just around 2MP and are stitched poorly, plus they come with not so good colors. The outstanding iPhone 6's 43-megapixel panoramas, on the other hand, look all the more impressive when compared with the poor Droid Turbo panoramic shots. . .

In terms of video, the Droid Turbo can (sic) recording 4K at 24 frames per second (fps), or 1080p, while the iPhone 6 is not physically capable of shooting 4K, and instead captures 1080p videos at either 60 fps or 30 fps. Comparing apples to apples, or 1080p at 30fps, both the Droid Turbo and the iPhone 6 do a fairly good job, but detail on the Motorola's handset is a bit softer and while it does capture crisp audio, voices tend to sound too quiet.— Source: Motorola DROID Turbo vs Apple iPhone 6— PhoneArena.com: 03 Nov 2014

Actually, the iPhone 6 and 6Plus can take 4K video, but Apple leaves that to 3rd party Apps.

As to your vaunted screen on your Droid Turbo, PhoneArena's review says this:

Display

The 5.2“ Quad HD screen on the Droid Turbo is one of the sharpest out there, but it's ruined by inaccurate colors , while the not-so-sharp iPhone 6 has pleasing colors

The Motorola Droid Turbo comes with a 5.2-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of the impressive 1440 x 2560-pixels (Quad HD), while the Apple iPhone 6 features a slightly smaller, 4.7-inch screen of the IPS LCD kind, but with a much lower, 750 x 1334-pixel resolution. The Droid Turbo’s screen is remarkably sharp, with a pixel density of 565ppi, one of the highest we’ve seen on a smartphone, whereas the iPhone 6 features pixel density of 326ppi, decent, but definitely not on par with the one of the Turbo. In practical terms, this is a difference that is best seen during reading, when looking at text in tiny fonts, and is not all that evident in other cases.

Looking at colors, we’re not impressed with the AMOLED screen of Droid Turbo, though. It has excellent color temperature with accurate greyscale balance, but colors are way oversaturated, but inaccurate.The improper gamma also gives it an additional “contrast boost”, which is not accurate as well. The iPhone 6, on the other hand, has a slightly cold, bluish whites, but for all else it is pretty accurate.

For outdoor viewing, the Droid Turbo is rather tough to read with the sun present. The iPhone 6 is much easier to use outdoors. That's mostly thanks to its excellent maximum brightness of 600 nits, while the Droid Turbo is mediocre in this aspect, peaking at just 248 nits when measured displaying all-white screen.

Display measurements and quality

How about your processor handling all that screen space?

Processor and Memory

The Quad HD screen of the Droid Turbo puts an extra strain on the processor, and at the end of the day, the Apple A8 on the iPhone 6 outperforms the Snapdragon 805

The Droid Turbo comes with the latest and most powerful Qualcomm SoC: the quad-core Snapdragon 805, while the iPhone 6 is powered by Apple’s own A8 dual-core chip. In daily usage, both do a good job at handling the interface for daily tasks mostly smoothly and fairly lag-free.

The Snapdragon 805 comes with four Krait 450 CPU cores clocked at up to 2.7GHz, while the A8’s two Cyclone CPU cores run at up to 1.4GHz. A direct comparison of clock speeds does not give an adequate representation of the performance power of the two because of the difference in the core size and architecture, and that’s why we we turn to benchmarks to see which one has more power under the hood. The cross-platform GeekBench gives a good idea of how the iPhone 6’s single-core performance is nearly double that of the Droid Turbo, while in terms of multi-core performance, the Turbo has a very slight advantage. The Droid Turbo also features 3GB of RAM, allowing for more headroom with multitasking, while the iPhone 6 has 1 gig.

In terms of GPU and gaming, the Droid Turbo’s performance takes a toll from the higher-res Quad HD display, and on-screen performance is some 70% below that of the iPhone 6.

And THESE are for the lower end iPhone 6, not the iPhone 6plus which has a better camera, better battery, better screen with high resolution. . .

Your Droid Turbo is an OK Android phone, but it is not anyway near superior to the iPhone 6. . . and in fact, according to the reviews, it is blown out of the water by the iPhone 6.

63 posted on 01/14/2015 6:53:57 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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