I've noticed, just playing around with my S4, that landscape photos and macro shots are mind-blowingly good.
These are all on auto mode without any tweaking of anything.
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I've noticed, just playing around with my S4, that landscape photos and macro shots are mind-blowingly good.
These are all on auto mode without any tweaking of anything.
So far low light shots i've taken have all been blurry or soft. Not the greatest quality. I've tried turning on the modes to improve it but so far no real luck. The flash is good though.
Low light is pretty average, but if you're shooting something that's close enough to get a flash in there, it's amazing - the flash is top shelf.
I recall seeing a 'night mode' that is supposed to help enhance low-light shots though...
At the end of the day, I think the S4's low-light photography is not as good as the HTC One or the Lumia 920. But actually that's not important to me, just curious about the quality.
Yep i've used it with the night mode but photos were out of focus / soft or blurry for me.
This thread is making my decision to dump the iPhone 5 for an S4, very hard. Features-wise, S4 is a no brainer. And the thought of jumping into Android for the first time ever and tinkering, has me very excited.
BUT, I'm 110% bought into the Apple ecosystem. Wife, mother and I all own iPhones and share an iCloud account, where every pic each of us takes (99% of which are of our little daughter), show up on each other's Photo Stream. My Calendar syncs with the wife's, a must for us. Notifications as well. Apple TVs, Macbook Pro and iPad. All would be "disconnected" if I pull the trigger and dump the iPhone 5.
Can someone please talk some sense into me?!?
BUT, I'm 110% bought into the Apple ecosystem. Wife, mother and I all own iPhones and share an iCloud account, where every pic each of us takes (99% of which are of our little daughter), show up on each other's Photo Stream. My Calendar syncs with the wife's, a must for us. Notifications as well. Apple TVs, Macbook Pro and iPad. All would be "disconnected" if I pull the trigger and dump the iPhone 5.
Can someone please talk some sense into me?!?
You'll no longer have iPod on your phone if you make the switch. That that's basically why I still have iPhone.
This thread is making my decision to dump the iPhone 5 for an S4, very hard. Features-wise, S4 is a no brainer. And the thought of jumping into Android for the first time ever and tinkering, has me very excited.
BUT, I'm 110% bought into the Apple ecosystem. Wife, mother and I all own iPhones and share an iCloud account, where every pic each of us takes (99% of which are of our little daughter), show up on each other's Photo Stream. My Calendar syncs with the wife's, a must for us. Notifications as well. Apple TVs, Macbook Pro and iPad. All would be "disconnected" if I pull the trigger and dump the iPhone 5.
Can someone please talk some sense into me?!?
Well as long as you keep an ipad, you will still have all of those features...just not on the go with your phone. Have you ran into any problems with you all sharing the same icloud account? like getting imessages from someone else?
No problems whatsoever.
The real problem lies with the possibility of my Calendar (which is always updated via my iPhone) no longer syncing with my wife's and vice-versa. Same with PhotoStream. When you have a little one and are taking tons of pics, it's nice for those pics to automatically appear on everyone else's phone with no extra steps.
Perhaps I'll wait for the iPhone 5S/iPhone 6/iOS 7 announcement. If there's not a 5" screen on it this year, I'm out.
Just wanted to bring this back in case someone knew the answer.
Also, is there visual (random access) voicemail if I switch to the S4?
I did it.... Instead of Photo stream I use DropBox. DropBox can sync to the cloud every photo and video I take on my S4. I then have dropbox loaded on my iMac and my rMBP so I have instant access to all photos and videos i take with mt S4. I can also share anything I want on dropbox with relatives. So i can email them a link to a shared folder on dropbox and they can view all the photos and vids i want to share.This thread is making my decision to dump the iPhone 5 for an S4, very hard. Features-wise, S4 is a no brainer. And the thought of jumping into Android for the first time ever and tinkering, has me very excited.
BUT, I'm 110% bought into the Apple ecosystem. Wife, mother and I all own iPhones and share an iCloud account, where every pic each of us takes (99% of which are of our little daughter), show up on each other's Photo Stream. My Calendar syncs with the wife's, a must for us. Notifications as well. Apple TVs, Macbook Pro and iPad. All would be "disconnected" if I pull the trigger and dump the iPhone 5.
Can someone please talk some sense into me?!?
I use Google calendar to sync my calendar/contacts across all my Macs at home.
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you can sync all of your music and playlists from iTunes with iSyncr then use an great music player like Rocket Player to play all your music.....
I would not jeopardise that for one moment.
I moved from an iPhone to Android and found the move surprisingly easy, unlike you though, the rest of my family do not have iPhones, my kids have long grown up, but, in your position I would want to see a photo of my little one as soon as my wife etc had excitedly sent it, the apple ecosystem is superb in that matter.
I kniw the HTC One supports it, not sure about the S4.
As for visual voicemail, neither has it built into the phone app like the iPhone. You have to download a seperate app to get it. Youmail is pretty good, as is the AT&T branded app (not sure which carrier your on), but right now I'm using Google voice and like that the best so far.
so you have one? What do you base that info on? Please explain in more detail.....
I got my hands on one and it has the classic Samsung lag especially when waking the device. Check around the Internet you will hear the same thing. I really wish Samsung could fix the lag it's a really nice phone.
I have one....I have no lag whatsoever. So do you have a Galaxy S4? Not sure about your experience....but some live wallappers can cause a tiny little lag in ALL smartphones....