Great! release it about 6 months early and I'll be in line to get one.....oh and make it a 16MP camera and sold......I heard the M9 is already slated for release in Q1, 2015. Too soon?
http://www.phonedog.com/2014/06/10/htc-m9-htc-m9-prime-tipped-to-debut-in-q1-2015/
I am not sure they can.....they could eliminate the HTC logo and reduce the bezel. But the front facing speakers are a signature feature for the HTC One line. They are pretty awesome too!
They would need to improve the quality of the lens rather than increasing MP. My DSLR is a 10 megapixel and will only take as good a picture as the lens allows. The quality comes from the glass, not the sensor. On phone's the lens can be improved with limited space but marketing bods would rather push MP's because it sounds more impressive.
To be honest...i don't know anything about what it takes to make a good camera. I agree with you about just increasing the MP will not make it a great camera. But then 4MP no matter how you spin it is not enough in todays mobile phones. I wish it had the same camera as the S5.....
Unless you are printing out images to A3 or larger, you'll find a 6MP sensor is perfectly adequate for the job. On a phone though it probably wouldn't be because regardless of how many pixels they claim to have, you'll get cloned pixels to make the images sharper anyway. My 10MP DSLR will undoubtedly take a better picture than a 16MP mobile phone simply due to the quality of the lens I use, but as I said this is what boosts the spec sheet these days in the mobile market.
No one buys the M8 for the camera
The S5 is much superior in that department. However if your just using the image for social networks and not cropping in, the M8 can take some good shots.
Indeed if you reduced the res /size of an S5 picture so that they both were about the same size, then the difference is surprisingly marginal. However viewed both at 100% side by side and clearly the 16mp can capture more info than the 4mp.
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Also tip ... The HDR mode on the m8 is not working properly. When I shoot in auto I tend to get VASTLY better results in lighting and clarity than in HDR mode - as the HDR mode tends to over expose far more than just standard Auto mode.
If you want to use HDR mode, try Googles own camera software. It produces better HDR shots than sense camera, so clearly there is some software issue there.
_____ unfair I know. 4mp v 34.4mp But yeah here you can see what I mean - cropped to fit this forum window/thread so that they both look same size and either is ok. Click on either and that's where the megapixels kick in. So viewed as a similar sized image to its rivals the M8 produces similar results, but viewed 100% and 4mp can't compete. But if you were sharing on Facebook / instagram / snapchat etc... then the difference between them would be negligable. Heck if you posted it in the tapatalk app on this forum - the difference would be negligible too as that crops and compresses images.
HTC m8 16:9 (4mp)
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Full res http://easydesign.macmate.me/photosmru/m8.jpg
Lumia 1020 16:9 (34.4mp)
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Full res http://easydesign.macmate.me/photosmru/lumia1020.jpg
I heard the M9 is already slated for release in Q1, 2015. Too soon?
http://www.phonedog.com/2014/06/10/htc-m9-htc-m9-prime-tipped-to-debut-in-q1-2015/
