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I'm really not seeing anything worth upgrading my Note 4 for with the S7 from leaks so far if there all true. 12MP camera down from 16MP? Sure it will be better in low light but still seems disapointing. Same screen resolution. Design not much different from the previous model. Trying to make out that the SDcard is a new feature when they were crazy to get rid of it before and im sure everyone saw that coming after the backlash. Seems like its just the run of the mill upgrades of a faster CPU/GPU and 1GB more ram.

Maybe its just me but i don't see much innovation there and certainly no reason to go to a S7 from my Note 4.

I hope the Note 6 this year is a big change as with how slow Samsung have been with software updates in the past this might be the year i try a different brand.
 
Matson said:
I'm really not seeing anything worth upgrading my Note 4 for with the S7 from leaks so far if there all true. 12MP camera down from 16MP? Sure it will be better in low light but still seems disapointing. Same screen resolution. Design not much different from the previous model. Trying to make out that the SDcard is a new feature when they were crazy to get rid of it before and im sure everyone saw that coming after the backlash. Seems like its just the run of the mill upgrades of a faster CPU/GPU and 1GB more ram.


Maybe its just me but i don't see much innovation there and certainly no reason to go to a S7 from my Note 4.

I hope the Note 6 this year is a big change as with how slow Samsung have been with software updates in the past this might be the year i try a different brand.
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There hasn't been any huge innovations in android smartphones since the s3 era
 
Why is 12MP from 16MP disappointing? I have yet to see evidence showing that on a regular basis someone needs to print something so large that a 16 (or even 12) MP sensor would have helped. At 8MP setting, you get a 4K resolution image.
 
Because its still a regression not a progression and the higher MP the more detail you capture in a image. Obviously the bigger you print the better its going to look with higher MP. Not to mention its going to look considerably better when zooming in aswell. The Z5 for example has a 23mp camera. 12 might be fine but where is the 2 years of progression from the note 4 that I own? I Just don't see much in the specs at all that are worth upgrading for.
The new LG g5 is rumoured to be 20MP with dual lenses. Of course until we get official info nothing is final but the S7 isn't exciting me.
 
It has a bigger sensor. There's your progression right there. And yes, 12 MP is plenty of pixels for a sensor that size. The advantages of larger pixels outweigh those of more pixels here.
 
9 times out of 10 you're not capturing more detail, you're capturing more noise. Note 4 is poor in low light, I'd gladly give up 4mp for better low light performance.
 
Matson said:
Because its still a regression not a progression and the higher MP the more detail you capture in a image. Obviously the bigger you print the better its going to look with higher MP. Not to mention its going to look considerably better when zooming in aswell. The Z5 for example has a 23mp camera. 12 might be fine but where is the 2 years of progression from the note 4 that I own? I Just don't see much in the specs at all that are worth upgrading for.
The new LG g5 is rumoured to be 20MP with dual lenses. Of course until we get official info nothing is final but the S7 isn't exciting me.
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Not true. On a phone 12MP is fine, as quality is much more important due to smaller sensor size. 12MP still allows cropping, but on a phone sensor you wouldn't want to blow it up too much anyway.
 
Matson said:
Because its still a regression not a progression and the higher MP the more detail you capture in a image. Obviously the bigger you print the better its going to look with higher MP. Not to mention its going to look considerably better when zooming in aswell. The Z5 for example has a 23mp camera. 12 might be fine but where is the 2 years of progression from the note 4 that I own? I Just don't see much in the specs at all that are worth upgrading for.
The new LG g5 is rumoured to be 20MP with dual lenses. Of course until we get official info nothing is final but the S7 isn't exciting me.
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The cameras in the iPhones prove why MP in this day and age are irrelevant.

Sure if you're going to print the image onto a canvas then it will show, but then you're better off using a DSLR.

I'd say the 12MP will still outshine the older cameras.
 
To this day I've never yet printed a picture taken with my smartphone, they all sit on a hard drive & from time to time i have a gander at them maybe post one or two to Facebook ect.

a lot of people do this or just leave them on their phones, or uploaded to the cloud and never print one single image, so 12mp is more than enough for the average snapshot smartphone user.

The pictures that i have printed in the past have been taken with a DSLR, as i want the best possible picture quality if it going to be hanging on my walls.
 
Matson said:
Because its still a regression not a progression and the higher MP the more detail you capture in a image. Obviously the bigger you print the better its going to look with higher MP. Not to mention its going to look considerably better when zooming in aswell. The Z5 for example has a 23mp camera. 12 might be fine but where is the 2 years of progression from the note 4 that I own? I Just don't see much in the specs at all that are worth upgrading for.
The new LG g5 is rumoured to be 20MP with dual lenses. Of course until we get official info nothing is final but the S7 isn't exciting me.
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Latest rumours peg 16mp and 8MP for G5

And the S7 is progression:confused:.
Especially If its rumoured at 1/2".
 
Matson doesn't really understand how camera sensors work. Megapixels are good, but the drawbacks often outweigh the positives, and for the most part we passed that mark years ago. This isn't a Nikon D810 (36MP is even phenomenal for a pro-level DLSR, and it costs a couple of thousand without a lens)... this is a phone. Can the Z5 justify having 13MP less than the massively more powerful D810? Not even a little bit in terms of quality - it's just marketing and has been for nearly a decade now.

I made this argument when the HTC M7 was announced 3 years back in the flying in the face of the megapixel race. OK it was horribly implemented (as has every HTC camera been before and since to a degree) and 4MP was on the low side (edit: it's still around 2200x1700), but you could see what they were trying to do.
 
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I think 10 to 12mp is bang on. That gives us 4k shots / video with plenty room to spare for digital IS implimentations. 12mp,OIS+DIS and make the sensor as big as possible. Simples?
 
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