Is Camera Zoom FX any good for SGS3? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello guys.
For starters, I'm not quite sure if this is the proper place for this topic, but since I'm not posting the app or providing any usefull information in the OP I guess Q&A will do.
I'm wondering if Camera Zoom FX is any good, if it excels the stock GT-i9300 camera in any other way than giving the possibility to add frames and some basic effects.
A friend of mine used to have this app in his old android phone and while he was amazed by all the "fancy stuff", It was quite not clear for me if the application actually does improve the way that the device take/store the picture. I refer to the people of this forum because since my buddy's phone was not a SGS3, the features or performance of the application may differ.
TL;DR: Does Camera Zoom FX improve the way the camera works?
Thanks.-
PS: Also, feel free to give some insight about any worthy feature I might be missing.

Nope, you will not get any better image quality... In fact I even think stock camera will give you better images
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Same with the guys above me. I think the stock camera can do almost everything needed. + it's free
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well stock camera is the best
and if you want to buy the camera zoom fx is okay since just USD 25 cents

XeactorZ said:
well stock camera is the best
and if you want to buy the camera zoom fx is okay since just USD 25 cents
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Yes, I saw the offer and decided to ask first because I don't have an International working card (I'm from Argentina), so if I wanted to buy such an app I would have to bother someone else in order to borrow an international working one. Google Wallet wont accept my debit card
If there is no real improvement I guess it's not worth the effort, even if it's only USD 25 cents.-

Bought it last time when Google offered it at usd 0.10
But other than the fancy stuff, it doesn't make the pictures better quality.
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Not any good bro
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The stock camera is definitely better. But having said that, if you running CM10 or AOKP, this app might be better than the AOSP camera app.

moded version of S3 camera better

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Seeing as how we have almost identical specs was wondering if we can get this ported over for the Evo 3D.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...stom UI - HQ - v0.1 [DirectDownload] No beta.
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The camera's between the two phones are not even in the same ballpark.
Oh how bout that! Forgot they had a single 8MP camera. Damn stupid 3D camera! Not only do they suck at taking 3D stuff they also suck at regular pics! Saw this posted somewhere else I thought it could help our camera.
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Camera works fine for me....
It's just bigger, not better.
We might not be able to use that file but our Dev's should at least be able to accomplish the same thing. I would guess the settings would be the same.
I find the camera to take decent pictures but if they get rid of the compression it would probably be a lot better of a camera. The picture quality in that thread looks fantastic with the modded settings.

For people considering an amaze..

The biggest selling point so far would be the camera quality.. if the camera is important to you, the amaze is the phone for you. Besides the phone being quite snappy(I'm coming from a Samsung galaxy s), and some other notable perks.. the camera really is high quality. It focuses faster, captures much higher quality than my last 5mp phone did.. and the phone overall does everything you could expect a phone to do.
I am happy with the amaze. I'm not a heavy user, and if you are I would say buy a spare battery.. but otherwise I would say this is a great device to upgrade to. I did a fair amount of research, and I would say this phone is a big upgrade from any other phone tmobile has to offer. Buy it, there is no good reason I can find not to.
Not the best picture in the world, but here is an example of the quality you can get with the built in panoramic pictures.. normal and hdr are even better, but for the quality of panoramic pictures from stock app to be this good.. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13692699/IMAG0008.jpg
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Seconded... HTC is overall better quality.
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Third the camera post the camera is amazing I miss my amaze's camera I have a galaxy s 2 now and its nowhere near as good as the amaze. in low light you might as well have a VGA camera with this gs2 the amaze really performed well. The battery life was great on my part coming from the sensation it was better I think people expect too much out of large touchscreen devices when it comes to battery life.
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ebatr8 said:
Third the camera post the camera is amazing I miss my amaze's camera I have a galaxy s 2 now and its nowhere near as good as the amaze. in low light you might as well have a VGA camera with this gs2 the amaze really performed well. The battery life was great on my part coming from the sensation it was better I think people expect too much out of large touchscreen devices when it comes to battery life.
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I agree.. with juice defender I got 21 hours out of the battery yesterday. Having it only allow data every 15 minutes with screen off and 4g with screen on didn't inconvenience me at all.. today I'm going to see how long it lasts without juice defender.. and I just got my spare batteries so it doesn't really matter anymore anyways.
Overall, I'm very happy with this phone.
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ebatr8 said:
Third the camera post the camera is amazing I miss my amaze's camera I have a galaxy s 2 now and its nowhere near as good as the amaze. in low light you might as well have a VGA camera with this gs2 the amaze really performed well. The battery life was great on my part coming from the sensation it was better I think people expect too much out of large touchscreen devices when it comes to battery life.
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I heard on a video a girl saying the still pictures got better quality in the dark with the sgs ii lol, it made no sense to me but she seemed pretty convinced xD
Don't forget the audio quality, music quality to be specific! Headphones with either SRS or EQ enabled is top quality for any phone. I'm using my Nexus for now, still have my Amaze and I can say music and camera apps for the Amaze make great purchase points!
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With fauxs kernal and beastmod.... No need for another battery.
Trevorhimself said:
Don't forget the audio quality, music quality to be specific! Headphones with either SRS or EQ enabled is top quality for any phone. I'm using my Nexus for now, still have my Amaze and I can say music and camera apps for the Amaze make great purchase points!
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Actually, I agree. The quality of the audio is noticeably better than my old phone. Another big perk, listening to poweramp on this phone doesn't seem to kill battery like it used to on my vibrant.. very impressed.
Turboboxer said:
http://i.imgur.com/qidph.jpg
With fauxs kernal and beastmod.... No need for another battery.
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I never saw a good description of what is different about fauxes kernel, or if the ones included with roms are stock.. I know fauxes allows oc, but I haven't been interested enough to look into it more than that. If I get better battery maybe I'll give it a go, though I'm pretty happy thus far.
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The downside would be if you are a crack flasher then this phone is not for you.
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xsteven77x said:
The downside would be if you are a crack flasher then this phone is not for you.
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Not true, copy the battery stats file before flashing, flash, put back old file.. problem solved. Any rom can include a script that does this as part of the flashing of the rom, but still easy enough to do yourself.
Silentbtdeadly said:
Not true, copy the battery stats file before flashing, flash, put back old file.. problem solved. Any rom can include a script that does this as part of the flashing of the rom, but still easy enough to do yourself.
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He was saying there aren't a lot of roms haha.
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Silentbtdeadly said:
Actually, I agree. The quality of the audio is noticeably better than my old phone. Another big perk, listening to poweramp on this phone doesn't seem to kill battery like it used to on my vibrant.. very impressed.
I never saw a good description of what is different about fauxes kernel, or if the ones included with roms are stock.. I know fauxes allows oc, but I haven't been interested enough to look into it more than that. If I get better battery maybe I'll give it a go, though I'm pretty happy thus far.
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It also under volts AKA saves power consumption at times when phone is not being used or just tweaked to consume less even in use.
Silentbtdeadly said:
Not true, copy the battery stats file before flashing, flash, put back old file.. problem solved. Any rom can include a script that does this as part of the flashing of the rom, but still easy enough to do yourself.
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What does that have to do with being addicted to flashing roms.
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xsteven77x said:
What does that have to do with being addicted to flashing roms.
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I probably misread it, I think I was pretty tired when I replied..
Only downside is the flash bleeds into night pictures. Have to tape it.
Silentbtdeadly said:
The biggest selling point so far would be the camera quality.. if the camera is important to you, the amaze is the phone for you. Besides the phone being quite snappy(I'm coming from a Samsung galaxy s), and some other notable perks.. the camera really is high quality. It focuses faster, captures much higher quality than my last 5mp phone did.. and the phone overall does everything you could expect a phone to do.
I am happy with the amaze. I'm not a heavy user, and if you are I would say buy a spare battery.. but otherwise I would say this is a great device to upgrade to. I did a fair amount of research, and I would say this phone is a big upgrade from any other phone tmobile has to offer. Buy it, there is no good reason I can find not to.
Not the best picture in the world, but here is an example of the quality you can get with the built in panoramic pictures.. normal and hdr are even better, but for the quality of panoramic pictures from stock app to be this good.. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13692699/IMAG0008.jpg
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hacking the Camera.apk

for those of you who are unaware, Samsung likes to put parental controls on their Camera. youll have limits on when youre allowed to open the camera, such as below 15% battery, during music, while youre in a call (where its bluetooth or not), and during media scanning. on top of these limitations, youll also be faced with a mandatory shutter and focus sound, whether your sound is muted or not.
on all of the previous Galaxy phones, weve been luckily enough to have developers mod the camera.apk to fix these broken implementations. Fr4gg0r on the Galaxy S, and pulser_g2 on the Galaxy S II. who will be the one to mod the Galaxy S III Camera.apk?
anyone up for the challenge?
edit:
ive updated the Camera.apk attached to an odexed version
Can you post the camera.apk here, so that we can try?
I have my SGS3 on preorder here in the Netherlands, so I have 3 weeks to go...
soraxd said:
for those of you who are unaware, Samsung likes to put parental controls on their Camera. youll have limits on when youre allowed to open the camera, such as below 15% battery, during music, while youre in a call (where its bluetooth or not), and during media scanning. on top of these limitations, youll also be faced with a mandatory shutter and focus sound, whether your sound is muted or not.
on all of the previous Galaxy phones, weve been luckily enough to have developers mod the camera.apk to fix these broken implementations. Fr4gg0r on the Galaxy S, and pulser_g2 on the Galaxy S II. who will be the one to mod the Galaxy S III Camera.apk?
anyone up for the challenge?
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Are you serious?
These might be deal breakers for me. I actually use the camera of my phone a lot and things like this are a giant annoyance.
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hefonthefjords said:
Are you serious?
These might be deal breakers for me. I actually use the camera of my phone a lot and things like this are a giant annoyance.
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This is why they hack;-) lol deal breakers become broken and we all become happy!
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I suppose I can be your man
As soon as you find a system/ dump share it here so I can start with it
Do a system dump.
1min is all I need
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LeoMar75 said:
Do a system dump.
1min is all I need
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this dude right here ^^
Wonder if we can also discover some hidden gems like the HTC Sensation? They managed to churn 10mp shooter to 20mp. =O
Can some one give it a full manual mode so we can set f stop and shutter speeds including ISO manually.
I so want an app like this.
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If support for the reported 120fps the hardware supports could be implemented, that would be legendary. I don't care what resolution it drops to really, but for me it would be extremely useful.
120fps, youd probably need a custom camera app for that, not a modded one
i know Fast Camera in the market can do some impressive stuff, even on SGS2
krazykat said:
Wonder if we can also discover some hidden gems like the HTC Sensation? They managed to churn 10mp shooter to 20mp. =O
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Huh? The sensation only has an 8mp camera
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NIK516 said:
Can some one give it a full manual mode so we can set f stop and shutter speeds including ISO manually.
I so want an app like this.
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I don't think a tiny camera module like these even have an physical aperture.
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soraxd said:
120fps, youd probably need a custom camera app for that, not a modded one
i know Fast Camera in the market can do some impressive stuff, even on SGS2
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is it this you mean? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spritefish.fastburstcamera
yeah fast burst camera, that one
How is this going? I would love to see a camera-mod to remove shutter sound and other limitations on the camera
nezhina said:
How is this going? I would love to see a camera-mod to remove shutter sound and other limitations on the camera
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Just turn on vibrate or mute from the pulldown bar and you'll have no shutter sound.
I find it almost concerning that the pics form my S3 are only 1.5mb filesize, my S2 they were twice that and with hte old GB modded camera apk they were nearer 6mb
the pics like great but i cant help feeling that I am not geting as much detail as is capable?
Lot of good replies.. id like to See a 60fps at 720p which should be possible since the iphone 4s has it and we have the same sensor

Do you use the camera on your GP5.0?

Do you use your Galaxy Player 5.0's camera? What app do you use, or you use stock. Post some pics
Just wondering the quality, cuz my quality on is bad-decent. Just wondering if I could make it any better.
I rarely use it but I use the stock app. Quality wise it's good no complaints here's a back yard photo
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I have the 4.0, not the 5.0.. But I always use the camera on it.
I usually use Pro Capture rather than the stock camera though.
I think the quality is pretty decent actually. Better than I expected it to be.
Kinda wish I had a flash like the 5.0, but whatever. lol
The quality is better than a family members 7-8 MP Kodak digicam, for sure. lol
Here's a recent shot from a hike~ (resized for forum)
2 moon shots from my GP 4.0~
and one from the Kodak digicam~
I think The Galaxy Player wins. lol
:good:
Cool moon pics!
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Holy cow, how do you get such big pictures of the moon without optical zoom? No optical zoom is the reason my galaxy player (or any other smart device) will ever replace my camera.
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atcq28 said:
Cool moon pics!
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thanks.
mirror is dirty as heck. lol
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iJimaniac said:
Holy cow, how do you get such big pictures of the moon without optical zoom? No optical zoom is the reason my galaxy player (or any other smart device) will ever replace my camera.
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I just held my galaxy players cam lens up to one of my telescopes eyepieces. lol
that was a 5 inch- Newtonian scope I think.
This was taken with my 5.0, no edit at all. You just have to know how to use the camera to get good quality pics. I have more pics like this one
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Here is a demo of flash and macro together.
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I uce isc camera + because it has option for 8mbt data for video which is much better then on stock camera.
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I don't ever use the camera. I'm on ICS. Troll
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Even when I was on Gingerbread, I never used the camera. It is inadequate and insufficient to get what I want out of a photograph. There is no "real" zoom on the lens and the megapixel count on the device is never going to produce any pictures of print quality.
Thus, for my photography needs, I go to a Nikon D7000 DSLR. In contrast, however, my wife uses Canon's Powershot Series camera, which is a very powerful, much cheaper alternative to a DSLR.
Higgs_Boson said:
Even when I was on Gingerbread, I never used the camera. It is inadequate and insufficient to get what I want out of a photograph. There is no "real" zoom on the lens and the megapixel count on the device is never going to produce any pictures of print quality.
Thus, for my photography needs, I go to a Nikon D7000 DSLR. In contrast, however, my wife uses Canon's Powershot Series camera, which is a very powerful, much cheaper alternative to a DSLR.
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I dont agree,i printed more then 100 pictures and they are very good(off coure not pro but dslr you care only in some situation and phone or player is always with you) ,there is no real zoom on any smartphone and there will not be in near future.
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DZonikg said:
I dont agree,i printed more then 100 pictures and they are very good(off coure not pro but dslr you care only in some situation and phone or player is always with you) ,there is no real zoom on any smartphone and there will not be in near future.
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Obviously you've never heard of the Samsung Galaxy Camera......
raishiro said:
Obviously you've never heard of the Samsung Galaxy Camera......
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I heard but that is a camera with android
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I love the camera on my player but I'm willing to not use it for the small time being because CM10 is coming out with a 3.xx kernel so the Camera will be working in no time.
I'm a bit reluctant to update to one of the ICS roms because I use the camera so often. Sure, it doesn't compare to a dedicated device but it's more than adequate image quality for sharing and/or even printing if you play around enough with the settings. Night shots are obviously pretty bad but can't say I expected much more from a tablet's camera.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-3go4TqxLIAMFVQNUhPTWFOWEE
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-3go4TqxLIASXZVOHZxRmNtRnc
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-3go4TqxLIASUZSYzNxdnZqdDg
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-3go4TqxLIAaEZTTG1panBJbEk
Some mushrooms, taken with my 4.0
I forgot to put Macro on, but still came out pretty decent.
Anyone who says this isn't "good enough" for the quick snapping of pics, is :silly: lol
Obviously one wouldn't use these cameras for professional photography, but to say it's "not even good enough to use" is ridiculous.

Active display on SGS4?

Running my mind ragged whether I should get the S4, the HTC One or the Moto X (or Droid Maxxx) (I know I know, camera. I know.)
What I was wondering was, since the S4 is Super AMOLED, does it have the ability to incorporate the active display that the Moto X has or is Super AMOLED a totally different beast?
Ehh it can.. But it doesn't have the Motos low power chip to handle the notifications and pulse the screen, so any 3rd party app you install to do it, will kill your battery.
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hollovoid said:
Ehh it can.. But it doesn't have the Motos low power chip to handle the notifications and pulse the screen, so any 3rd party app you install to do it, will kill your battery.
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Now that you mentioned that, I remembered reading that somewhere else.
It's crazy that in this day and age we haven't yet a phone that can provide 3 things: 1)amazing build quality with loud calls 2) a great camera 3)extremely long battery life/battery saving processing
drtchocky said:
Now that you mentioned that, I remembered reading that somewhere else.
It's crazy that in this day and age we haven't yet a phone that can provide 3 things: 1)amazing build quality with loud calls 2) a great camera 3)extremely long battery life/battery saving processing
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Agreed, I do like the s4 more than I figured I would tho, signal reception is just as good as the razr hd it replaced, (was worried as every sammy I had before had horrible reception), Battery life really isnt bad and I regularly get 24 hrs with normal use, the screen is absolutely beautiful, performance is great, and the camera just blows the razr hd's away. I miss being unlocked sometimes, but I thought id be returning this and ended up keeping it.
I live in a rear apartment. Reception I believe will always btw horrible bit o believe that build can decrease reception, rendering awful reception non-existent, so I think that may be my number one priority. I have two kids and I love the S3 camera... maybe I'll get the S4 and put a GE Rom on.
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drtchocky said:
I live in a rear apartment. Reception I believe will always btw horrible bit o believe that build can decrease reception, rendering awful reception non-existent, so I think that may be my number one priority. I have two kids and I love the S3 camera... maybe I'll get the S4 and put a GE Rom on.
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Check to make sure you get a non updated phone if you wanna do that, mine came pre updated so I couldn't do roms.
Good tip
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Good tip
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It hasn't mattered to me that much since usually when I get to flashing roms on a phone it's because the stock rom is god awful slow, but this phone is so fast it doesn't bother me. I can imagine a nice rom on this runs pretty sweet though.
I just hate hate hate touchwiz. Also.I can do without the gazillion extras they added.... I really don't need so many tricks for the camera. Just hood hardware and snapseed
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drtchocky said:
I just hate hate hate touchwiz. Also.I can do without the gazillion extras they added.... I really don't need so many tricks for the camera. Just hood hardware and snapseed
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I hear you, I dont use any of the extras with this phone, and nova went on before the end of the first day, already froze most of the TW stuff, I do like all the stuff the camera can do, but as long as the AOSP cam can take good pics Id be ok with that too, the TW cam does take some pretty nice pictures though Been quite impressed actually.
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I hear you, I dont use any of the extras with this phone, and nova went on before the end of the first day, already froze most of the TW stuff, I do like all the stuff the camera can do, but as long as the AOSP cam can take good pics Id be ok with that too, the TW cam does take some pretty nice pictures though Been quite impressed actually.
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I think the hardware is solid... so any software lumped on to pilot it will do well. I tend to like the uncluttered look and feel of the stock camera. I am going by today to check out the s4 again. If the X is really out one the 29th, it would give me one day to make a decision in order to take advantage of the $50 + $10 off coupons.
drtchocky said:
I think the hardware is solid... so any software lumped on to pilot it will do well. I tend to like the uncluttered look and feel of the stock camera. I am going by today to check out the s4 again. If the X is really out one the 29th, it would give me one day to make a decision in order to take advantage of the $50 + $10 off coupons.
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Really don't think you can go wrong between the two, I had actually picked this up because I sold my Razr HD, and could not stand using the LG Ally backup phone I had any longer, knowing I had 14 days to decide I grabbed the S4, and its what im gonna keep. Good luck with whatever you choose!

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