Unofficial Camera Test vs Samsung S3, Note II, and iPhone 4s - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

hi i just did this for fun as i own them and i want to know how good their cameras are compared to each other.
the devices are
-HTC EVO 4G LTE
-Samsung Galaxy S3
-Samsung Note II
-iPhone 4s
all devices are still stock no modification or camera modification performed
all photos are take with the built in camera app so no 3rd party camera app
all images in this samples are cropped 100% taken within the same time and with the same objects and conditions.
i dont claim this to be acccurate as i said before that this is unofficial
and i only did it out of my own curiosity
so here it is.
HTC EVO 4G LTE vs Samsung Galaxy S3 / Samsung Note II
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Samsung Galaxy S3 / Samsung Note II vs iPhone 4s
iPhone 4s VS HTC EVO 4G LTE
the good news are:
-HTC EVO 4G LTE Camera are much better than Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note II
the HTC images are obviously sharper, better colours and less noisy.
the bad news are:
-still no phones can "touch" the iPhone's camera
I'm using the iPhone 4s in this comparisons as i don't have the iPhone 5 yet still not availabe yet in my country
but even the 1 year old iPhone 4S beats all of the newer Android devices in terms of camera.
but i feel i can say that HTC Evo 4G LTE has the best camera of all current android phone line up.
(samsung Galaxy S3 and Note II are using the exact same camera module and camera app
their picture comes out to be exactly the same, so i just one of them in this comparisons.)
all i need to do now is to install the HQ camera mod for the EVOLTE and hoping it can beats the iPhone camera ( but crossing my fingers on this cause the camera in iPhone 4s is really really good. and i wonder how about the iPhone 5 )

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oh yeah and i forgot to mentions
the HTC eve 4G LTE has the best camera app compared to all the devices in this test
and also the f2.0 on the EVOLTE does help when you want the picture your taken to have those "bokeh" a blurry background shots like some of those expensive DSLR.

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With the sense 4.5 cam installed it blows away the I5 and S3. Attached are only 3 test shots, one of each. But I have may more to prove. I can't attach full rez images, but you can still tell. You can really tell with full rez zoomed up. I know white balance on the evo sucks, but other than that it kills. See the purple fringing on the I5?
1st pic s3
2nd pic I5
3rd pic evo

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pimpol10 said:
With the sense 4.5 cam installed it blows away the I5 and S3. Attached are only 3 test shots, one of each. But I have may more to prove. I can't attach full rez images, but you can still tell. You can really tell with full rez zoomed up. I know white balance on the evo sucks, but other than that it kills. See the purple fringing on the I5?
1st pic s3
2nd pic I5
3rd pic evo
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well i dont have an iphone 5 yet so icant really comment on the purple fringging problems
but compared to the iphone 4s, the iphone is way sharper than the HTC and the Samsung.
and i'm not a proffesional photographer either, but when i bought a DSLR or any other camera, what i looking for is the sharpness, and noise.
and the iphone 4s picture quality is noticably sharper and less noisy. the second place goes to EVOLTE , the Samsung is very noisy and not sharp at all.
colour wise dont really matter as you could easilly correct this problem on the PC/Mac.
BTW how can i have the sense 4.5 camera
thx ?

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Here you go. 4.5 is alot better than 4.0. Mainly because you can adjust the compression rate. I can really tell the difference when I do 0 compression. BTW, It's for the OneX but has been confirm to work perfect on the evo 4g lte. Make sure you adjust the settings to sharpness -2 and contrast +1. I've found these optimizes the IQ. I know the WB can be corrected, but it'll be just more convenient if it came out right in the first place.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867966

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pimpol10 said:
Here you go. 4.5 is alot better than 4.0. Mainly because you can adjust the compression rate. I can really tell the difference when I do 0 compression. BTW, It's for the OneX but has been confirm to work perfect on the evo 4g lte. Make sure you adjust the settings to sharpness -2 and contrast +1. I've found these optimizes the IQ. I know the WB can be corrected, but it'll be just more convenient if it came out right in the first place.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867966
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I'm using the 4.5 sense camera now, where is the compression setting? Thanks
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pimpol10 said:
With the sense 4.5 cam installed it blows away the I5 and S3. Attached are only 3 test shots, one of each. But I have may more to prove. I can't attach full rez images, but you can still tell. You can really tell with full rez zoomed up. I know white balance on the evo sucks, but other than that it kills. See the purple fringing on the I5?
1st pic s3
2nd pic I5
3rd pic evo
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Look at the purple glow on the i5 flick

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I don't know if it's true or not! Because i try my camera ( viper4g rom ) with the iPhone 5 of my boss and the quality of the picture was better on my cell! Evo lte and he was like , then i said yeah my phone is better
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Flashed that camera said successful but it's still the same app hmm...
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Idk but when the evo LTE is taken off of widescreen, the quality is amazing for a cell phone. But not that amazing for a f.2.0, the LTE pretty much kills the iPhone when used to focus. But to point and shoot the iPhone does a better job at focus metering. That being said,when both cameras used to full potential,day or night. The evo cant be touched.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium

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+1 try taking photos at night with the Iphone and you will be done comparing. Apple never got that down compared to HTC
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waterbound said:
+1 try taking photos at night with the Iphone and you will be done comparing. Apple never got that down compared to HTC
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Uh neither does my lte...
Pics at night or in low light conditions suck on my lte and iPhone 4s.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium

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Since i work and play with all the devices and own S2,S3, EVOLTE and had iSuck5 I can honestly say the EVO has the best camera. I did some side by side testing S3 vs iSuck and the S3 when still and focusing kills the iSuck that being said the S2 destroyed the S3 and is on par w the EVO. All in all if your buying a phone for camera then the EVO is the way to go if your buying for LTE then S3 would be the way to go.

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Quis89 said:
Uh neither does my lte...
Pics at night or in low light conditions suck on my lte and iPhone 4s.
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Lmao,the iPhone 4s doesn't even have a reason to come out of my pocket at night because it can't catch anything without some sort of lighting, which means it doesnt suck at night shots,it just doesn't work at all! The evo LTE on the other hand sucks at night shots(like all phones except the n920) but atleast it will still catch the background and foreground at night. I have used a lot of cameras and use cameras daily. I must say for day,night,action the evo LTE is pretty good with the new sense 4.5 camera
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The colors from day shots look exactly like it does in person.
Night shots on the other hand get somewhat blurry under certain conditions,but also one of a few devices that can take decent low light shots.
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app

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Can't figure out how to post full resolution on that day shot. Mods feel free to delete. Compressed photos are useless

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slowfncar said:
Lmao,the iPhone 4s doesn't even have a reason to come out of my pocket at night because it can't catch anything without some sort of lighting, which means it doesnt suck at night shots,it just doesn't work at all! The evo LTE on the other hand sucks at night shots(like all phones except the n920) but atleast it will still catch the background and foreground at night. I have used a lot of cameras and use cameras daily. I must say for day,night,action the evo LTE is pretty good with the new sense 4.5 camera
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^^^^^^^ yep. My Note II, my wife's Iphone5 both can't do low light for jack. Evo LTE with 4.5 camera is hard to beat. One thing I miss about my Evo (my kid is loving it, she wouldn't even give it back to me for this Note II).

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It's amazing how much the photo quality can differ purely from tweaking backend settings for the camera.
i.e. Until a few months ago I was an engineer at Research In Motion. I'd hang out with the camera department sometimes and we'd play with different prototypes and camera settings. The bottom line is trying to find the sweet spot that'll work for most situations for most people using the abilities of the camera sensor.
fyi, The OS7 Blackberrys use the same camera sensor as the iPhone4

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Really enjoy this EVO LTE camera !
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Here's some night shots with flash and without
Sent from my LTEVO