uploading original for you all to judge.

ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/33
Aperture: 2.6

u notice the sharpness is from post processing, color noise quite apparent. environment in low light.


ISO: 1250
Shutter: 1/33
Aperture: 2.6

very low light environment, u see the white paper has some noise too. but considered very good.


ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/17
Aperture: 2.6

very nice detail captured considering low light + ISO 640.

all the samples here are in high ISO low light. camera settings set auto for most of the things, including scene.

the pictures look much nicer on phone cz of the smaller screen, if i resize these pictures, it will look very nice too. but i just wanna upload the full size for those pixel peepers.

a tip for shooting, try to hold yr phone as steady as possible to avoid shake and blur, which is seen in some pictures above. better still, enable voice command and say "Cheese" or "Smile" or "Shoot" so that you wont shake yr phone when pressing shutter.

decided to get the s3 first while waiting for htc to solve quality issues with the 1x.
besides, the earlier zerg rush had died out.
makes more sense to get it now since not intending to sign plan or forced into buying accessories.
arnd 10:30 am after taking bfast at coffee bean, strolled over to the mv blue cube outlet next to kenny rogers.
found out from the pak cik thr got abt 20 sets of pebble blue s3 selling at 2199.

no crowd, quite relaxed atmosphere...ok, so let's do this.

while waiting for pak cik and a young lcly chinese chap attending their customer, got one sorhai rushed in.
his face looked like he found God  after they told him got stock and it was pebble blue.
then he told a story abt how he rushed from celcom jln ampang, pavillion and capsquare before coming over here.
afterwds he sat down exhausted and played with the demo set.

was too polite to laugh at this guy.but in my heart was laughing at him.
well, tbph even the pak cik also shaked his head a bit.

when it was my turn, pak cik took out a new box, checked the phone together with me.
he even know the screen test code. 

chatted a bit with him...asked him abt the sales of s3,
"biasalah, benda baru. banyak org tengok, tak ramai yg beli. stok pun banyak"
"apa mau buat, free gift pun takde".

then i asked him whether he bought one...

"takde, tunggu iphone five"

asked me to go sep for accessories.

anyway, everythg seems ok, so cabut and test out the phone for normal usage.

initial impressions:

essentially it looks more like a beast than a beauty.

phone is huge.but good grip.
display is clear and good. but not excellent like h1x.

and finally, android have landed. although it took them a few years (4 generations) and quad core to achieve lag-free experience.


charging...