One thing I suspect that gives the Note 2 its awesome battery life (other than the fact that it's 3100 mAh), would be the fact that it's underpowered.

Inside the Note 2 are basically the processors of the Galaxy S2, which is an older slower CPU/GPU setup.

With the Note 3/Z1, they're both up to date high end CPU/GPU running at FullHD..

I will have to disagree.

What if the photo that is to be taken is a night time landscape portrait?

Lumia's Xenon flash will overexpose the subject, while leaving the background all underexposed.

It's blur because the guy most likely is moving.

Just look at the shutter settings of 1/25. That is very insanely slow. Not to mention there is no Optical Image Stabilizer.

The slowest I would dare go on my SLR with IS is 1/60, and that is with a very good IS. Without IS I won't go anywhere below 1/100 on the wide angle.

Depends on the zoom level as well. On the fully wide end movement shakes are less obvious when compared to telephoto.

Technicality aside, seems like it could be the result of over aggressive noise reduction, that caused the hair to look blurry.

Not only about confusing. Custom ROM as well. With so many variants out there etc.. can you imagine all the headache finding a custom ROM or root method etc?

Accurate? Note 3 from what I see all has hints of blue in all those picture. And the screen I'm using to view has been colour calibrated. All the photo of the girls etc, they look like smurfs..

Note 3's speaker faces the hole/grill directly, and isn't waterproof.

Z1's speaker has the hole/grill on its side, and also has an extra layer over it for waterproof. Will always be a disadvantage here.

Edit: Looking at the photos, I don't see the note 3's speaker being at the back, but instead is at the bottom as well, so you may ignore my statement.

This post has been edited by Areas Elysian: Sep 20 2013, 06:08 PM

Still gotta remember, the Z1's speaker does have an extra layer over it.



This post has been edited by Areas Elysian: Sep 20 2013, 06:30 PM

For everyone else:

Google Image search for "AMOLED Burn In", without the quotes.

My GF just bought her Note II early this year. That's just about 7-8 months. There are already signs of burn in already. I can see her wallpaper and all on her browser, and when you change to full screen view, you can see the navigation bar burnt into the screen.

My honest opinion and suggestion. This is one of those where you are better off not noticing if you don't already notice it. Once you see it, it will be hard to un-see it and it will be bugging you for the rest of the life of that phone with you. LOL.

Edit: Stupid me. Just search for a dead pixel test or something. I tried this "Dead Pixel Test" by Ossibus Software and it does the same as what the image does.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...e.deadpixeltest

Set the screen brightness to MAX (disable auto brightness), and view it full screen.

The colour should be the same for the whole screen. If you notice any darker spots, that's where the degrading happens.

You're basically testing for the degrading of the individual pixels. As it is a single image of the same colour, you can tell where the degrading happens

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This post has been edited by Areas Elysian: Sep 20 2013, 07:00 PM