many ppl being mislead with those camera manufacturer that playing the psychology with more megapixel mean better photos quality.
in actual, it does not mean so, unless you are a person that always want to crop the photo you take or you want to print a photo at the actual size of that large megapixel you take.
if you view a photo on a Full HD monitor which hv the maximum resolution of 1080 x 1920, a 2MP photo already more than the monitor can show at 100%.
so, even you view a 16MP photo on a Full HD monitor, you still have the same quality as viewing a 2MP photo.
As that is the max the monitor can display.
Unless you have the Ultra HD with 4K resolution of 2160 x 3840 then maybe you need at least 10MP to fully utilize the screen.
stormlcc also mentioned that the size is the main concern with more megapixel. the more megapixel you have with your camera, the bigger the file size.
the bigger the file size mean bigger storage you need and the more time you need to load the photo.
why waste storage, loading time for more megapixel photo that you mostly will only view on yr HP or even on yr TV or PC monitor that is only Full HD size?
Erm... Anyway, you can't deny the truth that Note 3 camera is no slouch (bring 1020/808/DSLR away from this discussion though). Btw, my discussion is not on the camera hardware itself. I know that megapixel count means nothing.
's point but I still hope to have a slightly higher res photosphere and panorama. Possibly adding in a option for us to choose resolution? Sometimes, it just feel like not enough just to take a normal picture because you want to put all the breath-taking scene into one continuous picture. Then, when you can do so, you do it by sacrificing resolution. This is the situation which I hoped Google made its Photosphere and Panorama higher in resolution. No need to par the resolution Note 3 offers but at least double that of current photosphere/panorama will be fine.