bioforger

iTrader: (1)

The S6 edge has some serious issues! It appears that they work out of the box but if you do a fast charge (making the battery very hot), the accelerometer chip seems to break. It might be the placement of the chip in relation to the battery, or it's possible that the chip maker just had a bad batch. Not sure if Samsung is using Invensense chips or not but I'm sure this is going to be something more than a little problem for Samsung and the chip maker if the numbers grow. It's possible this is only on the edge, which would lower the problems for Samsung. Once its cooked thats it no auto rotation anymore and you will need a new phone.

Also lots of people reporting issues with media/mp3 playback using the internal player, in that it does not find any of your media, regardless of what folders you put the media in, so you have to use a 3rd party player.

Also the prices for these are extortionate, minimum youre looking at 45-48pm for a 64GB edge (which is the only reasonable size i would consider) with a decent data plan.

I just had a play with an edge in a 3 store, lovely looking and feeling piece of kit, the edge functionality at the moment is a gimmick, nothing more and for the plan prices is it worth it or worth upgrading from say an S5? nah.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Of course it is...jack of all trades, master of none.

Devildog

The flaws in both are exposre control. The iphone over exposed slightly in daylight and the samsung over exposed slightly in artificial light (last pic particularly is poor on the samsung's part). Its an easy fix for both however assuming the Samsung has a live exposure adjustment available like the iphone does?

For the record, there was no flash on the orange thing with bulbs pic - there would be shadows behind it otherwise.

As someone who's spent many, many hours behind the lens and in post processing of digital images I'd call it pretty much a draw. Interestingly my wife's iphone 5S overexposes outdoors but my iphone 6 doesn't.

Whilst they are both very good for phone cameras they are still both comparatively poor by comparison to a decent sensor in a good DSLR with quality glass so let's not get too hung up on which one "wins"

JackClark

I'll definitely accept a draw. Both astonishing to me.

Matteeboy

Whatever the specs, phone cameras will always be pretty rubbish.

I recently bought a LUMIX TZ70 (30x OPTICAL zoom, etc) and it's not only just about pocket sized, it's also superb. Let's you do manual everything too (ISO, shutter speed, etc) and is the only compact of its type with a viewfinder.

Can't recommend it enough.

Meanwhile my iPhone 6 camera is okay in totally perfect conditions but ANY challenging light, etc and it's utter cack.