Due to a “mishap” with my old phone, I found myself with a brand spanking new phone recently. I had been overdue for a replacement for nearly a year, and the technology had gotten a bit dated, considering that I run a lot of stuff on my phone that hadn’t been invented when I bought it.
My old phone was a Samsung Galaxy S3. It was a pretty good phone, but had started to slow dramatically and was eating batteries like I eat cookies. The latest reviews were raving about the camera in the new Galaxy S6, so I decided to give it a try. I haven’t taken many photos with it yet, but I’ve been pretty impressed with the ones I’ve taken so far.
I just may have changed my mind about using my phone as a camera. Or is it using my camera as a phone? I forget. More to come!
Well, there’s no doubt that phones-as-cameras (or, as you say, vice versa) are here to stay, Tom. And they’re getting pretty darned good. I use my iphone more as a camera than I use it as a phone! If the phone part stopped working I probably wouldn’t know it for days……..
In my mind, the phone camera makes great “postcard” images. And it’s pretty good with people pictures. But it’s technically limited in so many ways. So hang on to that DSLR!
Don’t worry about me, Paul! I think the DSLR is here to stay for me, at least for a while. It is nice to have confidence that the phone takes pretty good photos, for those rare moments where you actually want to use the phone instead of whatever you had intended to do. 😉
I purchased the Samsung S5 last fall and I use it 95% of the time as a mini tablet, 5% of the time for text messages and 3% of the time for notes and Evernote. Oh, and the rest of the time I use it to make phone calls. No games.
They make games for phones?!?! 😉 Pretty soon they’ll have maps and stuff too.