Me too---Just the other way around--I can't get rid of my GSIII or Note 1 fast enough...more like 99/100 times I prefer my iPhone 5
...and color gamut, and accuracy (sRGB), contrast rating in ambient light (reading outdoors), significantly less 'reflectance', and it's definitely the better looking phone for movies--absolutely No Doubt!!! Not sure if you got a 'dud' 5, but screen-wise, in damn near every meaningful (and objective measurement, other than size) way, trumps the SIII and Note OLED displays. Sorry--just wander over to Ars, Anand, or other display sites ala displaymate--here's an excellent 'shootout' between the SIII and iPhone 5
http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_2.htm
The 'problem' as you mentioned...half the brightness, HALF!!! Cartoon/Comic looking photos and videos due to the OLED pentile display, too much green, premature aging of the display itself--power consumption when any other color than black is shown, less sharp text, and the complete impossibility of reading the phone outdoors, especially on a sunny day
Good for you--I'm a photographer as well (lol, aren't we all!) but I'm not always toting my 5dIII or even my S110. I
always have my iPhone, and in decently lit areas, it's absolutely excellent! Not to mention; the ability to edit, print or share directly from the phone--impossible for me to replicate with my DSLR without the iPad on hand, cam connection kit, cables--or a full blown laptop w/wireless dongle.
Regardless of how
you as a photographer prefer to grab images, the public has spoken--no matter the sharing site, the iPhones are extremely popular cams with some very talented, long time (pro) photographers making pics from them that'll blow 99% of us away with our DSLRs! "It ain't the cam, it's the photographer"--you've heard this antiquated cliché, right?
No Joke!
This always makes me laugh, 'simplistic as the iPhone'. As a true, real, and proud geek, and computer user for 30 years now...the evolution of 'simplicity' on ALL OS'es is a sign of just how
powerful the underlying integration of soft and hardware is of said device. Computing shouldn't be 'advanced',
especially the OS. It should be efficient, fluent and above all--intuitive! This takes a helluva lot more effort and coordination than NOT having a device that relies on the user to set up an OS/Launcher/Themes/Widgets, et al...with many of these options hampering or completely decimating battery performance. The difference between leaving WiFi/GPS on with my GSIII or Note drains my battery
twice as fast as the iPhone (also with both enabled). It sucks you have to turn all of these features off (I exchanged my Note twice because I thought something was wrong after owning iPhones for three years!) just to get your phone to last the day!
As well---the apps available ALL work on iOS devices, regardless whether you're using a 3 year old iPhone or the latest iPad. Not so with the Play Store---half the apps 'see' the Note as a tablet, so they're non-functional....and I've owned the Xoom since release. While the Play store has an abundance of Apps---the App Store for iOS has so much better of a selection for polished, well designed with excellent performance---especially if you look outside the Netflix, Evernote and Dropbox apps. Photo editing, videography,
anything to do with music and/or audio production...excellent 'office' apps with the iWork suite, the list for excellent game titles is HUGE, not to mention immediate update availability to OS updates as soon as they release---and lastly I wanted to mention---Customer Support! HUGE victory to Apple here...have you ever tried to get a Sammy phone fixed? I have and what an absolute Nightmare!!!
Macs don't get 'buggy' after a while---PCs, yes. You can't 'turn off' the OLED faults. Sure. You can standardize saturation levels...and looking at you site, it looks like you know what you're doing in PP. You're using a monitor for editing, right? So you're definitely aware of the photographic limitations of OLED?
Why are you here? Why the need for self-justification? Why not go to an Android forum? Your responses have nothing to do with switching from GSIII to the iPhone 5!
It is funny---however, as an Android owner myself, you quickly fin out how 'inactive' most of the Android forums are...they're boring, little activity, and much, MUCH less involved than MR... I think what we are seeing here, at MR, are those Android owners that are ready to make the move to iOS
Or juvenile, Samsung 'plants' attempting to sway iOS users.
J
