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iPhone 4S Becomes Second Most Popular Cameraphone on Flickr

alhedges said:
Lower is better on that (admittedly confusing) ZDNet chart - the N8 comes in last.
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True. Saw a review online comparing the 4S, N8 and N9. The 4S and N9 basically tied and both beat the N8. I guess megapixels aint everything.

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Rot'nApple said:
What do ALL those OTHER Android based phones do with their photos? :eek:

Guess :apple: people just gotta say it with pictures! :D
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Their batteries died before they could upload the photos! LOL!
 
I am going to so retire from Macrumors and Apple insider because these fools keep talking about trivial sh** like this article.
The most successful 2nd camera phone on effing flickr? Seriously?!
 
I Have To Admit

That I never really used my 4's camera a lot. I found it fiddly and lacking in quality compared to my other stuff.

The 4S is a different animal, a perfectly passable 8MPixel camera, and I am determined to use it more.
 
One should not read too much into such Flickr data. Remember the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' sampling error Chicago Tribune committed decades ago. iPhone users on the average are more tech savvy than Android users. So though there are a lot more Android phones out there that can take pictures, majority of those users do not undertake the tech-savvy activity of getting the photos off of the phone and post it to sites like Flickr. That will partly explain the iOS vs Android difference.
 
liavman said:
One should not read too much into such Flickr data. Remember the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' sampling error Chicago Tribune committed decades ago. iPhone users on the average are more tech savvy than Android users. So though there are a lot more Android phones out there that can take pictures, majority of those users do not undertake the tech-savvy activity of getting the photos off of the phone and post it to sites like Flickr. That will partly explain the iOS vs Android difference.
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I don't think iPhone users are generally more tech savvy than Android users.
 
Given the convenience and quality of my iPhone 4 camera, I've stopped carrying my Canon still camera around with me when I'm out and about on weekend adventures. Only when I'm on a real out-of-town vacation, usually to see and photograph scenery, do I lug the "big" camera along.
 
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haruhiko said:
liavman said:
One should not read too much into such Flickr data. Remember the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' sampling error Chicago Tribune committed decades ago. iPhone users on the average are more tech savvy than Android users. So though there are a lot more Android phones out there that can take pictures, majority of those users do not undertake the tech-savvy activity of getting the photos off of the phone and post it to sites like Flickr. That will partly explain the iOS vs Android difference.
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I don't think iPhone users are generally more tech savvy than Android users.
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They totally aren't. Fact of the matter is, nobody uses Flickr anymore. Photobucket seems to run the roost.
 
haruhiko said:
I don't think iPhone users are generally more tech savvy than Android users.
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I agree. On the contrary if anything. When I look at those people I meet and talk with, the tech savvy in general likes to tinker and fiddle with settings and customize like crazy to squeeze out more performance/options/whatever, and in these respect Android is a bit more obvious choice. Those going for the iPhone, are people who want a mass of functionality out of the box and can appreciate not having the option to tinker and fiddle, while happily accepting the base amount of performance/options/whatever (or those simply going for the little Apple-logo on the back, to indicate style/taste/what-ever).
 
Doctor Q said:
Given the convenience and quality of my iPhone 4 camera, I've stopped carrying my Canon still camera around with me when I'm out and about on weekend adventures. Only when I'm on a real out-of-town vacation, usually to see and photograph scenery, do I lug the "big" camera along.
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I agree with you on the "out and about" part. The iPhone 4 takes absolutely stellar pictures when used outdoors.

Indoors, however, it's such a huge disappointment, particularly under fluorescent lighting. The blue-green splotch ruins all pictures. And, according to the folks at the Ginza Apple Store Genius Bar, the blue-green splotch is present in ALL iPhone 4 cameras. (Not sure if this is true, but that's what they told me when I tried to get them to switch my iPhone 4 out for one whose camera didn't have this problem.)

I played around with some iPhone 4s cameras at a local Softbank shop, and that model seems to have corrected the blue-green splotch problem. Wish I had the dough to upgrade!
 
boegh said:
I agree. On the contrary if anything. When I look at those people I meet and talk with, the tech savvy in general likes to tinker and fiddle with settings and customize like crazy to squeeze out more performance/options/whatever, and in these respect Android is a bit more obvious choice. Those going for the iPhone, are people who want a mass of functionality out of the box and can appreciate not having the option to tinker and fiddle, while happily accepting the base amount of performance/options/whatever (or those simply going for the little Apple-logo on the back, to indicate style/taste/what-ever).
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I think that is true for the majority of iPhone users AND android users. Techies with an ideological commitment to open source or just a desire to fiddle with the OS will probably go android, but I bet a large slab of android users, if not a majority, just bought on price, and heck, quite a few might even think they have an iPhone.
 
entropys said:
I think that is true for the majority of iPhone users AND android users. Techies with an ideological commitment to open source or just a desire to fiddle with the OS will probably go android, but I bet a large slab of android users, if not a majority, just bought on price, and heck, quite a few might even think they have an iPhone.
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Yep, Android web usage is low, Android camera usage is low, Android marketplace sales are low and Android tablet sales are low. All points to the success of Android being about giving the OS away on cheap/free phones to people who actually aren't all that interested in the platform.
 
true story: one of my offsiders at work just bought himself a galaxy smartphone. The purchase decision was purely on price, as he gets the phone service and phone for AUD$29/month and zero up front compared with a 3GS at $39/month at zero upfront. He got me to show him how to close off 3G and 2G data connections, but allow wifi as he didn't want to threaten his download quota and have to pay excess fees(here in oz we might have better phone deals than you yanks, but data is capped).

needless to say his galaxy won't have much presence on flickr, web browsing stats etc.
 
entropys said:
He got me to show him how to close off 3G and 2G data connections, but allow wifi as he didn't want to threaten his download quota and have to pay excess fees(here in oz we might have better phone deals than you yanks, but data is capped).
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What's the point, then? Should have just bought some crappy LG flip phone.
 
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Originally Posted by funone0:
On the website the iPhone 4 is the number one and the iPhone 3G is number TWO, the iPhone 4S is 5th, sorry but were you drunk when you wrote this post? I mean anyone could have at least gotten it straight, maybe I should write stories for you.

PPFee said:
Damn man no need to be such a rude A$$ about it, even if you were right, which you are not and apparently cannot read a graph properly. Who's been drinking, hopefully you or are you just always a pompous jerk.
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funone0 = 0 fun for no one. Read before you open your big mouth.
 
boegh said:
I agree. On the contrary if anything. When I look at those people I meet and talk with, the tech savvy in general likes to tinker and fiddle with settings and customize like crazy to squeeze out more performance/options/whatever, and in these respect Android is a bit more obvious choice. Those going for the iPhone, are people who want a mass of functionality out of the box and can appreciate not having the option to tinker and fiddle, while happily accepting the base amount of performance/options/whatever (or those simply going for the little Apple-logo on the back, to indicate style/taste/what-ever).
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True. Given that Android allows more tinkering, the more tinkering-minded people go to Android. But that is not a huge percentage of people. There is a whole mass of Android people on the other side of the price spectrum who use those phones just like a feature phone and do not use many features at all. They may take photos but they tend to stay on the phone. There are more of such people with Android than iOS.
 
MultiMediaWill said:
To bad the quality is nothing compared to my T2i.
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And my 5D makes yours look like crap, but I don't carry my DSLR around with me in the mall do I?

Looking at the graph, it's interesting to see the lines where people upgrade. 3G people upgraded when the 4 came out, etc.
 
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