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Picture Comparison: Samsung Galaxy S2 x S3 x Xperia Z x Nokia E51 x E90 x Pureview 808

Vintage smartphones arranged for comparison

Just a collection of pictures taken +- at the same time (10min difference between first and last) from a few cellphones I have with me at the moment:

Nokia E51, the more modest from the team, with its Fixed Focus 2mp camera, phone from 2008:
Nokia E51

Nokia E90, the “top of the range” most expensive phone I have ever had, probably most expensive Symbian ever released, in 2007… Auto-focus camera with 3.1Mp:
Nokia E90 Pic

The latest and last Symbian ever released, in 2012, the Nokia 808 Pureview has a 41mp sensor, but this picture is in “8Mp Pureview” mode:
Pureview 808 Pic

Here one sample from a Samsung Galaxy S2 running the latest CyanogenMod 10.1, using CameraZoomFX as câmera software:
S2 Pic

And my previous device, a Galaxy S3, also running the latest CM 10.1, also using CameraZoom FX:
Xperia Z Pic

This is my new phone, an Xperia Z, *ALSO* running the latest CM 10.1, ALSO using CameraZoom FX as câmera software (I just like it too much).
S3 Pic

Pictures taken @ 09:10, all of them from the same spot, pointing to +- the same area below, trying to catch some of the sky above.

For the full size pictures, just click on them.

A user from PalmForum asked me to test HDR, so I did… and I hated it. Tests on the Xperia Z:

Picture taken with the HDR function *ON*:
HDR On

Same place, HDR *OFF*:
HDR Off

Now from the Balcony, for some reason the HDR function saved two pictures, both crap. Here’s the first one with HDR ON:
HDR On 1

And the second one, HDR also ON:
HDR On 2

And this picture was taken seconds after, with HDR function off:
HDR Off

All of these were shot with the Stock Cam program on CyanogenMod 10.1, Nightly Build from 30/04/2013, for the Xperia Z.