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Nexus 4 – A Smartphone With Elegant Design (Part 5)

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We admit for always setting highest expectation to the Nexus devices – each device always carries a burden which is the newest high-class Android phone, and they are put forth by Google as an example for other Android manufacturers. That’s the reason we are incredibly disappointed about the decision of Samsung last year, which included a 5MP sensor in Galaxy Nexus. A year later, LG has ensured to mount the 8MP camera onto Nexus 4. On the spec sheet, it’s not the best thing on the market – but you should remember, the MP number never tells you the whole story. However, before we go too far, let’s discuss about the sure interface in the camera app. Though you have used the Android devices before, UI of Nexus 4 can make you confuse at first. It’s very basic at a glance, only including a viewfinder and a sidebar with shutter button, settings button and the switch for camera modes. When choosing settings (that can also be selected by holding the viewfinder), you will be presented a large circle with many options arranging outside of it. Just need to drag the finger to each option and you will be shown more options; you can also pinch-to-zoom 4-fold on the viewfinder. You can also be panic-stricken by the lack of thumbnail of gallery, but don’t panic – just need to swipe to the right and your gallery will pop up, one gesture identical to iOS or Windows Phone, which allows you to swipe to the right to have the same result. Exposure and focus lock are also available by hitting and holding the screen. We wish we can say that the camera of Nexus 4 is beautified with every decoration (let’s think about the settings list you have on Galaxy S III), but the selection is pretty limited here: HDR is now naturally supported, and you can also adjust white balance, choose one out of 4 scene mode and change resolution as well as flash settings. Panorama mode also reappears. That’s all. If you want any other smart filter for Nexus, you may want to start checking to see what options are available on Play Store – luckily, there are plenty to choose.

It’s very basic at a glance, only including a viewfinder and a sidebar with shutter button, settings button and the switch for camera modes

It’s very basic at a glance, only including a viewfinder and a sidebar with shutter button, settings button and the switch for camera modes

There’s another skillful camera mode that you can take advantages with Android 4.2, that’s Photo Sphere. You can call it a type of “Panoramic Mode 2.0” – instead of taking photos horizontally, you can add another dimension by shooting vertically. Then, after a 1 or 2 minutes combining, your photo is ready to view and it appears with the curvature as a natural sphere; when looking at the last product, you will have the feeling that you’re actually looking from the left to the right as if you were actually there – normally you need to scroll around the whole images to view all, which increase the impressed depth for our landscape photos. With an even better feature, the phone can carry out the scrolling for you so that you can sit and enjoy the scenery. There’s one complaint: we realize that the phone has some problem when combining the images together. In a photo, the right half of a window is noticeably higher (and there’s more reasonable exposure) than the left half, a frame looks as if it’s sawed into half and one side of the bookshelf has more exposure than the other side. This problem mainly relates more to firmware, because we have realized the same problems on Nexus 10 made by Samsung. We hope to see this thing solved in a 4.2.x future update. Now let’s turn attention out of the software and step into the camera performance section. As mentioned before, the newest Nexus is not what we call an “extreme” in photography field, so does this year’s model have any difference? The answer is yes – in a good manner.

There’s another skillful camera mode that you can take advantages with Android 4.2, that’s Photo Sphere

There’s another skillful camera mode that you can take advantages with Android 4.2, that’s Photo Sphere

We have performed some benchmarks with Nexus 4 and Galaxy S III, one of the best 8MP portable cameras we used to feel interested when using. There’re some fields that Nexus 4 defeat GS3, and in other fields it’s still good, but falls behind the Samsung rival. Nexus seems better in close-up shots and when zooming at full volume. We also prefer HDR on Nexus. However, colors seem to be more naturally saturated on GS3, and the sky shows more realistic blue. The LED flash on Nexus is very bright – in fact, it’s almost too bright. This is a rare problem on smartphone, but many shots taken with flash are washed out. If comparing, flash of GS3 is more faded, but at least we can see all colors in the way they’re supposed to be. In general, the lowlight performance is easily acceptable on Nexus, but we see a lot of noise and less light than GS3.

In general, the lowlight performance is easily acceptable on Nexus, but we see a lot of noise and less light than GS3.

In general, the lowlight performance is easily acceptable on Nexus, but we see a lot of noise and less light than GS3.

Finally, the shooting speed seems to be different, depending on which it needs to focus before the images is taken, but it still appears less than 2 seconds in most time. There are several times our theme is washed-out because they move before we can be able to finish shooting.

Images taken with Nexus 4 camera

Images taken with Nexus 4 camera

In general, it’s not the best performer among the peers, but the camera is still a precious asset for Nexus 4, while it’s a loss for the predecessor of this phone. And that’s exactly what we’re expecting to see. While we always love to have the best performance if possible, we’re very “picky” in that respect – it’s good to see a lot of love and attention for this aspect of the Nexus family.

In general, it’s not the best performer among the peers, but the camera is still a precious asset for Nexus 4

In general, it’s not the best performer among the peers, but the camera is still a precious asset for Nexus 4

Camcorder can record 1,080p films in MPEG-4 format, and record films with an average of 22fps with the bit speed of 9Mbps. This leads to the noisy, quite choppy videos that don’t actually convince us that what we’re watching is the true HD quality. A positive notification is that you can be able to shoot at the same time of recording videos, pretty similar to what you can do on Galaxy Nexus.

Camcorder can record 1,080p films in MPEG-4 format

Camcorder can record 1,080p films in MPEG-4 format

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