PuckCowboy
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You can purchase wireless charging inserts on Amazon for the Galaxy S4 and they should work with the ATIV SE. I don't know if Samsung will release an official wireless charging back cover for the ATIV (probably not), so this is a plan b option. I have used them on other Samsung phones and they work fine without making the phone thicker.
You can peruse Samsung Galaxy S4 youtube videos about the camera and video as the ATIV SE has the same 13MP camera and flash as the S4. I won't repost pictures because there are a multitude of example videos already posted to youtube or in the forums. From my experience the ATIV SE photos taken outdoors look slightly better than the Icon to me, but I am not a photographer. Low light pictures go to the Icon but not by much. You will of course have more picture controls and settings on the Icon, but if you are just looking to take quick, auto setting photos the ATIV SE camera is not bad at all. It is also the same camera that is on the Galaxy Note 3, without the 4K video recording capability. There are plenty of picture and video samples from the Note 3 on YouTube as well. The bottom line with the ATIV is that you can add a 64GB microSD card to save pictures to so you don't have to worry about messing with cloud storage.
Thanks for all the info TechGeek32! (32 is my hockey number by the way!) Per your suggestion, I did a look up of the YouTube video comparing the S4 and Icon and you are right, the Photos and Videos looked similar, although low light was slightly better. They did mention though call quality was much better for the Icon. This is very important to me, so maybe they improved this with the ATIV SE.
I'm also not somebody concerned with the looks of the phone, but more so how comfortable it is to hold, and the rounded corners and lighter weight of the ATIV SE are definitely making me lean that direction.
So what is your final decision? Are you going with ATIV SE or sticking with Icon? Inquiring minds want to know...