i5 has me choosing it as the current smartphone camera king.
Its actually quite far from it...
Its consistency in daylight photographs is equally matched with its inconsistency at night time...
ya the 808 is amazing, it's almost not fair..haha
Its not.
Just from a hardware perspective, the sensor and the optics on the 808 alone are thicker than the gs3/ip5/920, there is one extra GPU which is built into the camera module itself with one single purpose.. image processing, you have a Xenon flash with not one, but two capacitors, and we have a mechanical shutter. So just from that perspective alone.. nothing else on the market has the "means" to even compete.
Then we have all the work Nokia did on the software side to make it all function properly...
If you think about in terms of size vs. image quality ratio, the 808 is the only device (smartphone or a dedicated camera) that can offer you that kind of quality from such a compact system.. non of the P&S even come close from that perspective. Its a pretty substantial engineering breakthrough... one of those that don't come along very often in the mobile phone industry.
If any other company had this technology at their disposal, they would have proclaimed themselves as the best imaging company in the world, there will be a VAST marketing campaign behind it, and they will be trying their best to sell it. Nokia is doing the exact opposite... just because everything else is going so well for them I guess...
Like..if Apple had it.. they will parade around the globe, and within 2 years they will crush the point and shoot market..