the thing with someone making better camera tech then say the nokia 1020 and nokia 808 is in fact going to be very very hard without someone stepping on nokias toes as I cant remember the specific amount of patents surrounding the 808s tech but it was quite a few and nokia wasn't silly and put patents all over that ;-)
it would be interesting too see a device like the s5 with the camera of the 1020 but I am hoping the next 1020 will be like that anyways ...... as for windows I quite like it ...... I was getting drain on 8.1 no matter what I did but I hope with cyan and some bug fixes and app updates it will be much better ;-)
other manufacturers could step up I mentioned this in another thread ...... can you imagine the recently announced kzoom tweaked a bit ...... if Samsung got rid of the massive zoom lens and kept the thickness of the device I reckon they could almost get a rx100 type 1" sensor in there and a decent fast prime lens with no zoom ...... they could use the 1" sensor with some quality glass and fast bright prime lens with high mega pixel count for oversampling and zoom later like nokia do ...... they could call it the kzoom prime and its not like Samsung don't like having lots of options ...... now that would really make nokia and Microsoft step up their game
although the kzoom wont match the 1020/808 in quality and pureness it was good too see Samsung go against the gran and design a device that fitted the internals they wanted ....... ie they knew it was a camera centric phone and wanted zoom so they made it a bit thicker ...... nokia done the opposite ...... with the 1020 they knew they were building a camera phone yet gave into the need for a slim design ...... they made the sensor smaller then the 808 , removed nd filter , took away wireless charging , made the xenon flash smaller then the 808s , left the battery at 2000mah even though they knew the cpu would be taxed to the max when shooting photos ,...... it would be good too see nokia make 1 flagship like Samsung do with the s5 etc , then release a camera centric version so they aren't constrained by todays design language for flagship phones ;-)
as it is I love the pureview tech from the 808 and 1020 , it offers great quality and pureness , a very versatile camera in all conditions and the operating system is getting better and better so I don't think I would swap as long as nokia and Microsoft keep up the good work they have been doing so far but I do want to see a true 1020 successor and not a watered down version ;-)
to be honest ive had enough of flashing kernels , roms , finding apps that are draining battery with android and its nice to have a fresh funky o/s that's fast and fluid and has some options to make it your own and having a great camera with an xenon flash is the icing on the cake ;-)