Tien-Lin Chang
New member
The OP had mentioned his budget around 400$ (not sure it's USD or C$). I just checked ebay and new, unlocked HTC W8 is around 200~250USD - which sit comfortably inside OP's shooting range.
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I do agree ATIV S was a good phone - I also have one testing the newest w10m now. However it already shown it's age....the SoC and I/O performance is not seamlessly fast anymore. Plus the ATIV S was EOL long ago, there's almost impossible to get a new set and quite a chance there will be no future support - you are on your own (hack the way to get preview build) and Samsung seems not caring much.
However Samsung did leave a good base of this phone's camera - It reads out the most accurate (compared to me DSLR) auto exposure value through light meter app than my iPhone 6 plus (what an amazing result!) and the old 8mp camera kills the new 13mp camera from infocus M535.
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I do agree ATIV S was a good phone - I also have one testing the newest w10m now. However it already shown it's age....the SoC and I/O performance is not seamlessly fast anymore. Plus the ATIV S was EOL long ago, there's almost impossible to get a new set and quite a chance there will be no future support - you are on your own (hack the way to get preview build) and Samsung seems not caring much.
However Samsung did leave a good base of this phone's camera - It reads out the most accurate (compared to me DSLR) auto exposure value through light meter app than my iPhone 6 plus (what an amazing result!) and the old 8mp camera kills the new 13mp camera from infocus M535.