Comparison between the iPhone 5 with camera phones is really the better one?

In this "camera phone" of the era, the smartphone's camera performance is always the focus of attention of most people, but also to meet the ordinary demands of everyday key points. Gizmodo recently conducted a horizontal comparison on the investigated Apple iPhone 5 with the previous generation iPhone 4S flagship model and several other big differences, including the Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X, there is an astonishing 41 million pixel Nokia 808 PureView, to see if it has much improved camera performance in the end, as well as whether the competition with rivals also can stand out.
Given Apple also said, iPhone 5 "could become a high image quality shoot cameras substitute", which once drew the Canon's entry-level card machine S100, to see whether it is really necessary to abandon the small camera.

Design and Performance

For many people want to have the iPhone 5, the consistently excellent camera features is a major reason to attract them. Compare iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 still use the back-illuminated 8-megapixel sensor and F2.4 aperture lens, but instead a sapphire lens, this is often overlooked by people.
iOS 6 in the biggest change to the iPhone camera panorama mode is to add a shot, but otherwise, there is no camera interface changes, as always, simple, or rather monotonous. This point, several other products to be far better camera, possesses greater customization - you can set the manual mode, burst mode or some other scene modes.
iPhone nothing modes are available, in addition to HDR mode, flash, and grid lines can click other buttons, only the shutter and self-timer switched. If the relative picture repair or processing, only in the shooting using third-party tools.
iPhone 5's automatic shooting mode is more fool, indeed to bring a lot of convenience white users, but this can also manually adjust the parameters of the model so that it looks in the dark photo quality compromised. In contrast, other equipment in low light can be set to use its own by adjusting shooting parameters allows us to improve the quality of the photos, to minimize noise and avoid distortion.
In addition, compared to the iPhone 4S A5 processor, iPhone 5 equipped with the A6 processor performance has been greatly improved, which makes the camera focus and shutter speed becomes faster. You can also use the volume buttons as a shutter, but the iPhone 5's camera is still not upgraded to the automatic sequence mode, you still need to manually press the shutter for shooting many times.