Never have I been more disappointed by a camera on a phone ever. Foliage looks terrible, 48mp photos during the day aren’t any more detailed than the 12mp photos on my S8 while having strange artifacts, lens smearing, and terrible video outdoors and in very dark scenes (indoors in semi-ideal conditions is the only time it’s good). The 12mp photos should be the go-to but they’re a disaster, 8mp level of detail. And you can sort of fix this by turning off noise reduction but this phone is not designed for custom camera apps in mind so camera2api support is limited. Why does samsung solely give quality control checks on their flagships only? Do they truly believe people can’t just buy second hand phones from the used market and get the same level of quality control?
You buy a piss-budget phone and you expect it to be good? Then why do they make flagships?
Why would they make a phone worse than a 6 year old one?
You need to get a few things straight. When you buy a phone, you don’t buy just the hardware of it, the camera is one of the many sensors. You primarily buy software support. If companies supported their phones indefinitely we would stay with our old phones until they stopped working but no. You wanted Android 13 & 14 and their new features because Android 9 wasn’t cutting it any longer. In addition you got security patches that is why you got a new phone, stop pretending that you didn’t know that in the first place. It will take more than 5 years for a midrange phone to catch up to a flagship specs-wise but that doesn’t mean that an old phone is better or secure to use.
What was the launch price of the S8?
What was the launch price of the A33?What are the prices for each now?
That doesn’t make any difference. It’s still the cost of the parts that contributes to the quality
I still paid 250 euros for it, and parts are the same price for each phone
Then you should have paid for an unsupported S8 instead then.
To answer you (which OP doesn’t):
S8 - 750 dollars
A33 - 250 dollars
Its cheap budget phone. What do you expect.
A33 isn’t even focused on the cameras. A5X is where the cameras get good. S8 was a well-rounded flagship, which is something the A34 isn’t
The camera is not the problem it uses the venerable 48mp module used by other OEMs that have better IQ than the A33. The problem is processing power, or the lack of it.
buys a budget phone
complains about bad camera
What did you expect?
Your post is just funny 😂
“Hm I wonder why a Galaxy A3X phone has a terrible camera (Btw it is their 4th cheapest phone in their lineup)”
It’s a budget phone. S8 was great for its time before AI and stuff.
In some conditions it could take decent images but yes, at the end of the day it’s still a budget phone that can’t take photos like other mainstream or high-end phones.
For that, can’t blame them. For not making S23 series more “natural” and improving their quality, yes. That’s just the way that companies work these days.
Why a cheap phone has cheap camera, why?