Alcatel makes the lock screen its own with a row of shortcut icons along the bottom of the screen (including one for selfies) and shortcuts for the camera and dialer in the corners. So far so good, but using them isn't completely intuitive. You have to double-tap alerts and icons to open them. The first great smartphone of 2015. Beautiful and bold..with complications. The new no-compromise MacBook. A stellar on-ear headphone. Crave-worthy curves for a premium price. The Good The mega-affordable Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 has a large screen and takes nice outdoor photos. It wins bonus points for loud external speakers and a useful mode to use the OS upside-down as well as right-side-up.

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Given the specs of the two cameras, the photo results are unsurprising. Detail and artifacts both depend heavily on sensor size and resolution, and the S6 is bigger on both counts. On the other hand, the iPhone fares better when it comes to artifacts, a category that seems to lump in everything that's wrong with a photo except noise. I suspect that's partly because the S6's native shooting mode has an aspect ratio of 16:9 ("normal" photo aspect ratio is 4:3 or 3:2) and its lens really distorts toward the edges of that wide angle of view.

Of course, there are tons of tradeoffs that I see between the two just by looking at the samples in our three-way comparison among the Galaxy S6, HTC One M9 and iPhone 6, For instance, the S6 gets pale caucasian and olive skin tones better in daylight, but the iPhone does better under indoor lighting, I wish the S6 supported Android 5's latest camera API; then we'd be able to shoot raw and really see what the camera is capable of, Based on its latest mobile camera tests, camera-testing outfit DXO says the new candyshell iphone 5/se case for apple iphone 5, 5s and se - black/slate gray Samsung ekes out a higher score than Apple's former top-ranker..

Camera testing specialist DXO ran the new Samsung Galaxy S6's camera through its battery of tests and its results are in: the S6 has a better ability to resolve detail than the iPhone 6's camera, and its video is as good or better in almost every way. Except image stabilization, that is, where they're both awful. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion.