That's not completely true, the average consumer making decision with out actually knowing anything else about a camera like the lens, or the image processor, it came to be know as the Megapixel race and still kind of seen today, but the Megapixel count is just the resolution it's the resolution at the image that the sensor takes and 8 Megapixel camera sensor will take a 3264x2448 image which is significantly larger than anything that our computer monitors can show natively, usually our best computer monitors can show 5 Megapixel image natively, so you'll only be able to tell the difference between an 8 Megapixel and a 12 Megapixel image is if you do some zoom or croping or printing it on a really large paper..
HTC decided to take a risk and not get involved in the Megapixel race, instead develop their own technology until last year smartphone sensors and cameras have stayed the same size but manufacturers have been cramming more and more pixels to those, so we have seen it to go from 4MP to 8MP to 20 and higher and as you cram more and more pixels on the same size of sensor the pixels get significantly smaller and smaller which means you get less and less light per pixel when you get less light in image or less light per pixel you can see more noise and worse low light performance..
That's where HTC decided to switch things up and cram far less pixels on to the sensor, they used a 4MP sensor and yes there are far less pixels but those pixels are a lot bigger which means you'll get more light and you'll get better low light performance so the HTC One is outfitted with a 4MP camera it's take 4 MP photos which are very small comparatively but these are huge pixels which is where the Ultrapixel name comes from and since it's only a 4MP sensor HTC has decided not to even talk about the resolution count and completely change it over with Ultrapixels to mask that embarrassingly low MP count..So what's the difference in 4 Megapixel and 4 Ultrapixel camera, well nothing really we haven't seen anything that HTC said that's has confirmed any sort of difference in Ultrapixels, i mean they like to talk a lot about their technology but as far as we know may be smart phone sensors have gotten a tiny bit bigger as we have larger phone sizes so we get more room for the internals but really the individual pixel size has remained pretty small..
But the HTC on while it has the lowest Megapixels count or any smart phone today it's does have by far the largest pixels than any other high-end smartphone..
Photos that it takes in regular light are pretty average there might not be not be a whole lot of dynamic range but the photos are pretty good but they are not as sharp as 8 or 13MP camera in low light it performs amazing but it can compete with Nokia Lumia 920 which has a massive sensor so it's a high resolution and slightly larger pixels.. These are really high-end cameras with really high-end low light images..
ON the video side of things 4MP is still significantly more than 1920x1080 so there is no sharpness problem with video but again dynamic range and color reproduction could be a little better.. so there is no problem being a 4MP sensor and that's a good sign for camera technology...
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