[One (M8) Original Android Development] CutGlass:
I always install open_gapps but I will try a clean install on my dev phone for comparison. Also low light testing last night revealed some very odd results so I want to repeat. I've also read some other reviews of the camera an in some cases the reviewers are not very experienced in spot/ partial metering in one case on cnet the camera was hammered because the reviewer stated "I placed the focusing zone the same place as the other cameras" in that case it was under a dark bridge so it would blow the highlights in the sky. A really relevant thing to note is that the google app is not full frame because of the bottom nav bar covers a bit so you'll likely end up with a picture needing a slight crop which at 4 megapixels is not good.

Some people may question how I can claim to be a linux dev and former professional photojournalist. I graduated from university, in the holidays before taking an exchange program position at MIT to get my professorship I fractured my spine, this left bone fragments in the spinal canal and damage to the nerve roots. 13 months later after being stuck in the same rooms I had become determined not to be stuck in an office, lab or lecture hall so took a darkroom job for £7k GBP a year. In six months I was darkroom technician of the year and young regional photojournalist, in two years I was working for Sygma (obviously before it’s destruction by Corbis and after Salgado had left). But the science part of my brain never stopped, I had difficultly sleeping so I taught myself Linux using a dial up connection.

An incident on assignment and a chance encounter and I got contracts for image conversion for catalogues companies wanting big, medium, large photos for their website and I’d written some software as I was primarily interested in photo libraries and the dial-up download speed/ image quality balance. I used to bounce between Linux and “holidaying” covering famine, disease and natural disasters. My disability got too much and I retired from photography, but not before entering the World Press Photo 1999, I got my accreditation a year and a bit after entry and then the book came free for entrants in the post (I wasn't a winner). Below is a picture of my old invalid driving licence and my name from the book's index of entrants, even though I’d stopped taking pictures full-time by Jan 1997. I eventually ended up working cybersecurity at the highest level in the UK while doing small business shopping websites (absolutely true, I like variety) before the medication side effects meant I couldn’t be relied on to be fit enough to do the job.

Attached is photo of my invalid driving licence (different address, expired etc) and the list of photographers who entered the WPP 1999, and above the right corner you'll see my name. In the top left corner is the title competitors list. After all this is the web and you shouldn't believe everything you read or claims people make. (not taken on the HTC I wanted to be sure of the resolution of the small text).

After I repeat the tests tonight to confirm what I think is happening, I'll have a definite answer. But I have been pondering whether an M8 could be used professionally. I believe yes in the majority of conditions with caveats as to how the image was to be used. I took a picture 14 years ago of an umbilical cord and afterbirth in a surgical dish, (my son's birth), on a 6 Megapixel D100 and that image in a picture library sold for over five years to midwife, obstetrics, gyneacological publications. Also as mentioned with the odd concept or prototype cars I photograph for fun (I like the chase and guesswork), any publication will take a poor quality image of "news" if they have nothing else. At the moment I would say, HTC camera App, Google Photos App for image adjustment if the photo need to be sent immediately (but beware there does not appear to be a save a copy function so you are working on the original).