If you own the HTC One or Samsung S4, Google has released via their US store only both these phones but in pure Google android. This means no sense or touchwiz. What this also means is that hackers extract various parts so you can install them on your normal devices. And that’s what I did. I installed the new live wallpaper sunbeam. This looks rather good. But what was of real interest was the Google Play editions camera app and gallery app. Would the camera app take better photos than the HTC app. The answer is no it doesn’t. Below are 4 photos taken around 7pm. In both shots the HTC camera app does a much better job. For the record I am running the new 4.2.2 update on my HTC One.

The above was taken with the HTC camera app and below with the Google app.

Same again. First HTC and then Google app.

So do you agree the HTC Camera app does a better job?

Photos taken of Tavistock High Street, Devon.