This is a second part of the review today, highlighting a rather disastrous discovery.

It was sunny late evening yesterday, so I decided to go take some photos. Panoramic are my favourite type of photo so I took several of these. I had a brief look on the phone, and the panoramic shots looked rather grainy.

Anyway, once back home, I connected via USB the S4 Zoom to my PC. It showed there was 800 photos to import. I had only taken 50 so something was wrong here. Basically all the thumbnails were being picked up, including dropbox. And then it took 20 mins to import the photos and the speed was painfully slow.

The panoramic photos had no resolution. They were 200kb in size. They should have been 30mb as a minimum. Another tech guru Steve Litchfield also tested his panoramic mode on his S4 Zoom and it had the same problem.

A phone call to Samsung, and a discussion with one of their camera experts, resetting and changing some other settings made no difference. Then I installed 5 top panoramic apps from Google Play and they also produced dreadful resolution.

Samsung recommended I returned the phone for a refund, as they could not guarantee whether it was software or hardware. Or whether it could be fixed by an update.

This is a camera first phone second device. It is possible that the S4 Zoom may just have a weakness for panoramic photos. It is disappointing though.