The iPhone doesn't have the 5 minute 4K video limit that Android phones have, and that's huge.

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet. The Android phones (G3, S5, S6, Nexus) all are constrained to a 5 minute limit for recording in 4K. I can't find any solid facts on why, but people are speculating that it's due to them not having a hardware encoder, so it's done with software and is causing overheating. I can confirm, because on my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+, when I record in 4K, it shows <elapsed> / 5:00.

But the iPhone? I recorded a 37 minute 4K video a couple days ago with zero issues.

And before anyone states that 4K is stupid, I agree. But there's still a good reason to record in 4K: to downsample to 1080p. 4K downsampled to 1080p will look significantly better than video that was recorded IN 1080p to begin with. That's a big deal for youtubers, bloggers, etc who can't afford an expensive camera. Also, the 6s 4K video downsampled to 1080p looks better than a lot of DSLR's 1080p videos. Proof? http://ift.tt/1FGPg1j

Submitted October 01, 2015 at 03:52AM by 5kyl3r http://ift.tt/1LQjJv5