@Brian - well, got mine yesterday. And I live in germany, so japan is not the only country with those isolated incidents ;)

Actually it’s hard for me to see the “HDR” advantages when the picture tells me it isn’t HDR at all. High Dynamic Range pictures are ment to show both high and low details, resulting in a “grey sky”. I like the right side of the iPhone picture much more than the left, overblown photo (with no details in the light at…