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There's a limit to the quality you can get using a 1/2.3" sensor. Add a 21x zoom lens and the upper limit is a lot lower. A lot of compromises there, though I can understand why Samsung went that way.
It just seems kind of clumsy to me. It's just as big as a pocket superzoom camera, except they've stripped it from the useful buttons and dials. I really wouldn't like the step backward to dealing with an auto P&S, doesn't matter how big the sensor or zoom range.
It is only one device, which is a good and bad thing. If you were already committed to carrying around a pocket superzoom around all the time it wouldn't hurt to merge them into one device. It's easy to see the negatives - this camera line hasn't seen an update since 2014, and Samsung stopped bothering to update it. It's stuck permanently on an obsolete version of Android. If you want a better phone or newer OS, you'll have to abandon the camera and switch to a regular smartphone of some kind. If I wanted this kind of camera, I'd probably just get a Canon PowerShot SX620 or similar and a phone. Stacked together in your pocket the size will be pretty similar.
I'm an Android user, but maybe Apple could do better, at least keep it running a newer version of the OS to keep it relevant.
I wouldn't mind an Android (6 or 7 mind you, not something ancient like Jelly Bean) phone with a 1" sensor and a fixed 13mm f/1.4-f/2 prime, something that didn't need to extend on power on. Even then, the ergonomics would probably annoy me and leave me wanting to use a standalone camera. Just a PIA to use for me.
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