Galaxy Camera 2 users?

Can anyone share usage and photo quality comments for the Galaxy Camera 2? I see them at Best Buy and the huge screen is appealing. I can see the screen being very nice for my kids and them being able to show their photos to grandma and grandpa. Plus game playing potential with the Android operating system on some long road trips this summer. I am guessing one can dowload games. (it would be nice if they were not borrowing my iPhone 4S to be playing "Dress Taylor Swift" and the like.)

hi

i got the original one and  i use it more than my nx300

takes real good pics  most of the time

great for holidays and keeping up with emails and  ebay

cant comment on the new one though should be even better

get a few spare batteries that large screen  sucks the power

holiday   typical  day,  2 batteries needed some times a third

but there  fairly cheap   and charge in the car easy enough

videos good  can take pics while videoing

android so lots to do apart from pictures  i watched a few films on the plane

overall great camera really

A bit late chiming in here, but I really like my Camera 2.  The photo quality is frequently lacking (a lot of noise/artifacts), but I didn't buy it for submitting poster sized photos to photography contests -- I got it for posting better-than-smartphone pics to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., and for that it's perfect.  I can easily transfer photos to my Galaxy Note 2 phone or just turn my phone into a WiFi access point and then use the camera's built-in WiFi to directly post photos and videos.  It did not (and never will) replace my primary camera, but I frequently only take the Camera 2 depending on the event.  
The video mode is frankly superb for this type of camera.  I was also able to buy a inexpensive shotgun mic and got an iPad mic adapter cable so that I can plug the mic into the combo headphone jack on the Camera 2, put everything on a small flashbracket, and it makes a surprisingly nice 1080p video camera.  I especially like the quiet zoom feature while recording video.  It slows down the zoom to reduce the noise, so you don't end up with that amateur rapid zoom effect.  I know, I know...pros don't zoom in videos anyway, but the extent of my "pro level" videos is a YouTube channel, so it's all good.  Plus, zooming slow like this camera is capable of is not bad at all and looks really good.

The Android side of this camera is nice.  It's not the very latest version of the OS, but it just one version older, and the difference between the two versions is mostly cosmetic.  The hardware specs for using the Camera 2 as gaming device/mini-tablet are actually rather good.  It has a quad core 1.6GHz processor which is definitely no slouch, and 2 GB of RAM which is more than some of the models of Samsung tablets have.  It has 8MB of built-in storage, and can handle a 64GB microSD card perfectly (which are rather affordable right now).  I believe it can handle up to 128GB cards.  All that being said about storage, any games your kids put on there are going to go to the built-in 8GB of storage, so although that can hold quite a few games, it's not endless storage like a phone or tablet with 32, 64, or even 128GB of built-in storage.

Frankly, if I had to choose whether or not to give my kids the Camera 2 or an iPhone 4 to play games on, I'd toss them the iPhone 4 every time.

Great to see some user experiences on this camera.

I'm thinking of picking this up for my wife. She's an iPhone user, but her old 4s is dying a slow death. She wants an iPhone 6 eventually, but the phone is arranged through work, and navigating between personal and work contracts for the phone is a pain.

So, I figured this might be an acceptable compromise. Like others have said, this camera wouldn't be for poster quality images, but for snapping quick photos and then posting to FB or emailing quickly to family.

However, has anybody compared it to the Nikon Coolpix s810c? That's the other compact using Android, but I guess neither are widely used. I've read that the Nikon has better image quality, but that the Samsung is more amenable to social media. The larger screen is a plus, and my wife does not like particularly small, finicky cameras.

Just FYI, the Galaxy Camera 2 was listed as the #1 selling point-n-shoot camera for a few recent weeks on Amazon.com.  So apparently, it's more popular than any of us thought.  Haha.

I think this is just one of those techie-ish gadgets that a lot of non-techie types buy, so you'll never see them posting on photography forums or Android (XDA) forums, etc.  But they're out there.  When I was at Universal Studios theme park over the Thanksgiving holiday I saw probably around 1/2 dozen people shooting pics with the Galaxy Camera 2.