IPhone color and photo quality

Does the color of the iPhone (gold vs black) affect the image quality of photos? I read somewhere else that the gold color might reflect more light on a sunny day than would a black iPhone, thereby reducing the image quality of the photos taken. Does that make sense?
Thank you for your assistance.

You are not alone. I actually returned my iPhone 6 after only a day because I was so, so disappointed in the camera. Blacks and darker colors are very muted compared with the crisp contrast offered by the 5 / 5s. But by far the noise reduction is the absolute worst. Apple is overprocessing in this respect and users have no way to opt out. I can't even believe how bad some of these images look. Here are a few of my own and then a few from around the web.
Side by side iPhone 5 versus 6. The watercolor affect from aggressive noise reduction is unbelievable. Not to mention unusable.
Again, same side by side comparison - shot with the 5 on the left, 6 on the right. Horrible!
Screenshots from a very large image I found elsewhere - too large to post here, but wanted to show real-size at 100% zoom. The entire image looks as if it's been painted. Look at the insanely bad detail in the trees:
And then I found this on twitter - perhaps the best example of all. Guy took a photo at concert from 50' away. Obviously challenging conditions - low light, distance, etc. I think we'd all expect a fair amount of grain and be fine with it. But what he didn't expect was the insane alien hand the guitarist ended up with due to - again - the heavy-handed noise reduction.
Why has Apple decided to force us all into this aesthetic? No doubt non-discerning users will not notice either way but for those of us who love / rely on our phones for crisp, high quality photos at all times - WHY did they do this?

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