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Best camera phones 2021

Sergey Sypalo Sypalo.com

page.title 2020-01-01 02 March 2021

With the release of new phones, processor speed is less and less important and manufacturers are fighting for the quality of cameras in the phone. Now, an average phone costing $200 is enough for the interface to work smoothly and most games are not lagging.

Xiaomi is slowly climbing up in the quality of photo/video shooting and goes into the status of an A-brand. But in order to reach as many buyers as possible, the Redmi line was separated into a separate sub-brand, where the main criterion is price / performance, but not the quality of the camera, i.e. the current Redmi is like Xiaomi in the past.

For those who want to save even more and do not pay attention to photo quality, there are Realme, Oppo and other as yet little-known brands.

But since this article belongs to the category of photos, I want to give a rating of the quality of cameras of one of the famous sites among photographers - DXOMark, and give some recommendations for choosing a phone:

Place Rating Model 5G Review Buy on Amazon
1 139 Huawei Mate 40 Pro+ Yes Review Buy
2 136 Huawei Mate 40 Pro Yes Review Buy
3 133 Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra Yes Review Buy
4 132 Huawei P40 Pro Yes Review Buy
5 131 Vivo X50 Pro+ Yes Review Buy
6 130 Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Yes Review Buy
7 128 Apple iPhone 12 Pro Yes Review Buy
Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro Yes Review Buy
8 126 Oppo Find X2 Pro Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
9 125 Honor 30 Pro+ Yes Review Buy
10 124 Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max No Review Buy
11 123 Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G Yes Review Buy
12 122 Apple iPhone 12 mini Yes Review Buy
Apple iPhone 12 Yes Review Buy
Honor V30 Pro Yes Review Buy
13 121 Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro No Review Buy
Huawei Mate 30 Pro No Review Buy
14 120 Samsung Galaxy Note20 (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
Google Pixel 5 Yes Review Buy
Xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Yes Review Buy
15 119 Apple iPhone 11 No Review Buy
16 118 Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro 5G Yes Review Buy
OnePlus 8 Pro Yes Review Buy
Samsung Glaxy S20+ (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
17 117 Motorola Edge+ Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (Snapdragon) Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ (Exynos) No Review Buy
18 116 Samsung Note 10+ 5G (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G (Exynos) Yes Review Buy
Huawei P30 Pro No Review Buy
19 115 Samsung Galaxy S20 FE (Exynos) No Review Buy
Oppo Reno 10x Zoom No Review Buy
Asus ZenFone 7 Pro Yes Review Buy
20 114 Vivo X51 5G Yes Review N/A
OnePlus 7T Pro No Review Buy
OnePlus 7 Pro No Review Buy
21 113 Google Pixel 4 No Review Buy
Honor 20 Pro No Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy S10+ No Review Buy
22 112 Sony Xperia 1 II Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy Note20 (Snapdragon) Yes Review Buy
Huawei P40 Yes Review Buy
Huawei Mate 20 Pro No Review Buy
23 111 OnePlus 8T Yes Review Buy
Sony Xperia 5 II Yes Review Buy
Google Pixel 4a Yes Review Buy
Huawei Mate 20 X Yes Review Buy
24 110 LG Wing Yes Review Buy
Xiaomi Mi 9 No Review Buy
25 109 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 Yes Review Buy
Huawei P20 Pro No Review Buy
26 108 Oppo Reno4 Pro 5G Yes Review Buy
OnePlus Nord Yes Review Buy
27 106 Apple iPhone XS Max No Review Buy
28 105 Oppo Find X2 Neo Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Yes Review Buy
29 104 Asus ZenFone 6 No Review Buy
30 103 Apple iPhone SE (2020) Yes Review Buy
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 No Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 No Review Buy
HTC U12+ No Review
31 102 Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro No Review
Google Pixel 3 No Review Buy
32 101 Google Pixel 3a No Review Buy
Apple iPhone XR No Review Buy
33 100 LG V60 ThinQ 5G Yes Review Buy
Samsung Galaxy S9+ No Review Buy

My opinion on the rating:

If you are a user of Apple products, then the choice is quite simple, take the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max if it suits you more in size and you need a top camera. If the phone is too big for your palm, or you didn't plan on spending a lot of money on a new phone, the Apple iPhone 12 is a good buy.

If you are an Android user, there are a few more options. First of all, it's worth deciding for yourself whether you will bother installing custom firmware on Huawei phones if Google services stop working on them. If so, then it is worth looking at 5G support, how important it is for you at the moment (depending on the region where you live, how often you travel and how often you update your phone).

There are a lot of Samsung phones in the rating, although in fact these are variants of S20 and Note 20, then everyone chooses for himself based on the budget.

The OnePlus is perhaps the go-to for those who like Apple's approach but prefer Android. Let me remind you that OnePlus releases two phones a year, one in the summer, the second, with minor improvements, in the fall and keep the current version of Android for a long time. In terms of performance and specs, these are some of the best Android phones out there.

I personally own a Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro (before that there was a Mi 9, and before that there was a Mi 6), and I am impressed with the growth in photo quality (the processor is, as always, a top-end one).

Huawei has two main lines, the top-end (in terms of camera) P-series, usually comes out in March-April, the top-end (in terms of processor) Mate series, which usually uses the same sensor as the P-series with some modifications. Well, Honor, which is actively promoting nowadays for youth, offers top-end equipment for a reasonable price for cheap and cheerful. The Huawei 2021 model has 50 in the name and, accordingly, 40 - the 2020 models and so on in descending order, which are also very well removed and can be bought at substantial discounts.

Oppo and Vivo are new "dark horses" with good photo quality, but I would honestly choose another better-known manufacturer so that in case of problems with the phone, there would be a better chance of finding a service center nearby.


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