[Sam]

It's so difficult to determine which smartphone camera is the best... Of course Samsung Galaxies and iPhones are usually touted as the top two with differences coming down to personal preference. There are so many setups... migapixels, aperture, the physical camera, the software. You cannot possibly know which camera is better by looking at the specs.

Presenting two tools:

https://www.dxomark.com/ - which do official reviews of a bunch of cameras (giving photo and video scores)
http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=1 - The photo quality comparison tool. Just select phones to compare and move the image around to see how well the picture is taken under controlled conditions (including low light, good light).

Thoughts? Any personal favourite smartphone cameras bar the main two?

[ken alto]

Nice tool. Its difficult to tell how good a phone camera is because many megapixels does not necessarily means a powerful camera. I think huawei phones have a decent camera with great features. Nokia too is back and the phones have great cameras. However, I think Samsung and I phones are a step ahead.

[peachpurple]

I like both Lenovo and Samsung built in cameras, high pixels and very accurate

[ken alto]

Most smart phones are featuring a dual camera setup enabling clear shots and overall better quality shots. It's interesting how fast smartphone camera technology is developing.

[wikifarmer]

I think Iphone 7 plus is the best camera smartphone ever, Just recently, one of my friends brought an iphone 7 plus, the phone is so intelligent, it focuses and captures every detail, it feels like the image is alive and the depth effects of the phone is incomparable and in addition to this, it comes in various modes.

[shamzblueworld]

Nice tools, would try to use them, though I don't own it but I think Oppo has excellent cameras, they usually have 16MP camera at least, both front and back.

[Husainkoliraskr]

I seen a camera cum mobile by Samsung what my friend was using. It was a camera with phone. Pictures quality was superb and itwas very handy.. i liked.

[kataomoi]

I think Samsung has always had the upperhand with smartphone cameras, but recently Apple is stepping up their game. I also heard the new Google Pixel smartphone takes pretty good pictures. I might actually switch over from Samsung to Pixel for that reason.

[germainebull]

I am using an LG phone. How do LG phones fare in this camera assessment?

[skysnap]

For me Xiaomi phones working good. They seems to have a good lens.