So if the new Camera Control were simply another button -- even if better positioned when holding the phone in its wide orientation -- it would have felt like a letdown.

Photo: Oleksii Karamanov / Tetra images via Getty Images Smartphones have become quite capable, compact cameras that offer a lot of convenience. After all, most of us rarely go without our ...

In 2024, both pro phone cameras have feature parity. They have identical setups, unlike with the iPhone 15 Pro that lacked the 5X zoom the iPhone 15 Pro Max had.. There is a 48MP ultra wide lens ...

Apple, for example, markets the base-model iPhone 16 as having a 4x optical zoom range thanks to an inner crop on its main camera and the 0.5x “magnification” offered by the ultra-wide camera.

That’s why most modern flagship phones (and some mid-range and budget models) have multiple cameras, each with its own lens to enable ultra-wide, telephoto, or macro photography.

Best Phone Cameras. There are lots of great phones on the market, ... (48 megapixels or more) and delivers standard shots, while the others work as zooms or wide-angle lenses.

All three Pixel 9 phones have two starter cameras on the back: a 50 MP wide-angle and a 48 MP ultrawide. The Pixel 9 Pro and XL tout a third camera, a 48 MP 5x telephoto that zooms up to 10x at ...

We've tested dozens of phones over the past year and snapped over 10,000 photos and videos in the process. These are the best camera phones that deserve a spot in your pocket.