12 best smartphones with a good camera and a powerful battery

With convincing talents of the chamber part, inexpensive smartphones of this brand are rather rare, the more pleasant is the exception to the rule for Xiaomi fans. It is only necessary to keep in mind that the main module of the Indian version of Redmi Note 5 (which is with the Pro prefix) is completed with a Sony IMX486 photosensor with a smaller pixel and a less high-aperture diaphragm. In principle, the phone can make very decent pictures even in stock condition. If you want to improve his abilities in terms of shooting video - it makes sense to do experiments with different firmware, alternative camera software and editing system files. For example, initially Redmi Note 5 does not allow to shoot in 4K, although technically it is ready to work in this mode. By the way, the electronic stabilization of the recommended smartphone is. As for the time spent on one charge - there are no unpleasant surprises.

Continues our ranking of the best budget smartphones with a good camera and a powerful battery Meizu M6 Note. This smartphone can also decently shoot with native software, but the transition from Meizu to the Qualcomm hardware platform (finally!) Allows the owner to use Google Camera with its chic HDR + mode. Recall that the corresponding post-processing algorithms give significantly more fine details in the image. Particularly pleased with the simplicity and legality of the procedure for obtaining root-rights for smartphones of this brand - simply register your device on the manufacturer's website and enter the password for the account in the security section. Please note, experiments with third-party camera software are really necessary in the case of the M6 ​​Note. For example, the stock application does not allow you to block the automatic change of the exposure when shooting a video, which is why flickering of the picture is possible. In addition to a good camera, the smartphone pleases with a powerful battery. The vitality of this model is impressive - up to 12 hours of the screen or 2-3 days in moderate mode. Fast charging supported.

After losing the title of the company's flagship, the Mi8 smart phone fell pleasantly in price and now represents a very good deal. Moreover, if in your creative plans there is also video filming, you should not be guided by the ninth model of this line. Finally, we should not forget that the Sony IMX363 sensor is used in the latest Google Pixel, and the American programmers literally “licked” the corresponding GCam. Of course, top-end camera phones from leading manufacturers of the Mi8 are generally inferior, but not at all critical. Wide dynamic range, correct color rendering, accurate white balance, optical stabilization - and all this is already in the middle price category. But with the duration of work on one battery charge, things are much worse. Actually, this is the very exception mentioned in the introduction - a smartphone with a good camera and a 3400 mAh battery.

Many experts consider this smartphone a big mistake for Xiaomi marketers, as far as its capabilities are clearly beyond the limits prescribed by the gaming device of the budget level. And first of all, just in terms of photo talents. Yes, optical stabilization is not involved in the main camera of the Pocophone F1 smartphone, although the Sony IMX363 sensor itself makes it possible to implement a 4-axis OIS scheme, but put it even in the newest Google Pixel 3. You understand, at least, an indicator of the potential of this module. On the other hand, the owners of F1, who love experimenting with all sorts of alternative software, have still not agreed on which GCam mod is better than stock software. In other words, it makes sense to use this smartphone "as is".

Under conditions of lack of light, the Poco's detail level drops and its sharpness decreases. On autonomy, let's say - the gaming phone just can not have a weak battery: the capacity of 4000 "moves", 10 hours of screen time with a moderate load, but the power consumption in the mode of telephone conversations is optimized poorly.

The first mass smartphone with a variable aperture. True, the Galaxy S9 + can only limit the lens's aperture ratio to f / 2.4 or raise it to f / 1.5 without intermediate values, but this trick allows you to minimize some unpleasant effects. For example, a drop in the detail in highlight areas due to overexposure. Unlike the simple S9, the “plus” is equipped with an additional camera with a long-focus lens and is able to scale the image without loss. Ostensibly lossless, to the extent that the optical zoom in low-light conditions is automatically replaced by electronic. Recall that a characteristic feature of Samsung smartphones is the aggressive operation of the digital noise suppression system. Naturally, with the erosion of parts of small parts.

As for autonomy, it all depends on the use case. In particular, with continuous video playback with half brightness and volume, the phone will last six hours.

Huawei's 2018 camera phone ranks sixth in the DxOMark ranking. A triple camera and an advanced self-learning artificial intelligence system based on a special neural unit helped the smartphone to succeed.At the presentation of the smartphone talked about hundreds of shooting scenarios with which the AI ​​can operate, as well as a couple of dozen categories of automatically recognized objects, but here there is a paradoxical situation. The camera phone is clearly focused on “professional” amateur photographers, and such helpers usually hinder them. In general, the talents of the P20 Pro really deserve a mass of enthusiastic epithets, but we will note some controversial points. Optical stabilization at the phone is only used for “telephoto”, and the leading and monochrome sensors (40 and 20 megapixels, respectively) are bypassed by program compensation methods. In an uncompressed format, only the first one (which is 40 MP) is ready to write a picture, but it is not always necessary. Finally, the zoom only works when shooting at 10 megapixels, which is considered the main one.

This phone attracts the attention of rather controversial reviews with regard to photo opportunities. The main camera of the Galaxy A50 uses the new Sony IMX576 middle class sensor, but its potential is openly limited by aggressive post-processing algorithms. The latest update (at the time of writing the review) has noticeably improved the situation, but still we recommend targeting this smartphone to those who are ready to regularly switch to manual mode and, with an understanding of the essence, stop controversial automation initiatives. Interestingly, scenes with backlight by the artificial intelligence of the camera phone are processed quite correctly. And before the owners of the Galaxy A50 will always be a difficult choice between a wide dynamic range and high detail. There is no consensus on autonomy. Judging by the results of tests on the gsmarena website, the smartphone is not the best way to consume battery power over the phone.

One of the first "leaky" smartphones on the Russian market. Of the other visible innovations, there is only a ToF sensor in it, which helps to accurately determine the depth of the scene and calculate the trajectory of objects when videoing to improve clarity. In a sense, View 20 is a no-nonsense smartphone, which is what fans of Honor brand like. Exclusively demanded functionality, without superzoom and super wide-angle module, but with an excellent 48-megapixel universal camera (able to shoot in RAW) and a good front-end. Special thanks to the developers of the model for the saved classic fingerprint scanner and mini-jack for wired headphones. It is a pity that the positioning of the line did not allow them to use wireless charging technology. However, View 20 has its own chip in the power supply system - a hardware implementation of the economy mode, which is much more efficient than a software control method.

Proudly ignoring the global trend regarding cuts of various shapes, Samsung was one of the first to implement the equally controversial idea of ​​a “leaky” screen. And she found it possible to integrate a dual front camera into the display of her flagship. We would not focus on this fact attention, but it is the growth of the quality of self-portraits and is the most notable achievement compared to the photo talents of the previous generation of the top line of Samsung. At least, many fans of the brand think so, changing smartphones as the latter is updated. Of course, the improvement of the camera part is not limited to the appearance of a cool front camera, but we consider the ability to better shoot with a two-time zoom in the dark as an actual change, as well as adding software chips caused by the neural processor. The battery capacity of the "dozens" has grown, and the power consumption of the hardware platform has decreased. So in terms of autonomy, it is definitely better than the ninth model.

It continues our ranking of the best smartphones with a good camera and a Google Pixel 2 XL battery.Recall that the model 2 XL is produced at LG's facilities, and Pixel 2 is “simply” assembled at HTC’s factories and it comes with a less capacious battery, and it also has a screen diagonal. The length of work on one charge does not impress both versions of the second Google Phone, but 88 hours of autonomy is better than 75 (GSMArena data). There are no double-triple cameras here and there is no trace, while the bokeh effect on the phone is no worse than that of competitors. As if not the other way around. Repeatedly mentioned by the Google Camera application, the device is endowed with nominally, i.e. HDR + mode, as well as all the “buns” of the latter are present, therefore, in backlit conditions and in low light, the recommended camera phone shoots very decently. But with other functionality, the Pixel 2 XL is not very bright: there is one SIM card, there is no 3.5 mm connector, wireless charging is not supported.