Best Camera Mobile Phones in India (July 2023)

The iPhone 14 Pro Max is arguably the best camera phone in the market at the moment. As the current leader of the camera phone pack, the iPhone 14 Pro Max boasts of some really impressive specifications and features that help its camera hardware shine. Fitted with three lenses which includes the all-new 48-megapixel primary wide angle lens that offers support for quad-pixel binning, the iPhone 14 can click some really detailed shots and promises excellent point and shoot performance for both photos and videos. What’s more impressive is that this remains true for not just shots clicked in well-lit scenarios, but also low light scenes as well.

While many still like to peddle the idea that higher megapixel count equals to better image taking capabiplities, it has been proven time and again that this notion is quite detached from reality. Despite phone manufacturers pushing for higher megapixel count lenses on their devices – with some current-gen flagships even touching the 200-megapixel mark – some of the best camera phones in the market still come sporting primary lenses that max out at around 50 megapixels. Case in point, the iPhone 14 Pro Max, Pixel 7 Pro, Xiaomi 13 Pro Max and the Vivo X90 Pro. All three phones mentioned above comfortably make it to the list of the best camera phones available right now, but flaunt primary lenses that max out around the 50 megapixel mark. But, then there are the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra which come with 200-megapixel lenses. Both again, very capable camera phones, that click very good photos and videos. So to put a conclusive number on the megapixel count would be unfair at the moment. However, what we would say is that while more megapixels will mean more detail captured by the hardware for processing, for the end user, more than the megapixel count, what’s more important is the accompanying photography algorithms found on the phone, and the size of the sensor used. These two, along with the focal length of the sensor and the aperture size, ultimately makes all the difference for modern-day point and shoot devices like smartphones.

Assuming we’re talking about flagships, the iPhone 14 Pro Max manages to win the race against Samsung’s current camera flaghip, the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Despite using a lesser megapixel lens for it’s primary camera. Thanks to an intelligent combination of using good hardware with even better software, the iPhone 14 Pro Max can click images which offer rich and vibrant colours but more importantly handling contrast better in most scenarios to ensure images look true to life. Videos also come out better on the iPhone 14 Pro Max with both the quality and stablisation better on the Apple phone.

While reports suggest Samsung is working on a 450-megapixel lens for smartphones, currently the highest megapixel count for a lens on a smartphone is 200. The Samsung ISOCELL HP2, is a currently found on a handful of flagship phones, including the Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra. It uses Samsung’s advanced pixel-binning technology, Tetra2pixel which enables users to click higher resolution images which pack in a lot of data within the frame. Its new pixel binning technique allows the lens to gather more light and detail, and this too without increasing the camera bumps in their devices.