Poll of The Week: How many rear cameras are enough?

Let’s travel back in time to early 2011 when the first phone with a dual-camera, the HTC Evo 3D, was announced. It had two 5MP cameras and the reason for the extra camera was so owners could use both cameras to capture stereoscopic 3D images to view on its 3D screen.

It has been eight years now and the highest number of rear cameras on a smartphone is now six and that record is held by the Nokia 9 PureView which has five 12MP cameras and a ToF 3D camera. This week one of the most anticipated phones will launch in China and its selling point is its cameras. This device is the Mi CC9 Pro and it will launch with five rear cameras which includes a telephoto camera, a portrait camera, an ultrawide camera, and a 108MP primary rear camera which is the highest resolution camera on a commercially available phone.

Five cameras is sure a lot of cameras to have on a device and it may become a trend seeing as quad-rear cameras were pretty popular this year. So, for this week’s poll, we are asking our readers “How many rear cameras are enough?”

Do take the poll and we will appreciate it if you shared your opinion about the phone industry’s craze with multiple cameras.

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