DxOMark has been existing for over a decade but it came into light after the company started reviewing smartphone cameras. The original Google Pixel was one of the first phones to be advertised with the DxOMark score. Last year, the company even began to review audio performance of handsets. Having said that, it has now released the list of best camera, selfie, and audio smartphones.
DxOMark Camera and DxOMark Audio teams review smartphones on a regular basis when new devices hit the markets. They never publish stories on best smartphones for camera, selfie, and audio since it can be easily known from the website’s homepage.
Surprisingly, they did publish them now and here we are doing a PSA. The company has posted three different posts for each category and listed the best device along with runner-ups. That being said, let us take a look at the winners.
DxOMark Best Smartphone Cameras
DxOMark has divided this category into 6 sub-categories and the Huawei P40 Pro wins 4 of them since it is still the unbeatable king with an overall camera score of 128.
Anyway, here are the winners and runner-ups of DxOMark best smartphone cameras.
Best for Photo |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Huawei P40 Pro |
Honor 30 Pro Plus Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G |
Best for Video |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Huawei P40 Pro |
Honor 30 Pro Plus Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro |
Best for Wide |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra |
Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus |
Best for Night |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Huawei P40 Pro |
Honor V30 Pro Honor 30 Pro Plus |
Best for Zoom |
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Winner |
Runner-up |
Huawei P40 Pro |
Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro |
Best for Bokeh |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G |
Honor V30 Pro Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra |
DxOMark Best Smartphone Selfie Cameras
This category includes two sub-categories and they are selfie photo and selfie video respectively. Unsurprisingly, Huawei P40 Pro wins in both with some Samsung Galaxies as runner-ups.
Best for Selfie Photo |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Huawei P40 Pro |
Huawei Nova 6 5G Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra |
Best for Selfie Video |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Huawei P40 Pro |
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G |
DxOMark Best Smartphones For Audio
This is the only category in which the Huawei P40 Pro neither wins or nor gets a runner-up tag. The Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro wins in this category for audio playback, whereas the Honor V30 Pro performs well in audio recording.
Best for Audio Playback |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro |
Huawei Mate 20 X Oppo Find X2 Pro |
Best for Audio Recording |
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Winner |
Runner-ups |
Honor V30 Pro |
Huawei Mate 30 Pro 4G / 5G Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro |
The Huawei P40 Pro excels in the camera department unlike any other smartphone released so far as per DxOMark. Unfortunately, this handset is hard to recommend due to the lack of GMS (Google Mobile Services) and other crucial daily used apps.
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