Honor, the Huawei subsidiary, had recently unveiled its flagship Honor 30 series. Now, the Chinese company’s high end Honor 30 Pro+ has received the second-highest DxOMark rating by scoring 125 points, which is just slightly below the Huawei P40 Pro.

For those unaware, DxOMark is a renowned benchmarking and rating platform that generally reviews professional-grade or digital camera, and recently, smartphones as well. They use various tests in different conditions and environments to get the clearest possible results and have become a standard for ratings in the smartphone industry in recent years.

Arriving at the score, the Honor 30 Pro+ scored a total of 125 points, which includes 136 points for photography and 104 points for videography. Starting with the former, the premium flagship received an impressive score. The device’s zoom capabilities were specifically praised, while the autofocus, exposure, and color also achieved high ratings. The Honor 30 Pro+ features a 50 megapixel primary sensor alongside a 16 megapixel ultra wide lens and 8 megapixel telephoto lens.

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Arriving at the video scores, aspects like exposure, colors, and autofocus again received impressive ratings while the overall stabilization was one of the key highlights in this area. Videos were found to have detailed textures with natural colors. Notably, the smartphone is also capable of 4K (2160p) recording at 60fps, which is the current standard in flagship smartphones.

Overall, the Honor 30 Pro+ featured good dynamic range, textures, fast autofocus, and good stabilization. However, it did suffer from low saturations during low light scenarios and a loss of sharpness in a few pictures that were zoomed in. White balance was also an issue when capturing videoes, but the handset is still one of the best smartphones DxOMark has ever rated.

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DxOMark is a renowned benchmarking and testing company that tests a varied range of gadget that includes professional grade cameras, digital cameras, and even smartphone cameras. In the tests, the company also tests the audio performance of the device and with its latest tests on the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition, the results were slightly lacking.

Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition receives an Audio test score of just 54 points out of 100. In comparison to other devices within the same segment, the score is relatively low. While the audio output from the single speaker found in the Mi CC9 Pro performed well overall, its sound field was less than desirable. The audio output turned out to be narrow, unbalanced and the bass was negligible.

Furthermore, the audio output gets extremely distorted and muddled at higher or maximum volume range. However, the same is not the case if the volume levels are at lower levels. According to DxOMark, Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition’s main downfall in the audio tests was its single speaker. The configuration made sound quality unnatural, especially when enjoying media entertainment like movies, music and even during mobile gaming.

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On the other hand, the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition did receive praise in certain cases. Its playback was very accurate and clear. The device had good positioning ability and distance presentation which is positive for listening and recording non-music content.

Summing things up, the Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition did not have a balanced speaker and suffered from terrible distortions, lack of bass, and muddled sounds in certain cases. However, it did manage to be more appealing with its audio recording capabilities with its playback specifically receiving praise.

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Apple’s iPhone 11 series has been one of its most popular lineups in recent years. It includes the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and the Pro Max variant. One of the great features the smartphone lineup provided was a great camera and DxOMark has rated the iPhone 11 with 109 points in its tests.

Initially, DxOMark was a benchmarking platform that tested digital and professional grade cameras, but since the original Google Pixel, have also started testing smartphones as well. In the tests, Apple iPhone 11 scored 109 points overall for its camera which includes both photography and videography. This put the Cupertino based giant’s smartphone right below Xiaomi Mi 9 with 110 points and next to Huawei P20 Pro that scored 109 points as well.

Notably, iPhone 11 beat the previous generation flagship, iPhone XS Max, which scored 106 points. However, the former is beaten by its more expensive variants, the iPhone 11 Pro Max with an overall score of 117. The reason for the noticeable difference has bee n accredited to the lack of a third lens in the iPhone 11, unlike its larger more pricier variant. It scored 112 points in still images with its strength lying in its quick autofocus and great exposure in images.

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Unfortunately, it loses out due to its short focal length for portraits and the low zoom quality at medium to long ranges, since it lacks a telephoto lens on the rear. Although it’s ultra wide lens did receive positive remarks. In terms of videography, Apple iPhone 11 scored 101 points, with its exposure being highlighted again alongside great color reproduction and praiseworthy stabilization.

But, the Apple flagship from 2019 suffers from a visible jello effet with when walking and recording and its white balance tends to suffer while indoors, according to DxOMark. All in all, the company stated that “the device is very capable of shooting both stills and video” so it is still one of the best cameras on a smartphone.

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In the smartphone industry, DxOMark has established itself as a renowned benchmarking authority for mobile photography and videography. Initially, the company had placed its primary focus on professional grade and digital handheld cameras but have since branched out to include smartphones as well. Now, DxOMark has just unveiled its latest review which had the Honor V30 Pro achieve 122 points, which is second highest rating ever given out.

Honor is a subsidiary of Huawei, which also holds the top and third highest DxOMark scoring smartphone, Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G and Huawei Mate 30 Pro. In the camera photography area, the Honor V30 Pro received an impressive 133 points with its zoom feature being the most highlighted and well received aspect of the camera module. It also achieved 100 points in videography and received praise for its stabilization methods, quick autofocus and color reproduction.

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Honor’s V30 series featured a Matrix Camera technology for systemic imaging technology framework through software and hardware collaboration. In simpler terms, the handset was well optimized with capable hardware and well programmed algorithm software which helped it achieve an industry leading score. The camera module sports the customized Sony IMX600 RYYB 40-megapixel sensor with f/1.8 aperture as the main lens, an 8-megapixel telephoto sensor with f/2.4 aperture and a 12-megapixel cine lens with f/2.2 aperture with 109-degree field-of-view.

Notably, Xiong Junmin, the Vice President of Honor, took the scores as an opportunity to claim that higher pixel count doesn’t translate to better images but a combination of optics, sensors, chips, algorithms, and more do, something that have also been backed up by the ratings. This was shared on the senior executives official Weibo account, a Chinese microblogging website.

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Over the past few years, DxOMark has turned out to be an important part of smartphone benchmarks. Almost all of the new flagship models that are released in the market are subjected to their thorough camera tests. But there are some smartphone companies who opt out of DxOMark tests, and OPPO is one of them.

Earlier today, OPPO’s VP, Brian Shen, questioned the significance of DxOMark benchmarks in today’s smartphone market. While talking to his followers on Weibo, he said that there was no need to set a specific standard when it comes to smartphone cameras. He questioned whether it was right to tune every smartphone camera to one particular standard.

“Do you really need DXO? Do all cameras have to be tuned to the same standard?

I mean, there may be a need for rating agencies, but does anything as subjective as taking a picture have to be set to the same standard? Is it right To beautify everyone into one style?” Brian posted on his Weibo earlier today.

Interestingly, OPPO smartphones are never rated on DxOMark’s camera tests. As a result, you won’t find a single flagship from the company on DxOMark’s best smartphone camera list. On the other hand, you’ll find almost everyone else, including Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung, Sony and even OnePlus on DxOMark’s chart.

This goes on to prove that most companies don’t mind getting their smartphones rated from the benchmarking platform. While I agree one specific standard is never the best way to judge a smartphone camera, what DxOMark gives us is the opportunity to compare the best phones out there on a standard benchmark. Understanding how different smartphone cameras work in a set environment does give us an idea of where it stands among the competition.

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That said, some might prefer Google Pixel 3’s camera (DxoMark score: 107) over Huawei Mate 20 Pro (DxOMark score: 109). So there’s definitely a hint of personal preference to a smartphone’s camera performance. But it’s unlikely that you would end up finding Asus Zenfone 5’s camera (much lower down the DxoMark chart at 90 points) better than say something like the Galaxy Note 9 (featuring one of the top DxoMark scores — 103).

What are your thoughts? Should we stop giving too much importance to DxOMark ratings?

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