The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is the top end flagship model from one of the world’s largest smartphone maker. Now, the device has passed through DxOMark rating for its selfie cameras, and it has managed to enter the top 10 rankings out of all the phones DxOMark has tested. So let’s have a look.

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra scores 141 points in DxOMark Selfie Camera

The DxOMark score was based on its performance in two categories, Video and Photo. It scored 145 points for videography and 139 points in photography. The company noted that the selfie camera on the Galaxy S23 Ultra had good exposure and wide dynamic range in both photos and videos. However, there were occasionally some issues with underexposure in low light scenes. During low light it even struggled with details at times and lacked contrast in photo mode.

DxOMark even found some ghosting, ringing, and hue shift artifacts in some captures. Apart from this, the device received various praises for its accurate white balance and natural looking skin tones in bright and indoor lighting conditions. The autofocus was also fast and accurate. In most scenes, the noise levels were mostly not too high and the bokeh effect had accurate depth estimation. The Samsung flagship was also praised for its effective video stabilization. You can even check out our report over the S23 Ultra’s rear camera performance that was shared by DxOMark earlier this year.

Thanks to all this, the Galaxy S23 Ultra ranked 9th in the global ranking for selfie cameras across all smartphones DxOMark has tested thus far. On the other hand, it also achieved a position of 8th in the Ultra Premium ranking. In other words, it is clear that Samsung has shipped with smartphone with a very capable selfie camera that is great in most scenarios.

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DxOMark, the known camera testing brand, has just crowned the Huawei Mate 40 Pro for having the best selfie camera in a smartphone. The firm made the decision after various tests and ranking it against smartphones from other brands as well.

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro has a dual selfie camera module on the front. It sports a 13 megapixel 1/2.8″ sensor, which arrives alongside a fixed focus lens and a time of flight sensor that helps with depth sensing for bokeh mode shots. Despite only having a 13 megapixel shooter, the Chinese tech giant’s engineers had surprisingly managed to “squeeze an awful lot of image quality out of the front camera module,” as per DxOMark. The device leads in the selfie category and holds the crown for Photography with 110 points, “thanks to class-leading performance across many attributes, and very few obvious flaws.”

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As per the testings, DxOMark found that the camera offered great exposure even during low light scenarios, with a wide dynamic range as well. This helped the device quite a bit in well lit scenes, especially when the background was brighter than the subject. The tests also revealed that colors were fairly accurate, and the device offered good white balance in night scenes. Although it had a fixed focus lens, the Mate 40 Pro’s selfie shooter performed well in the tests, including the Bokeh shots.

Furthermore, the fash on the Mate 40 Pro also helped illuminate the subject during the dark conditions and provided good exposure. While it was crowned the best, the device still had a few areas to improve upon, namely with the few image artifacts, certain instabilities, color inconsistencies at times, and inaccurate white balancing issues on skin tones. Although, these were still minor issues compared to its otherwise great performance.

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The Mi 10 Ultra is Xiaomi’s 10th-anniversary flagship smartphone. This handset was unveiled in August 2020 and is exclusive to China. The phone’s DXOMARK Camera review was also released on the day of its announcement as it beat the then champion HUAWEI P40 Pro. Anyway, it lost to HUAWEI Mate40 two months later in October. Now, the device loses big time on DXOMARK Selfie by scoring only 88 points.

The DXOMARK team has finally published the selfie review of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra. According to it, the smartphone ranks distant 22nd by bagging 88 points. In other words, the front-facing camera on this phone is simply mediocre, as per the review.

The Mi 10 Ultra comes equipped with a single punch-hole selfie camera located at the top left side of the handset’s curved OLED display supplied by TCL CSOT. It is a 20MP 1/3.4-inch fixed-focus sensor with an f/2.3 lens capable of capturing images of up to 20 megapixels and recording videos up to a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (FHD) at 30 fps.

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Talking about performance, the device scores 86 points for photos and 91 points for videos respectively. The camera outputs pictures with accurate exposure (generally) on faces, and neutral white balance under most conditions.

But due to limited dynamic range, highlights are clipped in both photos and videos. Moreover, the images also suffer from noise (especially in low light), hue shit, flare, color quantization, inconsistent flash exposure, and unnatural blur effect in portrait mode.

As for videos, they have effective stabilization, well-controlled noise, accurate exposure, nice skin tones in both outdoor as well as indoor conditions, and good detail under bright light.

However, just like with the stills, the phone’s selfie camera also has several cons in video recording such as facial detail loss (especially in low light), occasional unnatural colors as well as skin tones, jello effect, and unnatural skin tones in low light.

All in all, the Mi 10 Ultra’s front-facing camera is no match for the competitors. But the smartphone’s rear camera setup makes up for it. 

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The iPhone 12 Pro is one of the four new premium smartphones launched by Apple this year. This model was recently reviewed by DXOMARK for display and camera. Now, the company has published a review for the selfie category, in which the handset comes seventh in the chart and ties with ASUS Zenfone 6 by scoring 98 points.

The iPhone 12 Pro comes with a single 12 MP 1/3.6-inch sensor with an f/2.2-aperture lens on the front. This camera is accompanied by an SL 3D sensor for depth estimation. 

The phone is capable of recording 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) Dolby Vision HDR videos at 24/30/60 fps and FHD (1920 x 1080 pixels) videos at up to 120 fps. The camera hardware does not have OIS and hence, the device uses gyro-EIS.

The device scored 101 points and 93 points for photo and video categories respectively in DXOMARK Selfie. Therefore, its overall score averaged at 98 points.

According to the review, the iPhone 12 Pro’s selfie camera outputs pictures with generally accurate exposure on faces with pleasant skin tone rendering. The images produced are highly detailed in bright to normal indoor lightings and even noise on in-focus subjects are well-controlled in bright light.

It even offers accurate depth estimation in bokeh mode, thanks to the additional sensor. However, noise is visible in the background. There are also occasional white balance casts and clipping in high dynamic range senses. Further, exposure drops down when using the flash mode and since the camera comes with fixed focus, distant subjects are blurry.

As for videos, the phone can record detailed clips with a wide dynamic range and accurate white balance. Although there are few artifacts, residual motion effects kick in while walking and visible noise at lower light levels.

In simpler words, the Apple iPhone 12 Pro’s front camera performs very well with some shortcomings like any other flagship smartphone available in the market.

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Huawei has officially launched its latest flagship smartphones in the form of the HUAWEI Mate40 series. Like their predecessors, they feature impressive camera hardware. In fact, the HUAWEI Mate40 Pro scored 136 points and 104 points in DXOMARK Camera and Selfie tests claiming the first position from Mi 10 Ultra and HUAWEI P40 Pro respectively.

The newly launched HUAWEI Mate40 Pro brings an upgraded camera setup. 

Rear Camera Setup

• 50 MP Ultra Vision Camera

  • Wide Angle
  • 1/1.28″ Sensor
  • 23 mm-equivalent
  • f/1.9 Aperture

• 20 MP Cine Camera

  • Ultra-Wide Angle
  • 1/1.54″ Sensor
  • 18mm-equivalent
  • f/1.8 Aperture

• 12 MP Telephoto Camera

  • 1/3.56″ Sensor
  • 125mm-equivalent
  • f/3.4 Aperture
  • 5x Optical Zoom
  • OIS

• Multispectral Color Temperature Sensor

Front Camer Setup

• 13 MP Ultra Vision Selfie Camera

  • Wide Angle
  • 1/2.8″ Sensor
  • 18mm-equivalent
  • f/2.4 Aperture

• 3D Depth Sensing Camera

  • ToF Sensor

Some of the pros of the phone’s rear camera setup include wide dynamic range, fast and accurate AF for both photos as well as videos, good depth estimation in bokeh mode, accurate wite balance in videos, and more.

As for cons, the ultra-wide camera offers a narrow field of view, occasional color quantization and ghosting artifacts in videos, variations in sharpness in videos when walking, and more.

The HUAWEI P40 Pro unveiled in March led the DXOMARK Camera chart up until Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra showed up. Now, once again, Huawei has claimed the top position with the new HUAWEI Mate40 Pro.

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The Apple iPhone 11 is the latest smartphone to be reviewed by DxOMark Selfie team. The handset scores an overall 91 points. Unfortunately, it still does not make it to the top 10. It currently ranks 13th in the list just above Huawei P30 Pro and below Samsung Galaxy Note 9.

According to the testers, the iPhone 11 performs decently with similar outputs like its bigger sibling iPhone 11 Pro series but there are some differences as well.

The selfies from the handset have very good target exposure on faces in almost all conditions. However, it does lack some dynamic range and highlight clippings are visible in images shot under high-contrast conditions.

The phone produces vivid colors with a slightly warm white balance. On the other, skin tones are yellowish on both iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. Whereas, the pictures from Galaxy S10 Plus have more natural-looking skin tone.

The cheapest iPhone from last year also has a problem with focus. Only the subjects close to the phone have good focus as the phone does not have an autofocus system. The images from the handset have a good amount of details in better lighting. Noise picks up indoors as well as in low-light scenarios.

Flash in the form of screen brightness does work as advertised but there are noise and vignetting effect with lower details. Artifacts in the images are well-controlled but there are visible corner softening, ringing, and anamorphosis.

The bokeh or portrait shots have strong blur even on the things that are in the same focus plane as the subject creating an artificial look. Also, there are visible blurs across the edges of the subject.

As for videos, the Apple iPhone 11 can shoot 4K 30fps clips with good details and lower noise than the iPhone 11 Pro. But the focus issue from pictures is present in videos too.

Also, colors are pleasant with accurate exposure and good white balance. The videos also have smooth transitions in changing lights with well-controlled artifacts. The stabilization is effective as well but it fixates more on the subject than the background.

As a whole, the iPhone 11’s selfie camera performs reasonably well with the focus being its nemesis.

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Honor V30 Pro launched late last year scores only 76 points in DxOMark Selfie. The score is too less for a phone with 122 points for its rear cameras. On top of it, the device ain’t champ in audio either with a substandard score of 59 points.

The pictures from the phone’s front camera have unnatural low contrast on faces as well as exposure instabilities across different shots. But target exposure on the face is mostly accurate in all conditions. Further, the images also suffer from limited dynamic range resulting in highlight clipping in challenging high-contrast scenes.

The pictures also tend to have problems with colours. Saturation is quite low with unnatural skin tones. White balance is unstable producing color casts and there is noticeable colour-shading in low-light shots.

The fixed focus with a large image sensor results in poor focus performance. Images lack sharpness and focus if the subject is either too close or far away from the phone. This handset is not suitable for clicking pictures using a selfie stick.

The properly shot pictures from the Honor V30 Pro’s selfie camera have good textures, however, beautification erodes away fine detail. Noise is well-controlled in ideal lighting but becomes more visible indoors and low-light scenarios. Additionally, the bokeh mode on the phone is unstable with noticeable exposure and white balance instabilities.

On the other hand, videos from the front camera have good details, thanks to 4K quality. Target exposure on face and white balance are stable outdoors and under typical indoor lighting. The stabilization performance is also good with keeping the video smooth and steady.

But the cons of photography continues in videography as well. The videos have visible highlight clipping on faces and in the background in high-contrast scenes. Also, the videos have poor color rendering with low saturation on skin tones. There are also visible hue shift, ringing artifcats, and narrow depth of field.

In general, the Honor V30 Pro is not suitable for selfies just like it is for audio. However, the phone’s rear cameras perform extremely well.

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The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra underwent DxOMark Selfie test and scores a whopping 100 points, second only to Huawei P40 Pro with 103 points. Unlike the rear camera test, in which the phone ranks 7th with 122 points, the front camera performed much better in its own regard.

At the second position with 100 points on DxOMark Selfie, the Galaxy S20 Ultra ties with Huawei Nova 6 5G and is just one point ahead of Galaxy Note 10 Plus’ 99 points. According to the testers, the S20 Ultra’s front camera offers a stable performance making it a reliable option for selfie enthusiasts.

Talking about pictures from the front camera, the Galaxy S20 Ultra scores a record 87 points for exposure and contrast. The images out of the device have accurate exposures in all lighting conditions whether properly lit or dark. However, although colors are pleasant with accurate white balance and nice skin tones, it is generally inconsistent.

The focus performance is good enough and nothing extraordinary. The levels of the acutance are higher than iPhone 11 Pro Max but the depth of field is not as good as Apple’s because of the larger sensor.

The texture details are on point with the other top performers but the handset falls behind in low-light conditions. Artifacts are well-controlled but there are noticeable distortion, color quantization, anamorphosis of elements towards the edges, color fringing, and face rendering artifacts.

The flash performance is not as good as other high scorers as there are white balance color casts and visible noise in faces. Bokeh is great for a single selfie camera with good subject segmentation and minor edge artifacts.

The 4K 30fps video from the selfie camera on has accurate exposure just like images with high details, vivid colors, and wide depth of field. However, it suffers from autofocus issues, visible noise, cold white balance cast in outdoors, and other visible parameters like color quantization, hue shift, aliasing, and texture artifacts.

Overall, the  Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra performs well making it a go-to selfie camera phone for people who can afford it.

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DxOMark is known for its camera comparisons. However, for smartphones it has always been limited to just the rear cameras, leaving users to find out themselves which phone takes better selfies. Now, they have begun rating front-facing cameras and have released a list of the phones with the best selfie cameras.

According to the ranking, if you want to take the absolute best selfies, the Google Pixel 3 is the device you should go for. If you don’t like the Pixel 3, then you should choose the Samsung Galaxy Note9 as it has the same selfie camera score as the Pixel 3.

Xiaomi’s Mi MIX 3 comes in at the third spot with 84 points, a significant distance from the Pixel and Note, but if it is any consolation, it beats the iPhone XS Max and the Galaxy S9 Plus which come after it in that order. The second gen Pixel is sixth and DxOMark says it takes better selfies than Huawei’s 2018 flagships – the Mate 20 Pro and P20 Pro. The Galaxy S8 and the iPhone X also make the list of the top 10 selfie camera phones.

DxOMark says the rating is based on how well the phones perform while taking solo selfies, group selfies,  indoor and outdoor selfies, video recording, under natural light and much more before. So this isn’t just about pictures alone. So for example, the Galaxy Note9 is better at recording videos with the front camera than the Pixel 3.

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Thinking out loud, do the Nubia X and Vivo NEX Dual Display get to enter as contenders for the selfie king since their rear cameras are actually also selfie cameras? Let us know what you think about the list in the comment box.

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