The best camera phone for 2025

We test every phone in the real world scenarios, focusing on its features, design, performance, cameras, battery life and total value. We are documenting the results we have reached in a preliminary review that is updated periodically when there are new updates for programs, or to compare them for new phones from competitors such as Apple, Samsung, Google and OnePlus.

Photography

Photography is the main axis of most phones these days, so we take pictures and videos of various topics in a variety of settings and lighting scenarios. We try any new camera modes, such as the Proors Log Video that first appeared with iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, or Magic Editor tool launched with the Google Pixel 8 series.

Battery life

The battery test is done in several ways. We evaluate the duration that the phone continues during a typical day to use and note how it works through more concentration sessions of video calls, media and games. We also perform a video playback test, as a simple meter repetitive for pure battery life, which has not always been included in the initial review but sometimes it was later added in a update.

Performance measurement

We use measurement applications to measure the performance of each phone, as well as our anecdotal experiences using the phone to review us. The most prominent of which looks graphics and animation. Is it soft? Or are you backward or affected? Take a look at the speed of the phone’s switch between the horizontal and vertical trends, and the speed of opening the camera application and is ready to take a picture.

We perform heavy treated tasks such as photo editing, export videos and play games. We evaluate whether a newer version of a specific phone includes sufficient features to make it worth upgrading from old models.

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