ChuckTa

Check the user manual. There might be a requirement to use a tripod whenever you use the phone's camera??

Now that 2x optical zoom is omnipresent among the flagship phones. I fail to see why Pixel still resist to use a real optical zoom that does the job better than computational route. And when...

Where is the leap?? Do you mean as compare to old Iphones? XS iq does look better than X, but I don't see anything XS has that is a leap over any existing flagship phones.

I am not sure your reasoning stands as you can look at dpr image studio using iphone x vs Fuji xt20. Iphone iso640 is not very pretty at all and Fuji uses a long lens. Now imagine Iphone X at iso1250.

Yes, out of my 4 cameras, none of them can do accurate WB under that kind of light. And no, with that low light, Huawei other mode will not be the best option there. But what I could do is manually ...

That's because I don't have the Fuji 18mm/f2 lens. And even if I do, the result may still not better than Huawei as that lens don't have stabilization and I have to shot handheld. It's very odd you ...

For the pixel peepers. I've shown 2 photos from Fuji XT20 where one is almost direct (contrast+5, shadow+16, its from the previous import setting), from LR raw Provia and second is with adjustments ...

LOL. That is funny. I think Iphone has done an amazing job squeezing quality images from that small sensor. But physics is physics and iphone1/2.9 inch is not going to compete with Pixel 1/2.3 size.

Maybe Huawei 1/1.7 sensor size vs Pixel 1/2.3 inch will give you a hint?

You should as least get the Samsung S7, which has a bit bigger isocell sensor.  The Samsung S7 is my old camera now replaced by Huawei P20 Pro and the P20 is really quite a bit better than the S7.

For me, Huawei support so far is better than the Samsung s7 I had before. So that is good enough for me. The P20 Pro camera however, can easily beat any Iphone. I was on a trip with a group of ...

It's obvious you don't know much about Huawei phones. There are 5 firmware upgrades since May. And Huawei is already doing beta testing on Android Pie and expect to roll out soon for the P20 series.

U do know other brand of smart phones exists? Some very usable China smart phone like Xiaomi does fit in the budget of $150 usd.

Here is another look at a newer but small Sony quad bayer sensor. https://www.dpreview.com/news/0249781150/sony-imx586-smartphone-sensor-comes-with-48mp-and-quad-bayer-design The pixel size can be ...

My opinion the inconsistencies is due to early firmware and using mainly the AI mode. First, there were many firmware upgrades and some of those does improved the image quality. Some of us ...

Note that only few of the smartphone combines the output from the multiple sensors to form a better image. And Huawei is one of them.

I concur with you as I also have it. Which something can be a bad thing as I now use my Fuji xt20 much less.
Oh, wait, I had fun using P20 Pro. Ok, might be good too.

You should check the latest info. DxOmark current top of the list is the Huawei P20 Pro. https://www.dxomark.com/category/mobile-reviews/ This is expected since it has the latest sensor size ...

Quite a bit of that price you pay for the Iphone name.

I believe that almost every new smartphone that come out now is "a camera that you will always have on you".
And some of those can actually be very cheap.