Which new blockbuster smartphone shoots the best photos and videos? We put Apple's iPhone 4, Motorola's Droid X, HTC's EVO 4G, and Samsung's Galaxy to the test. There's a clear-cut winner
If a picture really is worth a thousand words, this summer's camera-equipped smartphone pack should save you several minutes on your monthly voice plan.
The megapixel wars have officially migrated to the phone world: Sprint's HTC Evo 4G and Verizon's Motorola Droid X both sport 8-megapixel cameras, while AT&T's Apple iPhone 4 and T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy S offer up 5-megapixel shooters. All four phones also boast 720p high-definition video capture at 30 frames per second.
But as any camera buff will tell you, megapixel counts and boasts of "HD video capture" rarely mean a thing in terms of performance-especially when it comes to small-sensored camera phones and point-and-shoot cameras. We wanted to see how each of these four superphones performed in the real world.
We ran them through the gauntlet of PCWorld Labs' subjective testing for still image and video performance. Here's how the Droid X, Evo 4G, iPhone 4, and Samsung Galaxy S stacked up to one another in our formal tests for color accuracy, exposure quality, sharpness, distortion, video quality in bright and low lighting, and audio capture.
