
This year we saw a stronger-than-usual emphasis on smartphone tele-cameras. While cameras with 2x optical zoom are still the standard, we're now seeing phones that have 3x, 5x and even 10x zoom tele-cameras. But even without a dedicated 10x lens, pretty much every smartphone today lets you take a picture at 10x zoom using a combination of optical and digital zoom.
To see what the advantages and disadvantages of these higher magnification lenses are, we decided to see how some of the most popular flagship phones right now fare against each other with a short zoom comparison. ...