Even if you’ve owned a smartphone since grade school, a string of camera specs — 12MP, f/1.5, 52mm, 1.0 µm — might look like a foreign language to you. All of the best phones have impressive cameras, but their camera specs increasingly look more and more like gibberish.
Yet, those figures are important in understanding your phone camera’s capabilities. At the same time, some figures that phone makers toss in there are just fluff. A stat like a 20x digital zoom may look great on paper — wow, 20x is a big number — it really doesn’t do much for actual camera or image quality.
