At the top of our list of the best camera phones you can buy sits the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, a 200MP behemoth that has no less than five cameras, including a 200MP sensor, a 10X optical zoom, and don’t get me started on 8K video recording. Do those 200 megapixels make the Galaxy the king of smartphone photography? Nope, not even close. Megapixels don’t matter, there are more important things to understand when you choose and use your next camera phone.
A megapixel isn’t actually a thing, it’s a measurement. It means one million pixels. But what pixels are we talking about? We don’t mean the pixels in the final image, we mean the pixels on the camera sensor that detect light and color. A phone sensor may have 200MP, but that doesn’t mean the final image will be that size.
