Even today, there are several types of compact cameras, and some have capabilities that pretty much no phone can match ... deliver good image quality, zoom lenses and direct controls.

A hallmark of some of the best camera phones is how much they can zoom. Cameras like the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra use a ...

Best point-and-shoot camera phone The Google Pixel 9 Pro (buy now) may not have all the bells and whistles of the S24 Ultra, but what it lacks in lenses and zoom, it makes for in rock-solid ...

the Motorola One Zoom. Here the headline spec is a quad-lens 48MP+16MP+8MP+5MP camera – on paper, at least, enough to trouble the best flagships on the market, but inside a phone that's a lot ...

Samsung's best camera phone is the Galaxy S24 Ultra, which offers a stellar four-camera system and is the company's lone phone with a 5x optical zoom lens. Samsung's best foldable phone is the ...

Changing the focal length of a camera by adjusting the physical zoom lens. All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot ...

Getting extra zoom ... lenses facing horizontally in relation to the prism. Samsung is then able to increase the size of its lens without it having a negative effect on the thickness of the phone.