Samsung camera, Vivo camera, Apple camera
Price:
Samsung: Samsung offers a wide range of handsets covering a plethora of price points. From wallet-friendly devices to premium flagship phones, Samsung caters to a variety of consumers.
iPhone: Apple's mobile offering is typically at the higher end of the price spectrum. Their prices generally remain fairly consistent throughout their line-up and between models.
Vivo: Vivo often makes a name for itself on the back of some very competitive pricing. Particularly for the mid-range side of the market which often offers some real bang for your buck.
Photo Quality:
Samsung: Samsung handsets offer vibrant colors that perform particularly well in well-lit conditions. Users may find they struggle slightly in extremely low light due to Samsung's tendency to want to smooth over images.
iPhone: Excels in delivering natural-looking images, boasting superb dynamic range, and adeptly handling various lighting conditions.
Vivo: Demonstrates significant improvement over the years, often collaborating with Zeiss optics for flagship models, resulting in impressive image and video quality.
The iPhone has been the standard for years, providing a rich and natural look, excellent dynamic range, and great performance in just about every lighting condition.
Vivo: Vivo has built its reputation over the last few years and its flagship models often include work with Zeiss optics. This shows in video and photo ability -- they're really good.
Popularity:
Samsung: Samsung is a well-known brand, but not always at the forefront of cutting-edge camera tech.
iPhone: Do we even need to explain this? The iPhone has defined several trends in smartphone camera tech from computational photography features to video recording tech of all sorts.
Vivo: Vivo is beginning to trend in a big way, thanks to offerings like gimbal stabilization technology, and wild camera designs that you probably never thought were possible on a smartphone.
The Winner:
The best brand for you will depend on what is most important to you, and your budget -- but generally:
If overall camera performance is your biggest need, the iPhone is probably still the best brand overall.
Samsung:
A valuable match, also capable of producing sharper images than the iPhone when in good lighting conditions. At their best, Samsung phones even outshine the iPhone and Vivo.
Vivo:
Fast chasing the front runners by matching or exceeding an iPhone or Samsung's features at specific midrange price points.
Value for Money:
Vivo: Established a reputation for delivering competitive cameras at a much more pedestrian cost than Samsung or Apple.
Samsung: However, Samsung does an excellent job at catering to a wide range of budgets.
iPhone: It's not that the iPhone doesn't have cameras of excellent quality; more that they almost always carry a price tag to match.
Trendiness:
iPhone: It's a true polarity; you either think that Apple leads, the others follow, or you've never heard of Vivo in particular, to be blunt.
Vivo: Their technology is impressive, and sometimes very eye-catching.
Samsung: It would rather position is as a top-tier option rather than cutting-edge.
Important Considerations:
Specific Models: All three makers produce a variety of high-end phones over time, plus performance can vary from one model to another, so it's wise to compare individual recent model phone cameras if you're after the best smartphone camera.
Personal Preferences: For example, iPhone on the whole tend to be biased toward slightly warm photographs with a smoothing effect that can make them look a little less detailed than those from an iPhone. It's what people mean when they say the iPhone has a more “natural” color tone ᅳ it's just that nature (if you're thinking of raw image data) isn't always as perfect as Apple's image processors!
Features: You may (figure out the worth, amount, or quality of) particular features such as zoom abilities, night modes, video (making steady/firm and strong), etc.
Feel free to let us know if you'd like a neck-to-neck comparison of specific models from these or any other brands!
