I suspect "good phone camera" is still quite unevenly distributed. My current phone (Umidigi F1) is decidedly mediocre; I suspect that, as much if not more tha

I suspect "good phone camera" is still quite unevenly distributed. My current phone (Umidigi F1) is decidedly mediocre; I suspect that, as much if not more than CPU, is a big place manufacturers show daylight between the $200 phone and the $1000 one. I tend to be suspicious how much that software and MIPS can compensate for optics and sensor size. I know a lot of the premium phones will augment the main sensor with, say, 5MP "macro" and "wide angle" sensors with more appropriate optics, but that feels like an admission they're not going to produce great results in those sections of their range. I'd sort of love to see a phone with a single uber-sensor (like the old Nokia 808 or Lumia 1020) and several lenses on some sort of steampunk-looking rotary assembly, or better, a screw mount of some sort, so you could approach the flexibility of an interchangeable-lens camera. I've seen the little aftermarket macro lenses you can clip onto a cameraphone, and the idea is right but the execution seems doomed to terrible results. I guess I'm weird-- I mostly want to take macro photos of models and invertebrates, rather than photos of humans, so what I want in a camera device is probably not what Joe Instagram wants.