I spent a weekend with one of Android’s best camera phones — and found a glaring problem

Despite various global pressures, smartphone makers remain deeply engaged in a camera specs race. With 200MP sensors becoming regular fixtures, external lenses now offered on even more devices, and advanced computational processing becoming the annoying norm, modern camera phones have more potential than ever to yield impressive results. This makes it really easy to forget that these devices are not cameras, but smartphones with camera capabilities.