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Huawei P40 Camera test: Mid-ranger with potential

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The Huawei P40 was announced in March of 2020 alongside its higher-end siblings, the P40 Pro and P40 Pro+. It features a 6.1-inch OLED screen, the same Kirin 990 5G chipset found in Huawei’s flagships, ...

Oppo Find X2 Neo Camera test: Mid-range alternative

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Launched in May 2020, the Oppo Find X2 Neo is a new mid-range phone in the Find X2 series. It features a 6.5-inch AMOLED with a fast 90 Hz refresh rate, a slim aluminum and ...

Asus ROG Phone 3 Display test: Struggles with video

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A lightning-fast refresh rate, powerful Snapdragon 865+ processor, and “monster” 6000 mAh battery are all part of the package for the Asus ROG Phone 3, which came out in July 2020. (It’s so recent that ...

Updated: Sony Xperia 1 camera test

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Please note: In October 2020, we updated the DXOMARK Camera test protocol. Version 4 now includes image preview tests and a wide range of new test scenes as part of our new trustability evaluation which ...

Oppo Find X2 Pro Display test: Slightly off the pace

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Please note: In the original version of this review, we used the term “burn-in” to describe a non-uniformity that our testers observed on the device’s display. This was a poor choice of words, as it ...

Xiaomi Black Shark 3 Pro Display test: Room for improvement

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The Xiaomi Black Shark 3 Pro, which first appeared on the market in spring 2020, is explicitly designed for gamers, its sleek ergonomic design housing a powerful Snapdragon 865+ processor and lots of battery life. ...

Updated: Samsung Galaxy A50 Camera test: Feature-rich budget device

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Please note: In October 2020, we updated the DXOMARK Camera test protocol. Version 4 now includes image preview tests and a wide range of new test scenes as part of our new trustability evaluation which ...

Nubia Red Magic 5S Audio test: Aiming to please gamers

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The Nubia Red Magic 5S is designed to appeal to serious gamers. It arrived just months after the Red Magic 5G, with a few modifications, including an improved internal cooling system (with the possibility of ...

Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (Exynos) Audio test: A new standard for artifact control

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Samsung has always had a thing for superlatives: this time around, the Galaxy Note20 Ultra offers “hyperfast 5G,” “superfast charging,” the “highest-resolution video recording in a smartphone,” and a huge 6.9-inch display with a dynamic ...

Asus ZenFone 7 Pro Camera test: Much improved tele-zoom

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The ZenFone 7 Pro is Asus’s new flagship phone. It keeps the interesting motorized flip-up camera cluster introduced in last year’s ZenFone 6, a neat trick that means the rear cameras are also the front ...

Asus ZenFone 7 Pro Selfie test: Top pick for video

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The Asus ZenFone 7 Pro is Asus’s latest flagship smartphone and comes with the same unusual camera concept as its predecessor, the ZenFone 6: instead of two camera modules—one on the front and another on ...

Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G Camera test: Excellent wide and ultra-wide

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Hot on the heels of their S20, S20+ and S20 Ultra standard smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G is the South Korean manufacturer’s latest business/consumer-oriented “phablet.” Equipped with a stylus for slicker note-taking, doodling, ...

Google Pixel 5 camera preview

Google today announced its latest smartphone, the Google Pixel 5. Unsurprisingly, the device runs the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 11, but in terms of design it’s closer to the second-tier Pixel ...

Audio matters in smartphones and here’s why

These days smartphone makers like to boast about their devices’ big screens and the number and quality of cameras their particular models have. But one thing that often gets overlooked is the sound quality. That’s ...

Why perceptual evaluation is essential for image quality testing

Objective lab-based image quality testing methods used by DXOMARK and many manufacturers and other organizations in the mobile and imaging industries have become more and more sophisticated over the years, allowing us to assess a ...

How do algorithms listen to music?

From copyright monitoring and cover song detection to classifications of all kinds (genre, style, mood, key, year, epoch), all the way to the music curation war waged by the music streaming titans, music identification is ...

Motorola Edge+ Audio test

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Motorola touts the Edge+, its first flagship smartphone in some years, using a very long list of superlatives, to wit: the biggest battery of any 5G smartphone (no charging needed for two full days); the ...

DXOMARK Audio survey

Smartphone manufacturers are working continuously to improve audio quality and features on their devices. But we would like to find out how you are using the audio equipment on your smartphone. We are therefore conducting ...

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