{"id":30279,"date":"2025-07-29T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30279\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:38:08","slug":"camera-battle-300-phone-knocks-out-1870-phone-and-samsung-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30279\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera battle: $300 phone knocks out $1,870 phone and Samsung wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final round was divided into two sections:\u00a0daylight and nighttime. In the daylight test, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a> bagged 54% of the votes, leaving the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and Vivo X200 Ultra with 4% and 42%, respectively. In nighttime photography, however, the tables turned\u00a0\u2014 the Xiaomi 15 Ultra won with 73% of the votes, with the Samsung and Vivo devices recording 22% and 4%, respectively. <\/p>\n

Xiaomi’s victory in the nighttime test wasn’t an accident. Though its telephoto and ultrawide lenses struggled with low-light shots in our tests<\/a>, the main camera thrives in the low-light conditions as revealed in our review<\/a>. This is largely due to the Xiaomi 15 Ultra\u2019s large 1\/0.98″ LYT-900 sensor, which is bigger than the 1\/1.28″ LYT-818 and the 1\/1.3″ ISOCELL HP2 sensors in the Vivo X200 Ultra and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. <\/p>\n

Here is how the devices ranked in the end:<\/p>\n

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (44% of votes)Vivo X200 Ultra (29% of the votes)Xiaomi 15 Ultra (27% of votes)<\/p>\n

NB: These blind tests involved the Versus community \u2014 not professional photographers. They were also very limited\u00a0\u2014 involving only the main camera and, for the most part, daylight photos. For a more grounded comparison, refer to detailed analyses like the one we made comparing the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, Oppo Find X8 Ultra, Vivo X200 Ultra, and Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final round was divided into two sections:\u00a0daylight and nighttime. In the daylight test, the Samsung Galaxy S25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,234,28700,28701,28703,235,28702,227,203,233,226,236,232,228,229,105,231,230],"class_list":["post-30279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benchmarks","tag-camera-test","tag-cmf-phone-2-pro-camera","tag-galaxy-s25-ultra-camera","tag-graphics-card","tag-iphone-16-pro-max-camera","tag-laptop","tag-mobile","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-processor","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}