We live in a world where selfie is in the dictionary and as such no self-respecting smartphone manufacturer can afford to ignore people’s desire to take pictures of themselves. It’s with that in mind that we’ve curated this list of the best smartphone cameras for selfies.
This list includes a range of handsets from numerous manufacturers, which just serves to highlight how important these cameras are to smartphone makers, with everything from the affordable OnePlus Nord to the dual-screen Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra and the massive megapixel count of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra making the list – plus a number of other top selfie snappers for good measure.
Keep this page bookmarked, because we'll be updating it with the latest and greatest selfie snappers as and when new phones launch, but for now, as of September 2021, these are the five best smartphones for selfies money can buy - and they're all brilliant phones in other ways too.
Apple almost always includes great front-facing cameras on its phones, and with the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max being its top handsets at the time of writing, they’re the best options.
On paper though their selfie cameras might not sound that special. After all, the two phones just have a 12MP f/2.2 sensor. But they can take high-quality shots, with a depth sensor allowing for brilliant portraits, and night mode meaning that selfies even look good when the light is bad.
Apple has also packed the selfie cameras on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max full of high-tech features, like Smart HDR 3 and Deep Fusion, which combined can bring scenes to life by refining highlights and shadows, and bringing out other details in images. There’s also Dolby Vision, which means you can shoot video on the selfie camera in the same format as film studios use.
This tech all extends to the rear cameras too, which include a 12MP main, 12MP telephoto, and 12MP ultra-wide snapper, along with a LiDAR scanner for judging depth. And the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max also have excellent OLED screens for viewing selfies on.
The Oppo Find X3 Pro is a lesser known phone with a lot going for it, including a 32MP front-facing camera. That’s a high megapixel count so that it allows for detailed snaps that look good even when viewed large.
The snapper’s not exceptional beyond that, but in a world where most smartphones neglect their selfie cameras that’s enough for it to stand out.
The Oppo Find X3 Pro also benefits from a quad-lens rear camera, including an innovative microlens snapper, a big and sharp 6.7-inch 1440 x 3216 AMOLED screen (great for viewing selfies and other snaps on), and high-end power. Indeed, this is a flagship through and through, so almost every aspect of it should impress.
The OnePlus Nord isn’t one of the company’s flagship handsets but it is arguably the best of its phones for selfies, as it has a dual-lens selfie camera.
And it’s a high-spec one too with a 32MP main sensor and an 8MP ultra-wide one for when you want to fit other people in your photo as well – or just get more of the landscape in.
Plus, the OnePlus Nord also has four cameras on the back, and a sizeable 6.44-inch 1080 x 2400 AMOLED screen for viewing your snaps on. It’s also a very affordable way to get a 5G phone.
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is – price aside – one of the very best smartphones you can buy, and that extends to its selfie camera, which has a higher megapixel count than almost any rival at 40MP.
So you can take seriously high resolution shots, and you can also use it to record video in up to 4K quality at up to 60fps.
The rear camera experience on the S21 Ultra also impresses, in fact, arguably this phone also has the best rear camera setup of any handset at the time of writing, so whatever type of photographer you are, it’s a top choice.
You get a quad-lens setup, with a 108MP main lens and the capability to zoom in by 100x (though of course beyond 10x that’s almost entirely digital).
The screen too is great. It’s an enormous 6.8-inch 1440 x 3200 one, and your selfies will look absolutely stunning on it.
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The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is a phone of utter excess and that’s especially true when it comes to the cameras, as you can probably tell by looking at the ludicrously large camera block on the back.
But this camera block also makes it one of the very best phones for selfies, as it includes a tiny 1.1-inch secondary screen which can be used – among other things – as a viewfinder to frame selfies so you can use the main cameras for them.
That means you have access to a 50MP main, 48MP telephoto (with 5x optical zoom), and 48MP ultra-wide snapper for selfie purposes. You’ll probably mostly be using the 50MP camera here, and that one additionally benefits from a much larger sensor than you’ll find on most smartphone cameras, which can let more light in and potentially deliver better shots.
These are all high-end cameras, if not quite the best around, but they certainly have the front-facing snappers on phones beat, though it’s worth noting that the small size of the secondary screen means you need to hold the phone quite close to you to effectively frame selfies. If you’d rather use the actual front-facing camera though then that’s no slouch either at 20MP.
So there you have it. These are the five best smartphones for selfies you can buy right now and they’re all strong handsets in other ways too.
From the iPhone 12 Pro range through to the Oppo Find X3 Pro, the OnePlus Nord, and the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, with the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra ranking as the very best smartphone for selfies.
Any of these phones will serve you well, but the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is the one to opt for if selfies are your top priority, while the iPhone 12 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra are arguably the best all-rounders, and the OnePlus Nord is well worth considering if you’re on a tighter budget.
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