Blind shootout revealed: iPhone 7 vs. Galaxy S7 vs. Xperia XZ vs. LG G5

17 October 2016
If only smartphone manufacturers would go in sync with those flagship launches. But they don't and come fall we have the new iPhone, as usual, and the Sony Xperia XZ this time, joining the spring children Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5.

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  • R
  • RcrdCastro
  • BHH
  • 17 Oct 2016

C (obvious xperia noise) thought would be fixed by now.
A (galaxy s7 better in low lights)
B (iPhone best quality for the MP)
D (LG)

    • O
    • Oushi
    • D7R
    • 17 Oct 2016

    i want to know why the hell Sony still using f/2.0 on their cams !! i really can't believe
    that the hardware manufacture for all smartphone cam can't make software for their own hardware !

      • R
      • RcrdCastro
      • BHH
      • 17 Oct 2016

      C (obvious xperia noise) thought would be fixed by now.
      A (galaxy s7 better in low lights)
      B (iPhone best quality for the MP)
      D (LG)

        Takeaway is, one that is smear-monster = iCrap 7

          • g
          • greg
          • 3ZH
          • 17 Oct 2016

          i see that this site continues useless comparisons. Question -if u want to compare apples to oranges don't u think i would be right to stretch images from lower resolution sensors to the physical resolution of the biggest sensor in the whole comparison? And now to compare beauty of the cropped images.... what ? samsung produce shixxxxx ty images?? buuuuuu impossible. Samsung has to win ALWAYS no matter what!

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            • AnonD-441865
            • 7t$
            • 17 Oct 2016

            photo a: 10.5MP Galaxy s5
            photo b: 11.6MP lg g5
            photo c: iphone 7
            photo d: 8.7MP Sony xperia XZ

              • ?
              • Anonymous
              • L4E
              • 17 Oct 2016

              A = iphone 7
              B = LG G5
              C = sony xz
              D = galaxy s7

              ez pz

                • ?
                • Anonymous
                • gxZ
                • 17 Oct 2016

                why cropps is little than others on xperia xz ?!! its view angle is more than others and you crop the objects with less size ?! it is not good idea !!

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                  • AnonD-591228
                  • QAV
                  • 17 Oct 2016

                  In addition to other comments that were made, we don't know what sort of shooting modes were used for either camera. Different settings can wildly affect the outcome of a picture's quality regardless of phone used. If the most basic auto mode was used on each phone, that's fair, but it should be stated in the review. Bear in mind that the best photo in a given situation is sometimes had with careful manual setting tweaking.

                    • R
                    • Reza 76
                    • a3B
                    • 17 Oct 2016

                    I m sure that:
                    A: lg g5
                    B: samsung s7
                    C: xperia xz
                    D: iphone 7
                    You can recognize the camera phone frome the video detials , color and noise of the pictures. The best shot in low light condition in term of color is image A from lg g5. Xperia xz has noisy images then is phone c. The video detials in video no B is much better than the others then phone B is s7. And phone D is iphone 7.

                      • ?
                      • Anonymous
                      • 46n
                      • 17 Oct 2016

                      I must be the only one who doesn't care about camera

                        • D
                        • D4t2ill4
                        • bJG
                        • 17 Oct 2016

                        Feels like B has more details but the colour is not natural. A is somewhat same level of details as B but has a more neutral colour. I guess A is iPhone and B is Samsung. Though, it would be batter if there was a high quality photo from dslr as a reference would be good.

                          • m
                          • mc.g
                          • mFq
                          • 17 Oct 2016

                          HTC-10 !? why not ? (HTC-10 wins! -OR- google-pixel-phones)

                            • m
                            • mc.g
                            • mFq
                            • 17 Oct 2016

                            a - iphone, b - lg, c - sony, d - samsung

                              • D
                              • AnonD-440360
                              • 7ki
                              • 17 Oct 2016

                              A=iPhone
                              B=Samsung
                              C=Sony
                              D=Lg
                              Surely Samsung winssss. Here too

                                What crappy camera you used for C? B looks great than A are good

                                  • D
                                  • AnonD-553330
                                  • PZL
                                  • 17 Oct 2016

                                  Can the GSMarena team kindly explain why the htc10 was left out , not competetive enough ?

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                                    • Well
                                    • Lbn
                                    • 17 Oct 2016

                                    The winner is between iPhone 7 and S7 :-)

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                                      • cumulonimbus
                                      • 0Ck
                                      • 17 Oct 2016

                                      Only DxOMark I trust nothing more.

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                                        • AnonD-599013
                                        • L90
                                        • 17 Oct 2016

                                        In good light, all the photos look excellent, but B looks best overall. Given the "C" photo takes most time to fully load, I suspect it's XZ, totally useless.

                                        Nonetheless, the Lumia 950/950XL is still clearly ahead of all these in terms of photographic prowess.