The Nokia Lumia 920 won Gizmodo's Best Smartphone Camera kudos on Monday, Feb. 18.
The 920 beat out four other high-quality smartphones: Apple iPhone5, Samsung Galaxy S3, Google Nexus 4 and the recently unveiled Blackberry Z10.
Gizmodo tested each camera under common lighting situations, in a fairly controlled environment, from the same location and with the same focal point.
Though the 920 won "overall," the Blackberry Z10 took the award for Best Low-Light With Flash Shot. The Galaxy S3 won for Best Indoor Portrait.
The Nexus 4 came in last place overall, while the 920's first-place prize is blazoned with the note: "Using only the automatic setting, it gets an accurate exposure and decent image in all shooting conditions. You can't beat it."
Gizmodo mentioned earlier in its announcement that its truly favorite camera comes on a smartphone the site believes no one would buy, Symbian phone Nokia 808 PureView.
Ironically, the site adds that "HTC's flagships come with rubbish cameras," hence why the group didn't "bother with those this time around."
The irony stems from the fact that one day later — Tuesday, Feb. 19 — immediately after getting their hands on an HTC One at the launch event in London, the folks at Gizmodo had this to say about the aforementioned "rubbish" HTC cameras:
"The camera, from what we saw, was pretty fast. It blurred when taking a photo of a man doing a flip off of a pillar in a dark room (don't ask), but you could make out that it was a human being, and that's at the upward end of what you're going to be asking your camera to do. The image also not grainy at all, which was pretty impressive given the lighting circumstances."
Gushing that the HTC One is "exactly how you're supposed to build a phone," it's clear which phone has already been earmarked as the frontrunner for next season's Gizmodo smartphone camera award.
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