So the end of the year is quickly approaching us and that means no more major smartphones
are probably gonna hit the market.
So I decided to take six of arguably the best smartphones of 2019 to find out which one
takes the best selfie.
Now on the left hand side, I have Huawei P30 Pro it's not the Mate 30 Pro, it's not available
here in Canada.
I have the 11 Pro, LG G8X ThinQ, terrible name, Note 10 plus, OnePlus 7T and the Pixel
4 XL.
Now before I show you this video I just want to say I apologize I had to use myself for
taking the selfies.
I wish I had someone more attractive which means you're probably gonna have nightmares
for the rest of your life.
So the first photo is indoors under regular lighting conditions I wanted to see which
phone would handle the best with lightning directly above.
P30 Pro slightly reddish hues on the lips and on my skin tones.
There's a bit of face smoothening happening but not as aggressive compared to previous
Huawei devices.
Lots of oversharpening going on in the beard but overall I’m pretty happy with its performance.
iPhone 11 Pro, this is odd because usually it takes a good selfie and this one just completely
messed up the white balance.
It made me look a little bit too green like I'm dying from eating too much broccoli which
I don't think is possible.
Skin tones look good.
There's not any overexposure but I don't like the white balance in this photo.
LG G8 ThinQ X, which I'll never say that name again after this time looks awful!
No, it is not water damaged.
Yes, I did clean the front facing camera.
This is what it looks like when you take a selfie.
Next up, we have the Note 10 Plus did a really good job.
You will notice though, it does a lot of skin smoothing.
So the wrinkles around my face are a lot smoother compared to other cameras in this picture.
Colour Profile is good overall I'm very happy with the photo.
OnePlus 7T, I don't think it was the worst one out of the bunch it did okay?
Overall, I'm happy with it, but it looks dull in comparison to the others.
And last up we have the Pixel 4 XL, I think it probably came in second place here after
the Note 10 Plus but overall it did a good job with exposure.
So first up is the P30 Pro it looks a little bit flat, a lot more skin smoothing going
on.
Beard is a little bit over sharpened, background is completely blown out.
Definitely not the best selfie out of the bunch.
iPhone 11 Pro significantly better than the previous photo.
The skin tones look good.
You can see my shirt properly you can see the highlight roll off.
It did a significantly better job with the background.
It's not overexposed.
You can actually see inside of the window.
LG G8, no idea what is going on here?
It's just not a good front-facing camera.
Note 10 plus it looks good, but it's definitely over-exaggerated.
It looks like a bunch of people went to the party and they decided to go into Lightroom
and just crank up the saturation to 1000.
OnePlus 7T.
It's not bad.
I don't think it's the best one but it's not that bad considering the price of this smartphone.
Pixel 4 XL.
I think this is probably tied for second place with the iPhone 11.
Some might actually think the Pixel 4 is better and that's fine.
This is subjective, but the Pixel 4 does a really good job with my skin tones.
My beard looks nice and clean the colors on my shirt actually look better than the iPhone
11 Pro and it also did a good job of exposing the background.
Now we're moving into a dark setting and a lot of these cameras struggle because they
don't have a night mode.
P30 Pro is significantly increasing the skin smoothness to compensate and oversharpening
this photo like crazy and because of that you get a picture that's not noisy but you're
just losing so much detail you can barely see the hairs in my beard the shirt looks
completely black.
It's workable but it's probably not the best approach to this photo.
iPhone on the other hand is taking the opposite approach, all it's doing is keeping that detail
but instead cranking up the ISO completely which is introducing a lot of noise into the
photo.
LG G8 don't know what you're smoking over there buddy, but yeah, it looks like I have
jaundice.
Now Samsung Galaxy Note 10 plus this has a night mode, so I use night mode on this phone
as you can see it looks better than the other previous three photos.
OnePlus 7T still doing good.
I think it did a great job just like the P30 Pro it is over smoothing my skin a bit and
cranking up the sharpness and with that just like the P30 Pro you're losing some of that
detail.
Last up, which I think is the best one out of the bunch is the Pixel 4 XL because it
has night sight just like the Galaxy Note 10 to take front facing photos and yes it's
slightly overexposed on the sides of my cheek but I think it provides the best balance out
of the bunch.
Now we're back outdoors again for a little portrait mode Huawei p30 does a decent job
of not blowing up the background still slightly overexposed, but not as bad as a couple of
the other photos here.
Skin tones look good.
I think this is probably the best picture from the Huawei phone in this entire video
so far.
I'd be pretty happy with it.
The blur in the background is not as drastic compared to the other phone, so some might
argue this looks a lot more natural.
iPhone skin tones look great but it's definitely way too blown out in the background it just
didn't do a good job of exposing this photo.
LG G8 what's going on buddy did you invite your friends over have a little bit too much
to drink?
I mean, my skin looks great but you just got excited with that sky completely blew it out.
Note 10 Plus it went back to the party boosted up the saturation again smoothed out the skin.
I think it looks great using live focus, it doesn't look as natural as some of the other
pictures but overall it did a decent job of exposing this photo correctly.
OnePlus 7T, I think it actually looks really good yes there's some skin smoothing going
on in the beard, it can be a bit sharper but out of the bunch here, it did a better job
of exposing the background of this photo.
And finally Pixel 4 XL, I think it looks the best out of the bunch with the Note 10 Plus
coming in a close second.
It did the best of exposing the background, the skin tones look good look sharp.
And finally we have the front facing video.
I'm just gonna talk about the three best ones, 11 Pro Note 10 plus and Pixel 4 XL, those
are the three that are doing the best job of trying to keep the background properly
exposed.
The G8 no idea where what's going on there?
Way too much oversharpening, I'm a little bit red, it's like it's just been smoking
too much crack.
OnePlus 7T, actually doing a pretty good job!
Better than the G8 and slightly better than the P30 Pro.
So that pretty much wraps up my front facing selfie test with some of the best phones of
2019.
I think the Note 10 Plus, Pixel 4 XL and the iPhone 11 Pro are the three top candidates.
I think the Pixel 4 probably did the best overall, but at the end of the day, it really
comes down to your personal preference because a lot of this is very subjective.
I do know that the P30 Pro, definitely the G8 and the OnePlus 7T has a bit more to work
in terms of improving that quality so hopefully we'll see better results in the next phone
when they come out on the market.
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