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Xiaomi 14 Ultra

If you believe in the maxim that the best camera is the one you have with you, it’s worth making sure your smartphone is packed with as many megapixels as possible –and Xiaomi’s 14 Ultra has more than enough to get any phonetographer’s shutter finger twitching.

Its four Leica-branded lenses all guide light onto 50MP sensors, including a 1in one with astepless variable aperture to give you dreamy depth blur when you want it and all-over crispness when you don’t. There’s also a 12mm ultrawide snapper with a 5cm focusing distance for macro snaps, plus two telephoto lenses – 75mm and 120mm –both boosted by optical image stabilisation.

You can immediately admire your handiwork on the 6.73in AMOLED, with the 3200x1440 resolution and 3000 nits of peak brightness ensuring every shot really jumps out at your eyeballs. Processing power comes from a Snapdragon 8Gen 3and 16GB of RAM, with a 5000mAh battery to keep you clicking away all day and 512GB of storage giving you plenty of space to fill up with those snaps.