PC World - USA (2020-02)

FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 81

incredibly quickly, Recents is loaded with
screens, and hooking it up to a monitor via
DeX doesn’t slow it down at all. I hear your
groans—no phone needs that much RAM—
and that may be true today. But I expect most
people will keep their $1,150 phones for at
least three years, and in 2022, a little extra
RAM will go a long way.

BASE STORAGE: S10+
The past few years have seen rapidly declining
storage costs, so much so that now even
Apple is offering a minimum of 64GB of
space in all iPhones. But while you can get up
to a terabyte of internal storage inside some
phones, I’m still a bit more practical. The
sweet spot is the base Galaxy
S10+, with 128GB of storage
and an expandable memory
card slot. Its one of the few
remaining phones to still
feature a storage slot (even the
smaller Note 10 ditched it),
and like the headphone jack,
I’m going to miss it when it’s
gone for good.

FRONT CAMERA
SPECS: PIXEL 4
Front cameras don’t usually
get a lot of attention, but with
so many selfies floating around
Instagram, it’s just as important
as the rear camera. They’re all

very similar, but the Pixel 4 ekes out a win

here. Even without the dual-cam setup of the

Pixel 3, the Pixel 4’s front camera excels, with

a wide 90-degree field of view, f/2.0 aperture

and 8MP sensor. That’s slightly narrower than

the Pixel 3’s 97-degree FOV, but wider than

most other phones out there, including the

dual-selfie-cam S10+, which maxes out at 80

degrees.

REAR CAMERA SPECS:

ONEPLUS 7T PRO

Before we get into the ability to take good

pics, let’s talk about camera hardware. Triple

cameras are officially a thing after 2019, and

no other phone embraced it quite like the

OnePlus went all out with its camera sensors this year.