Why are 12-13 MP cameras on flagship smartphones better than the 48-64 MP cameras on mid range and budget smartphones?

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Basically every midrange or budget smartphone has atleast a 48 MP camera, while most of the flagships have about 13 MP camera. Then why are photos from the flagships better? Is it because of image processing or quality of lens or something else? And which specifications to look out for when buying a low cost phone?

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Because the number of dots you read is one tiny, tiny statistic about how a camera operates.

Lens quality and design, quality of each of those pixel sensors, the sensor range and sensitivity to each of the colours, post-processing performed on the camera chip and on the device itself, distances between lens and sensor and can the lens adjust/move itself and how far?, image stabilisation, …

It’s like saying “My car has 47 exhausts, why isn’t it faster than a Ferrari with only 1?”

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