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All smartphones offer camera zoom functionality of some kind, whether it’s via a telephoto/periscope camera, hybrid zoom tech, or a purely software-based approach. 

Regardless of the technology used, we wanted to find out whether you were happy with your phones’ camera zoom quality. So we posed this question last week, and here’s how you answered it.

We posted this poll on September 9, with almost 1,500 votes tallied until now. The winner by a single vote was the “no” camp, with 34.43% of respondents saying they weren’t happy with their phones’ camera zoom quality. By comparison, 34.36% of surveyed readers said they were indeed happy with their phones’ zoom quality.

Meanwhile, 31.2% of respondents felt that their phones’ zoom quality was merely okay. In other words, just under two-thirds of all polled readers felt there was room for improvement when it came to their phones’ zoomed-in results.

For what it’s worth, we’ve also seen a slowdown in brands adopting telephoto cameras in the upper-mid range and affordable flagship tiers. This is in stark contrast to 2019, when the likes of Xiaomi, Realme, and OnePlus all offered affordable flagships and/or mid-rangers with telephoto cameras.