Adrian Brentnall wrote:
The phone review sites I've seen don't seem to review the phone cameras
- other than to give a megapixel rating - so it's hard to know which
ones are better than others...?

I think if you're fishing around the cheap end of the pool the cameras
aren't much to write home about, so they don't review them very much.

I'd suggest looking at flagship phones from a few years ago - either used or
refurb. For instance, an iPhone or the Galaxy S or Galaxy Note ranges.
Here is a good source of refurb phones:
https://store.musicmagpie.co.uk/mobile-phones

- older phones like a Galaxy S5, Note 4 or iPhone 6 or SE are in the 100-200
pound bracket, and possibly cheaper on ebay.

Apple are good at keeping old-ish phones up to date, or you can install
LineageOS on some Android phones.

Theo