Advice needed - good mid-range Android smartphone camera

One more thing to keep in mind: the 48MP, 64MP, and larger resolution are likely “Quad Bayer” (or other trademark names depending on vendor) sensors. Though the sensor sizes are quite nice with these (e.g. 1/1.7") and should give decent dynamic range in their binning modes (12MP, 16MP etc.), I’m not aware of any phone that’ll actually give you this binned DNG output even if they support Camera2API well. It seems they only provide a “remosaiced” one with possible artifacts.