Sony Xperia Z2 named the best smartphone for photographers

BRILLIANT HUES: As well as being water resistant, the Z2 boasts the best combined stills and video photography of any smartphone currently on sale.

According to DxO Labs, the organisation that independently puts smartphones through their image-capturing paces in order to rank handsets purely on photographic ability, Sony's new flagship phone has set a new benchmark. 

With a DxOMark test score of 79 out of a possible 100, the phone — which was only launched in February at the Mobile World Congress and which boasts a 20.7-megapixel camera — has finally beaten the Nokia 808 PureView (a handset launched in 2012) into second place and puts the Z1 (the Z2's 2013 predecessor) into third place.