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Whenever I’m covering a new smartphone and see a 2Mp macro camera listed among the specs, it makes me very frustrated. Why? Because even before testing it, I can pretty much guarantee that it’ll be functionally useless. On every single phone with a 2Mp macro that I’ve ever reviewed (and there have been quite a few), the lens has added nothing to the overall experience. Instead of improving the quality of close-up shots, most macro lenses produce a blurry, unusable mess, even when within the recommended distance. Granted, this is most common on budget smartphones, where the number of cameras of…

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