Testing the camera on my new budget phone. Some shots of the river.

I usually don't use a phone to make pictures, and when I do, I don't tend to share them.
When I bought my old phone, a Moto Z that recently started getting confused about its battery (the phone would suddenly think it's battery was close to empty and do s shutdown, while after a restart, the battery would be up to 60% full when this happened), it cost more than twice of what my new budget phone (an Asus Zenfone max pro m1). My Moto Z only ever shot halfway decent pictures in perfect lighting circumstances, and even then, any kind of lowered exposure time pictures were never satisfactory, not even with perfect lighting. So at half the prize, I wasn't expecting anywhere acceptable pictures when, on a cloudy and gray day, I shot the below test shots of the river near my house.

Think next thing to try I think, the next sunny day, is testing if this phone gives me any halfway decent animal photography pictures. While a phone will never replace a real camera IMHO, I think it is good to find out exactly what the possibilities and limitations of this phone are.