GSMArena ran a blind selfie‑video test on five phones, gathering votes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and its own poll. The contest highlighted Samsung’s Galaxy A37 as the clear winner, beating high‑end flagships despite its modest €300 price tag. Readers praised the A37’s 4K footage for its clarity and stability and that captured real world scenes.

The A37 relies on a 12MP sensor and the Exynos 1480 chipset, a platform Samsung has refined over the past year. In contrast, the newer Exynos 1680 in the Galaxy A57 did not translate into a higher vote share, suggesting software tuning plays a larger role than raw hardware for video recording consumers today.

Samsung’s flagship S26 Ultra, priced near €970, surprisingly lagged, drawing few votes and earning criticism for its 12MP ISOCELL sensor’s underwhelming performance. Even with phase‑detection autofocus, the Ultra’s image processing appeared misaligned, a reminder that flagship status does not guarantee selfie‑video supremacy for users today and reveals the importance of software optimization in consumer devices.

Meanwhile, Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra and vivo X300 Ultra earned third and fourth places, each struggling with new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processors that have yet to fine‑tune selfie‑video pipelines. The exercise underscores how mid‑range models, when paired with mature chipsets, can outperform expensive flagships in specific use cases for modern content creators and social.