To test your camera on the desktop version of Skype, click your profile picture to access the Skype menu. Then, click "Settings" followed by "Audio & Video Settings." ...

Select the microphone, then choose Start test: As you talk, you should see the volume slider respond to your voice. Click Stop test, and Windows will tell you how loudly your voice is coming across.

On test, the Galaxy S4 's ISO, exposure and white balance all hit the mark, although "in low-light environments it sometimes struggled to hold focus when shooting," says Lee. The Samsung's menu ...

While shooting each test clip, we played the same audio clip through speakers to evaluate how well each phone picked up sound. In the first test video clip, we shot in bright indoor lighting.