Best Android ARCore Phones: List and Specs of Officially Supported Devices

If you are interested in the ARCore project, then we have the best Android ARCore Phones for you that are compatible.

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Google’s ARCore mixed-reality project for Android is in the news for a while now. The good news is that it is not confined to only Google Pixel devices. Below is a list of phones that can use ARCore apps. But before moving on to the Android ARCore phones let’s first know about the ARCore.

What is Google ARCore Project?

ARCore is an augmented reality platform for building augmented reality experiences to your mobile platform. With ARCore your mobile can understand the environment around you. ARCore uses three key points to integrate the virtual environment in the space near you. These are motion tracking, Environment understanding, and light estimation.

Motion tracking allows tracking the location of the phones relative to the surrounding near you. The Second, Environment understanding means to detect the size and location of surfaces. Also, to identify the alignment of the surfaces to each other like, horizontal, vertical or angled. Last, the light estimations allow the phone to sense the lighting conditions in the environment near you.

With the data from all three, Google creates an augmented reality near you. To track all three, Google uses your phones’ camera and sensors. ARCore is designed to work with a variety of Android devices that qualifies the necessary tests to run the Project ARCore. Your phone must have Android 7.0 Nougat or later and a list of ARCore compatible phones is given below.

ARCore’s understanding will let your phone place the objects and other information in a way that looks like it is a part of the real world. You can imagine a table right in front of you in a room taking the same space as it would in the real. You can move around the objects and see them from different angles and positions. Thus, your phone will create an augmented reality in the real world. With time, you will get to see augmented reality everywhere.

Now you know about Google’s ARCore platform, you must be curious to use this. So here is the list of Android phones that are compatible with ARCore as of now. You can download Google ARCore apps on them and feel the augmented reality in the real world. As of now, there are not many apps in the Android market that support ARCore. But Google has made ARCore open for developers and soon the market will be flooded with this exciting technology.

Best Android ARCore Phones: The List

As of now, there are more than thirty Android smartphones that support Google ARCore. But in this competitive market, not all of them are worth buying. So out of all the ARCore Android phones, we have filtered the best ones above which offer better value for money. Rest you will see it listed below in the table in the order of brand. Also, the best ARCore phones are not arranged in order of priority as all of them belongs to a different price category. You can pick the best one that comes in your budget.

Asus Zenfone AR Specifications
Display	5.7 inches Super AMOLED 1440 x 2560 pixels resolution 16:9 aspect ratio 515 PPI density 72.6% screen to body ratio
CPU	Snapdragon 821 Quad-core (2×2.35 GHz Kryo & 2×1.6 GHz Kryo)
GPU	Adreno 530
RAM	6/8 GB RAM
Storage	Internal: 64/128/256 GB External: microSD, up to 512 GB
Rear Camera	23 MP (f/2.0, 1/2.6″, 1µm), 4-axis OIS, 3x zoom, depth & motion tracking sensors
Front Camera	8 MP, f/2.0, 1080p
Operating System	Android 7.0 (Nougat)
Sensors	Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
Weight	170 g
Battery	3300 mAh

Google Pixel 2 Specifications
Display	5.0 inches AMOLED 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution 441 PPI density 67.9% screen to body ratio) 16:9 aspect ratio
CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo)
GPU	Adreno 540
RAM	4 GB RAM
Inbuilt Storage	64/128 GB, no card slot
Rear Camera	12.2 MP (f/1.8, 27mm, 1/2.6″, 1.4µm, Dual Pixel PDAF), OIS, laser autofocus
Front Camera	8 MP (f/2.4, 27mm, 1/3.2″, 1.4µm), 1080p
Operating System	Android 8.0 Oreo
Sensors	Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
Weight	143 g
Battery	2700 mAh

Google Pixel 2 XL Specifications
Display	6.0 inches P-OLED 1440 x 2880 pixels resolution 538 PPI density 18:9 aspect ratio 76.4% screen to body ratio
CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo)
GPU	Adreno 540
RAM	4 GB RAM
Inbuilt Storage	64/128 GB, no card slot
Rear Camera	12.2 MP (f/1.8, 27mm, 1/2.6″, 1.4µm, Dual Pixel PDAF),
Front Camera	8 MP (f/2.4, 25mm, 1/3.2″, 1.4µm), 1080p
Operating System	Android 8.0 (Oreo)
Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, and Fingerprint
Weight	175 grams
Battery	3520 mAh

Huawei P20 Specifications
Display	5.8 inches LTPS IPS LCD 1080 x 2240 pixels resolution 429 PPI density 18.7:9 aspect ratio 80.4% screen to body ratio
CPU	Hisilicon Kirin 970 Octa-core (4×2.4 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A53)
GPU	Mali-G72 MP12
RAM	4 GB RAM
Inbuilt Storage	128 GB, no card slot
Rear Camera	Dual: 12 MP (f/1.8, 27mm, 1/2.3″, 1.55µm, OIS) + 20 MP (f/1.6, 27mm), Leica optics
Front Camera	24 MP, f/2.0, 1080p
Operating System	Android 8.1 (Oreo) – EMUI 8.1
Sensors	Fingerprint, accelerometer, proximity, compass, color spectrum, gyro
Weight	165 g
Battery	Li-Po 3400 mAh

Best Android ARCore Phones: The List

1. Asus Zenfone AR

2. Asus Zenfone ARES

3. Google Pixel 2

4. Google Pixel 2 XL

5. Huawei P20

6. Huawei P20 Pro

7. LG G7 ThinQ

8. LG V35 ThinQ

9. OnePlus 6

10. Nokia 7 Plus

11. Nokia 8 Sirocco

12. Samsung Galaxy S9

13. Samsung Galaxy S9+

14. Mi Mix 2S

15. Mi 8

16. Google Pixel 3

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