Geekshow

I struggle to understand why cell phone manufacturers keep putting bigger and bigger photo sensors into mobile phones. The latest are up to 8 and 12 MP ! Why ? With the tiny lens on cell phones the images will suffer. I'd rather them focus on better internet browsers, better operating systems and interfaces. Any other views ?

It's nice to be able to take a quick picture on the run. And as long as they can do it cheap I'm not opposed to bigger and better cameras. However, I rarely ever use my camera, so it's not a big sticking poing for me. I'd actually rather have an LED flash on the phone than to get a slightly better camera. JMO.

I find I take more pictures with my phone than I do my camera. My phone's camera is a 3.2 and has a flash, but I hate the pics taken with the flash on. I guess that even though my camera is loads better than my phone, I use the phone because I always have it on me unlike the camera. If I'm going somewhere important of course I take my camera.

I don't really see the sense in the larger mega pixels though. How often do you need that anyway? The average person doesn't need more than – what – 6 maybe? An 8×10 pic printed only is 3-4 I think.

You don't always have your normal camera on you. You almost always have your cellphone on you. Maybe they should start putting cellphones in cameras instead?

Good zoom lenses are important. But the difference between 7x and 8x isn't. :)

Now, the question was why put higher megapixel cameras in cell phones? I agree, there is no need.

Now, if the question was why put better cameras in cell phones? That I want.

Like what was said earlier, I always have my cell phone with me. My iPhone has Facebook, so I can just upload directly to Facebook, or Flickr, or Photobucket or Picasa… wherever.

I can't do that with a camera. Even if I could, that's 2 pieces of technology that I don't want to carry around.

It's like this for me: I take pictures with my cell phone, but I take movies with my digital camera, and my camcorder sits on the shelf.