[riverc0il]

I use a Canon A630 which while bulkier than your standard PNS has tons of awesome features and takes high quality photos. I have never seen good pictures from a cell phone camera. Cell phones have a long long way to go and it really doesn't matter how many MP cell phones offer if the pictures are grainy. MP is important if you want to crop and have good full sized pictures but quality is more important. Standard internet sizing for pics is around 800x600 and you need only slightly larger for desktop background sized. Even with cropping, not major reason for anything about 5 or 6 if you can get super quality.

It is kind of like zoom with camcorders. Really good 3ccd camcorders usually start around 10x zoom which is really all you need without a tripod. Entry models are going over 30x which is just ridiculous because it is almost impossible to hold a camcorder steady at that high zoom without a good tripod.