Camera Phones Megapixels

Chances are you know someone with a camera phone and if you're lucky you may even own one. In Japan where camera phones are much more popular than the United States they have started to enter the megapixel range. If you've bought a digital camera you know that megapixels are one of the most important things to consider. As a rule of thumb the more megapixels the better.

However all you really want to know is when do I have to stop having two gadgets instead of one? Sorry but that's not going to happen for a few years anyway. First look at the three photos below. All three were taken within minutes of each other on the same day of the same subject.

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The one on the left with the Motorola V220 with a 1.3 megapixel camera. The middle with a Fuji A330 digital camera set a 1 megapixel. The last the digital camera again this time set at 3 megapixels. You can see how the two pictures even though both were taken a 1 megapixel are not the same quality. The cameras picture is much richer, clearer and of overall better quality. The picture on the left gets the job done, but isn't going to make its way into the family photo album.

As of the writing of this article Samsung has a just introduced a 5 megapixel camera in the Asian market where demand is much stronger. While the picture quality is good, you can achieve the same if not better quality from a less expensive digital camera. That said having a camera on your phone can still be a lot of fun and pretty useful too. You can send pictures immediately to friends and family on their phone, or even a picture of the restaurant where you are going to meet for dinner tonight. You're probably better of thinking of your cell phone as your phone first and your camera second.