How to Choose a Good Mobile Phone Camera?

The great megapixel race may finally be slowing down in digital cameras, but it’s picking up steam in cell phones. In digital photography, the term “pixel” refers to the tiny dots that make up a photograph. The more pixels a photograph has, the higher its image resolution. A megapixel is equal to one million pixels.
Both Samsung’s Pixon 12 and Sony Ericsson’s Satio cell phones take 12-megapixel photos—meaning you can now buy cell phones with greater resolution than Canon’s top-of-the-line point-and-shoot digital cameras.
If this sounds a little crazy, that’s because it is, experts say. Few people need 12 megapixels, especially in a cell phone camera. The megapixel race has grown out of the megapixel myth, the false notion that a camera with higher resolution is always better. Manufacturers and retailers, eager to convince consumers that they need the latest camera and phone models, have pushed this faulty idea hard. Read the rest of this entry