[bluegirl]

Can anyone tell me the quality of a 1.3 megapixel camera on a cellphone?

[Hybr!d]

1.3 megapixel is pretty low, not great I would say.

[philthomas]

Also the lense is likely to be poor, compared to a digi-cam.

May be ok for viewing on PC, but print quality will likely be rubbish, especially above 6" x 4"

[Hybr!d]

In fact I had a 1.3 on my old Nokia 6200, it was unusable, even in good light.

[thingie2]

Yea, 1.3MP is bad quality on a digital camera, so 1.3MP is going to be terrible on a phone, in general, a phone camera will be worse quality than a digital camera with the same resolution (MP).

[mdlucian]

Now: If you have a camera of 1.3 Mp on a cell phone you certunatly don't expect to replace that camera from the cell a real camera from a real dedicated camera. By this I mean: the quality is poor, more noise is added to the photo, the dimensions of the photo is lower (1280x1024).
But, in some conditions (like: more light) you'll be able to make clear photos.
So, if you need a camera to make real photos: get a real camera.
If you need to make some instant photo and the quality is not that important to you, I think you'll find the camera attached on the phone really usefull.

[jill8beans2]

It is quite funny to me that people would expect their phone to actually take really good pictures; it's still a phone.

[Hybr!d]

Very true jill but some of these phones cost hundreds and hundreds, people just don't realise as they come free on contract, they are still expensive items to replace and also for that money they should take a good quality photo.