So far the majority of Lifehacker’s readers are not using their camera phone for serious photography. Instead, they find their camera handy to quickly grab snapshots of everyday situations where they don’t have their digital cameras at hand. Camera phones can be quite useful for those of you who don’t carry a digital camera around or to send a picture to another cell phone.
Sample picture taken with my Motorola RAZR V3c (San Jose Convention Center)
The quality of a camera phone is not very good in general, and it’s not just about the megapixels - cell phones are made very compact and can’t house a very large digital sensor. The lens on a camera phone is also of quite low quality, which can further increase the blurriness of a picture.
Until I read that poll, I didn’t realize I was carrying a camera phone with me all the time. While the image quality is not very good, it is still useful to grab pictures of friends and various events. A low quality picture is better than no picture at all.