AVS - make up your own mind. There are plenty of threads on the forums with comparison pics (and there is a link to my review with vids and pictures in my sig). I personally love the phone, love the video, and am liking the camera more and more. it's no secret that in low-light situations it's not the best camera, but then again, how many cellphones really take that great of pictures? In regular light, the pictures are pristine. I am an avid shutterbug with my phone, i upload most of my pics to my moblog on textamerica, and it allworks for me very well. if you've got a 3MP digital cam, and you expect this to take equal pics, you're going to be dissappointed. if you're coming at it realizing that it's a freakin camera on a phone, with no autofocus and no optical zoom, and realize that it takes damn good video and pictures and you only have one thing to carry instead of two, you're going to like it just fine.