It makes the camera focus on your subect perfectly and helps to avoid blurred shots. If the photo you are taking is going to be actually used for something then you need autofocus. In this case megapixels do not matter, if your phone doesnt have autofocus, the photos will look terrible. It'll be suprising to see how many camera phones dont have autofocus so just dont assume make sure your phone does.
2). Dual LED or Xenon flash:
Seeing that most photos from a camera phone are taken in low light conditions i.e. parties, clubs etc, a high quality flash is essential. Standard LED just wont work, because they throw out less light than your camera's screen. The best type of flash Xenon, it produces a much brighter burst of light, which helps your camera phone take great photos even in the dark. But the weakness of Xenon is that it wastes battery to quickly and it takes time to reset. In between the two types of flashes is the Dual LED flash. It is twice as better as normal LED flash but 1/1000th that of Xenon. It has the advantage of being able to run continuosly so it can be used for videos and still photos. It's alot cheaper than Xenon.
3). White Balance, Exposure, and Preset Scene Modes:
If you prefer to take pictures out in the sun, you would need a camera phone that will let you tweak white balance or exposure settings becuase if it doesnt than over exposed shots will tend to look completely washed out. Make sure you that least your camera phone includes the cloudy, sunny, incandescent and fluorescent settings.
4). Image stabilization:
Image stabilization is needed if you do not want the photos that are blurred. Camera phones produce poor results if they are placed on a tripod or the camera taker i.e. They would rarely produce a good pic...The result of you taking a picture would be a shaky hand taking blurry pics.
Image Stabilization cant prevent blurred pics completely, but it can do a great job in the minimizing the blur. If you want good photos check that your camera phone has image stabilization in the specs.
5). Mobile Gizmos!
A camera pjhone is not just a camera it is also a phone, so that means you can upload your pic to different sharing sites as well as social network sites such as Facebook. Your camera phone to be able to be a great phone it should include:
Fast Internet Conenction. Wifi and 3G.
Built-in support for image sharing Web sites
An easy to use user interface.
You might also want automatic geo-tagging, so that it can stamp the location you took the pic at, with the time and date it got taken. But this is not a necessary feature, it is only if you need it. Other features that you may want our features such as photo editing, ten to be gimmicky at best- there are alot of thigns you can do on a 3" screen! So these things are hard to get in the one phone, so dont really worry about these. Features you might want and arent easy to get are features such as: red-eye deductio and smile detectition but they are not important.
6). MEGAPIXELS!
Megazpixels were purposely left till last, because people obsess about them too much. A good quality 3 megapixels camera will take way better pictures that a poor quality 8 megapixels camera. If you are looking for good quality pictures you should buy a camera phone with a minimum of 5 megapixels camera. If you plan to buy any smaller your pictures wont be able to capture enough detail. They'll be alright but not great. But if you find a 5 megapixel camera and it doesnt have the five feautures shown about, avoid it!
Going up the scale, 8 megapixels has become more popular in 2009, while Sony Ericsson and Samsung now have 12 megapixel camera phones in the shape of the Sony Ericsson Satio and the Samsung Pixon 12. Both of these phones are pitched as high-end camera phones and so have a wealth of camera-related extras, making either of them excellent choices. Whether you need 12 megapixels, though, depends on what you want to do with your camera phone. If you’re looking for perfect pics, you’d be better get a digital camera. However, the newer 12 megapixel camera phones are at least as good as low end camera phones from a few years ago, so if that’s the level of quality you’re after, then the 12 megapixellers will do you nicely.
The minium set of features you need for a great camera phone are the following:
8 megapixels (5 at a pinch)
auto-focus
image stabilization
a nice range of preset scene modes (and the more manual control you have over exposure and white balance settings, the better)
xenon or dual LED flash
good quality optics
fast Internet connection easy to use interface
The phone I would want....for my daily use and for a good camera is LG GD900!
It has all the features I need and I want...=]
