[ColdStream]

I do like the idea of focused intentional hardware. Yes, it doesn't have the convenience of smart phones but it doesn't mean you have to give them up just to have a digital camera. Both have their place.

I also really like the image quality on a lot of dedicated digital cams, I suspect it is because they don't have to have the sensor and lens crushed into a 9mm thick device. That can do a lot more for image quality.

[cellular]

I think picture quality on my droidX is better than the smoothed out filtering on current cameras since 2018 or so.

The old ones did compression but nothing like this awful mess current cameras do.

I looked at pictures from droidX era and was amazed how clear zoomed-in faces were.

Now those older cams needed better light but that is a different issue.

[cellular]

The older pics were smaller in MBs too!