[personZ]

"Splitting the difference between candlelight and daylight, around 6 years of technology has made up for the massive difference in the size of the lenses and sensors between the best phone and the $2,000 DSLRs."

"Phil Askey from DPReview described it as “the absolute best in its class, with the best image quality, lowest high sensitivity noise, superb build quality and excellent price.” He described the “Excellent resolution”, the “Noise free ‘silky smooth’ images”, with “very low noise levels even at ISO 1600.” The EOS 10D ran rings around the film that we’d been using for 50 years in terms of clarity and freedom from grain.

Yet it’s comprehensively humbled by modern phones. The iPhone out-shoots it, and the Nokia out-resolves it, all by huge margins."

Should I continue? Did you actually read it? Did you just rush to it to find a confirmation that SLRs are better? Of course they are better. Its point is that the same SLRs we lauded as extraordinary a mere decade ago -- and in some cases much more recently -- are now humbled, badly, by standard smartphones. Do you think the SLR owner of a decade ago was saying "yes, my device is junk. Just sticking with the form factor until it gets decent."?

As to the chart that you seemed to take offense at, its point was demonstrating the extremely rapid improvement in smartphone cameras. Each year the camera is significantly better than the year before, still in the tiny, integrated little module.