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I also miss my A920 - it had a great camera in it! No phone I've had since has been as good. The TP camera is better (imho) than any HTC phone I've has, as well as my Q and 800w. I think smartphone always get the camera short stick. One thing to try is to take the pictures in better light when you can. I realize that this isn't always (or even often) possible, but the quality of all low-end cameras (which is all cell phone cameras to me) is greatly improved outdoors during the daytime, or even by putting your subject in a little better light. I've even noticed a modest improvement using the flash on the TP as a fill-in flash. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trading in my D80 anytime soon, but there is a certain convenience to the phone camera.

I've been wondering lately, what with good quality, small point-and-shoot cameras readily available from well-known camera manufacturers, why one of them hasn't teamed up with a phone company to make a phone that is really just a camera with some phone parts. Lots of new point-and-shoot cameras have touch screens now, so why not just partner up with a company who can put the phone parts together with it, and have a high-quality camera phone. Heck, they've got to do something new - most point-and-shoot lenses can't resolve much over 8MP, so making a 12+ MP point-and-shoot will mostly be a waste of time.