Use Your Phone Back in 2006 I owned a Sony Ericsson's Z520i mobile, this was a small clamshell phone with a fixed focus camera (VGA, 640x480 pixels, the size of photo above) with MP3 player. It had a little bar on top that I think was the aerial, it looked trendy at the time. The phone was completely white on the outside with a silver racing stripe, copied from the iPod I guess. Putting a camera in a phone really was a big leap forward for photography. Great, I had a camera in my pocket all the time. Initially I was very pleased with the photos, the screen on the phone was only about an inch square, so you could not really see the photo and any detail. On my PC they looked alright, on a bright day it took some good photos. Camera technology in phones has progressed at a phenomenal rate; the phone is now a top spec computer in your pocket. Resolution isn't the be-all and end-all of digital photography, a good quality lens still plays a big part. I took the above photo with my Sony Experia SP and tweaked it using Photoscape. The latest mobiles almost rival compact digital cameras, autofocusing, scene modes, xenon flash, smile detection and screens the same size as a camera (or bigger on such as the Samsung Galaxy Note). Storage capacity on microSD cards is already up to 64gb. For a "non-photographer" we have reached the point when their mobile is the only camera they need. The latest iPhone or Samsung "S" take very good photos and with an estimated 360 million smartphone users worldwide - that's a hell of a lot of photos!