Summary:
Samsung's newbie is more like a digital camera with smartphone functions than just a cameraphone
Most smartphones' cameras rely on digital zoom which isn’t really zooming at all, it’s just cropping a pic tighter into the existing data – which means pixelly pics and an overall loss of clarity.
The recently launched Nokias Lumia 1020 countered the loss of detail from a digital zoom; by taking pics at a whopping 41megapixels. And lots of smartphone photographers are happy with that. But who wants to have to take photos that are 41megapixels big all the time? It’s a waste of memory.
