I'm about to get a new phone, and it's been my experience that phones don't take the best pictures. I'm not a photographer, but I want good pictures without having to carry an extra digital camera with me.

Phone Arena recently did a comparison of just that -

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Verizon-Camera-phone-Comparison-Q2-2007-review-r_1756.html

It's multiple pages, so you'll need to keep selecting the next page # at the bottom.

A VX8300 is pretty good...there are definitely better, but it's a good price and its pretty compact