Apple has announced the new iPhone 4 with a slew of new hardware and software updates. Even with great feature updates such as the Retina Display technology and FaceTime I can’t help but think the new camera will have the most lasting impact on the world of technology. According to Flickr, there were over 17,000 photos uploaded yesterday to the site just from the iPhone 3GS. I’m not sure what the stats are for the amount of TwitPics uploaded per day but I’m sure the number is even larger. All this to say that cell phone pictures are ubiquitous and continue to grow.

The other constant with camera phone pics is they generally suck.  I looked at the new Sprint EVO’s camera pics and videos the other day and I commented to Pat Sun that was not impressed at all. Camera phones continue to push megapixels over sensor quality which has lead to larger pictures with the same crappy quality. I don’t need to be able to zoom further into crap if the over all image is crap to begin with. That’s why Steve Jobs hit it on the head today with the new 5MP camera phone built into the iPhone 4.  This sample pic from the Apple iPhone page made me say wow.   Supposedly the picture is straight out of the iPhone 4 with no editing.  They didn’t go for more megapixels, they went for a higher quality sensor.  Finally, someone got it right and the whole world will see camera phone pictures in a better light.

Image Source:  Apple.com iPhone 4 Gallery