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Some folks will sacrifice everything for megapixels. They have been dying to have a good camera on hand, even when they leave their digital SLR at home. Although none of these phones is ready to compete with even $300-400 digital cameras, they do take better than average snapshots. And since your shutterbug will have his cameraphone with him all the time, he'll be taking many more interesting pictures. The high powered sensors in these cameraphones shorten battery life a bit, but they're such good phones that they're worth recharging a bit more often.

Cingular: Sony Ericsson S710a
(Cingular swears the S710a will be available this month, however in the event it is not, the Nokia 7610, a megapixel smartphone, is available for Cingular through Nokia USA and should be in Cingular stores as well.)

T-Mobile: Sharp TM-150

Sprint: Audiovox PM-8920
(Even though this phone has a megapixel camera - with a flash and macro setting no less - it takes the least impressive pictures out of this bunch. We hope Sprint has some better cameraphones soon.)

Verizon: Kyocera KX2

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