I couldn't agree more. When it comes down to it, the best camera is the one that you are going to use. Yes, that is obviously the intention of the camera, but what I mean is that having a multi-thousand dollar camera that you rarely carry around because it is cumbersome is not of much value, despite its "potential" resolution. If you carry a pocket camera around with you, and you use it frequently, then that is the best camera to have. Even the iPhone, as demonstrated here, is capable of producing beautiful images with feeling in them; you just have to have the thing with you and use it. Sure, not every camera can make a 40"x60" print, but then again how many of your images do you ever enlarge that much? Most of us stay relatively small, and all the modern digital cameras will do perfectly fine for what you will do with it. You'll never find the techie sites including this in their in their reviews, and you could spend your time analyzing features and specs until an entire new generation of digital cameras has been released. But, then again, you wouldn't be taking any photographs, would you? No. So, stop obsessing over resolution. Stop worrying that you have to get a camera that looks impressive. Just get something, carry it around with you, and use it.
Here are some further examples of photographs taken with cell phone cameras:
