Tech myth - the more megapixels the better

Many persons including myself (at one point, long, long ago) were fooled into believing that the more megapixels your digital camera or smartphone camera has the better the quality of the picture you'd be getting from it.

Well this is not completely true.

Megapixels do matter when it comes to being able to "blow up" or enlarge the pictures you take without them getting all pixelated (seeing the little dots/squares that form the picture)or distorted, but aside from that the more important things to consider are the quality of the camera lens and the size of it's light sensor.

You see there comes a point where megapixels no longer matter which is why it is possible to have a camera with, for instance, a 8-megapixel rating that would take much better quality pictures than one that might have a 16-megapixel rating.

For precise, beautiful images megapixels alone will not be enough.  You need a good lens, big light sensor (which is absent in present smartphones...yeah Nokia we're waiting) and megapixels.  Shop wisely!

What about multi-core processors on smartphones you ask?  I'll be addressing that one some time later (smile).