Can someone show me an example of what a 1.3 megapixel picture should look like?

To follow on here, a HUGE part of the problem (apart from the tiny size), is lack of light. Cell phone cams will work a lot better in full sunlight. Looks like this pic, you have the blind closed, and a single light on in the room. While that’s fine for humans to see in, it’s nowhere near enough for a good camera, let alone a cell phone camera.

Opening the blinds would help a bit, but open up a raft of new problems.

So, to test the there is a real problem with the camera, take a pic outside in full sun, or at least on a bright cloudy day, and transfer it to your PC in fullsize.

Come on, guys. Yes, it is a given that cell phone cameras pretty much universally suck and do poorly in low light or with any kind of movement, but it’s also very clear that that’s not his problem here. The process he is using to take and/or transfer the picture is downsampling the picture to such a ridiculous degree that the actual quality of the camera isn’t even coming into play. You could set up professional lighting and put the phone on a tripod and the image is still going to come out 86 by 115 pixels.

Which seems odd to me. Every phone I’ve used for the past several years has defaulted to 320x240 or better when sending as a MMS message. I’m not sure if I’ve ever even seen a phone with a screen as small as 115x86.

ETA: PhoneScoop has a few with resolutions of 96x64 and 101x80, but they appear to be text-based or have simple iconic menus. Certainly not something you’d use to receive a picture message, so I can’t imagine why the default would be 115x86. By comparison, the iPhone screen is 320x480. Even the LG Rumor is 220x176.