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Top 5 camera phones

When was the last time you took a picture with your camera? And how about with your phone? Exactly. The cameras in phones have become our daily snapshot tool, so you should consider imaging seriously when buying a new phone. Brian Cooley counts up the top five phones by their cameras according to CNET's editors.

We have more lists of best phones, ranked by other features, at CNET's cell phone center.

Rumor: 8-megapixel Samsung camphone heads to T-Mobile

There are phones with cameras, and then there are cameras with phones, and a new badboy reportedly making its way to T-Mobile seems to be the latter. This touch-screen Samsung beast features an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with flash and what appears to be optical zoom.

That would make the camera on this phone better than my normal point 'n' shoot, which I adore.

This would also probably be the highest-resolution in a camphone available in the U.S. as a subsidized handset. Since T-Mobile's 3G is finally becoming available all over, look for that as well.

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LG KU990 Viewty: The YouTube phone is unveiled

Note: This post comes by way of Crave UK. Some links have been changed to reflect their CNET U.S. counterparts. The original post can be found here.

LG isn't renowned for high-end camera phones, but that doesn't mean that the company behind the fashion-centric Chocolate phone can't make one. It can--and it has--and no, we're not talking about the LG KG920. The LG KU990 Viewty, formerly known as the NYX, might have an awful name, but it features a whopping 5-megapixel camera with a nifty touchscreen interface and YouTube functionality.

Similar to the LG Prada phone, … Read more