Every family has a self-appointed photographer who buzzes around, preserving those precious memories and bad fashion choices. Delight your favorite shutterbug with one of our camera phone picks.
Editors' note: Check out our entire series of Holiday gift picks.
For those serious about stills: Nokia N73
Does the photographer in your household shy away from camera phones because they don't have that solid digital-camera feel? Slip a Nokia N73 under the tree to change his mind. This hefty candy bar boasts a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics for some of the best pictures we've seen from a camera phone. The handset's gorgeous display serves as the viewfinder, and the phone includes red-eye removal and auto-focus so shots will always (well, almost always) come out picture perfect. The N73 doesn't forget the fact that it's a cell phone, offering up robust call quality and messaging capabilities.
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For camera novices: Samsung SGH-T629
If your budding shutterbug is just looking for something simple to get started, they'll take to the Samsung SGH-T629. The sleek slider includes an easy-to-use 1.3-megapixel camera that takes solid stills and lets you jazz them up with frames and color adjustments. The T629 also boasts above-average call quality, Bluetooth, and an MP3 player for when your camera neophyte is taking a break from squeezing the shutter release.
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For the camcorder lover: Nokia N93
Camcorder aficionados will thrill to the Nokia N93's VGA-quality video recorder that will have wannnabe directors yelling "action!" The handset features a swiveling QVGA display to get the perfect angle for close-ups, plus a 3.2-megapixel camera for crisp, clean stills, as well as PictBridge support for sending snapshots directly to a printer. Ready for showtime? Just plug the N93 directly into a TV for an instant home movies or a slideshow.
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For the fashionable photographer: Sony Ericsson K790i
If your shutterbug values bit of style, she'll love the Sony Ericsson K790i. While the candy bar isn't especially thin, it dons a glossy black shell in, and includes a sleek keypad, as well as an eye-catching 3.2-megapixel camera, a crisp display display, a Xenon flash and an MP3 player. Is your would-be Diane Arbus a perfectionist when it comes to her shots? Then she'll love the phone's BestPic feature, which takes several photos in quick succession and lets you pick your favorite.
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For camera and 3G lovers: Samsung SCH-A990
Got a member of the family who adores eye candy? Put a smile on his face with the Samsung SCH-A990, which houses a 3.2-megapixel camera, a swiveling display and a media player with V Cast support for music and video. The clamshell also boasts solid battery life (four hours of talk time) so he'll have hours of diversions whether he's rocking out or telling others to "say cheese."
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