For $56 I bought a Olympus TG1 off Ebay. It was $40 more than my cell phone and will take better pics. And all told I will have less than $75 in both, each doing what it does better than the other.
For a camera forum to consistently recommend a cell phone is like asking what AR I should get and reading a dozen replies about why you need an AK.
rant on: This is why the $300 price range is almost empty of camera offerings and the market is drying up. No, a cell phone isn't the end all be all answer for taking photos. It's the exploitative destruction of photography by putting something in the hands of anyone who can tap a touch screen and then making them think it was all about their skill.
I'm suggesting that just because a company has put tens of thousands of dollars into the programming to sell millions of the product across the world, that the owner isn't a much a part of the equation as they think. Anybody can click an icon. A photographer can take a photograph despite his equipment. Flight 1549 did not land in the Hudson on autopilot, CPT Sullenburger was flying it. I don't think any passenger at the controls sitting there watching the dials spin would have been a better answer.
NPC's can't even video in widescreen as it is. Making the phone correct operator error? When do they learn how to do it right, and what then distinguishes the professional from just anybody on staff with a gizmo? Keep it up, there will be no cameras at all or professionals to operate them.
rant off