on megapixels in phone cameras

Question

I see so many phones all with the same quality but boasting about “12 megapixels” etc… what do megapixels do in phone cameras?

In: Technology

Answer 1

A “megapixel” is one million pixels. What this means is that your phone is capable of taking a photo which has approximately 12 million pixels in it.

Higher megapixel count *usually* means a higher quality photo, as the camera is capturing more information (what it can see). Lots of other things improve a photo’s quality but that’s a whole other argument.