Resolution isn't important in small sensors, and the JPEG processing can't be compared to what phones do. A 2007 P&S isn't going to turn a grey overcast sky blue because it thinks skies should be blue like an iphone does.

  >They were terrible....

If these kids want to really push the envelope of crappy digital imagery, they should get themselves an early Apple QuickTake. Now that was a dire camera. A mighty 640x480 resolution and colour rendering that made poeple look like they were made of clay.

I wonder whatever happened to the company that made them? Probably went bankrupt, soon after inflicting that monstrosity on an unsuspecting world.