Blurry photos when using the flash

Flash is useless!

I just got the Iphone 4. Two things are really bad with this phone: it drops calls like crazy, I guess I need a case for it, and the camera flash is basically useless. Take a look a these two pictures: one without flash, the other with a flash.

 

I have not had the problem with my iP4...it takes really good pictures with the flash.

Perhaps you should let apple have a looky.

 

in your photo with a flash, your finger was too close to the flash/lens and the glow you are seeing is the reflection of light back into the lens.

 

Could be cover

I was also researching why this was happening to me. My finger was no where near the flash/lens. It didn't appear that the camera flash/lens was blocked by anything, but when I took off my gel cover, my flash pictures worked great. It must have been reflecting back from that. I only wish I would have discovered this a week ago --

 

Instruction Film Reflection

On my Iphone 4, it turned out to be the instruction film that was left inside the protective case that I bought about a month ago at the ATT store. Hadn't taken any pictures since then so I didn't put two and two together until I took the case off to try it without that. The flash was reflecting off of the film. Just peeled it off and all is fine.