LOL at calling it "Apple's claim", as if this was some bizarre new way of looking at digital camera physics that somehow had to be proven in serious testing -- as if this hasn't been common knowledge for at least 5 years.
Seriously, it's been pretty long since people thought megapixels equaled image quality, and the fact that cramming too many pixels into tiny sensors can actually degrade image quality due to diffraction issues and worse light gathering abilities, should be well known to pretty much everyone that has been paying a little attention to digital photography -- as should the fact that when the higher pixel count isn't hurting image quality, it often will not make it better anyway, because the small size of the lenses used in those cameras only have a very limited resolving power, becoming a bottleneck.
It's amazing that people are still spewing crap like saying the iPhone 4 has exellent image quality "despite the fact that it only has 5 megapixels, with other cell phones having 8" and blablabla. Dumheads, it's excactly because the iPhone only has 5 megapixels (in addition to a larger, illuminated sensor), that image quality is so good.
I'm so happy Apple refused to be part of the megapixel race, which in many camera markets (apparently not cell phones) is completely dead, because people are beginning to learn it has nothing to do with image quality.
