If you’re one of those people that thinks more megapixels mean better photos, that’s not accurate at all.  More megapixels mean more data, but more data doesn’t mean good data.

It’s like wanting a local phonebook and instead getting one with some numbers from your neighborhood and some others from a neighborhood in Zimbabwe – and none of them are correctly matched to their owners.

If you missed it we’ve seen this movie before (or should I have said ‘photo’?). DSLR manufacturers have finally stopped the megapixel war in favor of getting quality from the megapixels their sensors process, and even the current iPhone came out well ahead of the higher megapixel Droid in recent shootouts.

The entire Apple blogosphere is going to report this translated article from the Czech Republic as significant because some guy’s got his hands on an iPhone 4 before its release, but they’re missing the real news here.  This is arguably the first time we’ve seen photos taken by the iPhone 4 that were not Apple-sourced.

What do they reveal?  Apple iPhone 4 is the first ever phone based point-and-shoot camera for the rest of us, and that means the end of the non-DSLR camera segment as we know it.