I've seen some pretty well done photos and videos out of cell phones.
People are using elaborate rigs to film and edit videos on iPhones but that's obviously not representative of every day use.
You wouldn't obviously use a phone photo to make large prints but for snap shots or capturing something unexpected, they're kind of indispensable.
Remember those giant polaroids that insurance claims adjusters used to carry around?
But people used to take photos worth preserving with those brownies and Kodak instamatics.
I once saw an exhibition of photos taken over the decades by people in their homes in the '50s to the '80s or so. As cheap cameras became widely available, the kind of photos people took and keep changed in subject matter. Compare how in the old days, the only family photos people would have would be those posed in some studio, once a year or so.
Ubiquity of phone cameras make for even more candid photos. A contrast to the deliberative process taken by serious photographers but yet, capturing people in the moment in a way that those posed photos rarely do.
