How to take infinitely better smartphone photos in 5 minutes for $15 Over the past few years, cameras on modern smartphones have become shockingly*impressive. Well, some of them have, at least. Gone are the days of having to carry a cell phone and a separate compact digital camera, since the photos captured by many high-end smartphones like the iPhone 5s, Samsung phones and **kia phones are nearly*as good as images taken with point-and-shoot cameras. In fact, some smartphone cameras are even better than many*dedicated cameras. As good as these mobile camera have gotten, though, they all have one fatal flaw: You're the one taking the pictures.