7MP .... money bags over here
My first point-and-shoot camera was a 2MP Fujifilm that I paid about $300 for.
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My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica that used a 3.5” floppy disk for storage. 
shot 0.3 MP and could store ~10-15 images per disk
Wow ... never knew these existed. But you would have a better resolution and quality if you just took the time to draw the image with paper and a pencil.
Smartphones suck at taking a picture when you click the goddamn button. The half-decent ones also have burst-first, which is just fantastic, and should be the default for smartphones as well.
The downside is the menus. Setting up a timer is agony. There's two d-pads and a dial and six buttons, none of which are labeled in anything but inscrutable hyper-stylized pictographs, and I swear to god their functionality is randomized every time you access them. It's like a shite SCP that feeds on human frustration.
I've lately been seeing a lot of gen alpha using old school digital cameras. I don't know if it's a retro fad or what.
Back when even the crap cameras for normies had decent optics on them. Smart phones...try.
Smartphones still take better photos but they compensate for the optics with software. If you stick that large of a lens into a smartphone, the battery would be too small. Not ti mention the extra moving parts required for retractable lens.
Sometimes snatch these for $10 at the thrift.
- Usually take modern memory cards, at worst with an adapter
- Actual focus mechanism vs. fake digital zoom
- Small loss if you drop it in the swamp, get it soaked, otherwise ruin it
- Almost all employ high quality gears and lenses and such
- Generally take a pair of AAs. (Maybe stay off the units with proprietary batteries.)
- Resolution is plenty fine for most use cases. Your pic is getting down-scaled when you share it. We're dressing up and taking 1-year anniversary wedding pics because all we have is shit that was downgraded by being passed around.
tl;dr: I'd buy the one pictured in a second.