> And what else would you do with this media given it's a feature phone?

Send it to someone? It probably supports MMS. Or transfer it to your computer over USB-C/bluetooth.

Target customer group doesn't know how to use a computer, for the most part.

VGA is not that bad for phone pictures. If you scale down a photo from decent camera to VGA, it can look fine. The problem is that for VGA cameras, the resolution is the smallest issue - colors, sharpness, dybamic range are likely tragic.

> VGA is not that bad for phone pictures

You're right. It is the terrible jpeg compression which destroys everything.

No, it's not the JPEG compression.

This is an example of an image from my daughter's VGA camera: https://imgur.com/oMNkrUm

The image has ~100 KB which is plenty for this resolution. But the input data from the sensor is awful because the sensor and the optics are awful.

Yeah, people really don’t seem to understand that most kids currently in high school have only used a desktop computer to play PC games, if at all.

Vodafone Germany already turned off MMS. Others will follow.

It was hurting profits.