I think most people own tablets with better camera lens than their cheaper smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy Mini, cheap camera, or regular camera cell phone with a 2-3 Megapixel lens made of plastic or low quality glass lens.
The front camera on the iPad Air is a 5 Mega Pixel Sapphire Camera lens which is higher quality than a lot of cheap smartphone lenses.
Taking a photo with a tablet is also easier for people with poor eyesight because the tablet screen is usually 8-10 inches in size compared to cheap smartphones which are 3-4 inches in size.
Most people are also more likely to be already holding their tablet in their hands because it is too big to put in a pocket like a smartphone or camera, so turning on a tablet screen, and launching the photo taking app to take a picture is faster.
If you own a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, you can use the full version of Photoshop and a keyboard and mouse to edit your photo after you taken it.
I think the cell phones nowadays provide good camera lens compared to any other Digital cameras. If you spend a handful of bucks you get a minimum of 5 mega pixel camera on your cell phone.
I can't see any real benefits to taking pictures on a tablet over your smartphone, 9 times out of 10 the camera specs on phones are better than tablets just now.
It maybe faster to take a photo with a tablet because you may already be holding it to read a e-book, so you just need to launch the camera app, and press the take photo button on the app.
I think for the higher priced tablets like the iPad Air, and Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet have Cameras which are comparable or better than many smartphones.
I can't see any real benefits to taking pictures on a tablet over your smartphone, 9 times out of 10 the camera specs on phones are better than tablets just now.
Not necessarily. I have an iPad Mini and a Galaxy Nexus phone. The iPad mini's photos are substantially better.
It's important to note that a "megapixel" is a fairly meaningless metric. It just refers to the size of the file which the camera produces, not the actual quality. I don't know enough about cameras to tell you how to measure the quality, but sometimes just looking at the lens to see how large it is, what it is made of, and how cheap it looks is a pretty good guide.
I think it's the new trend. They seem to be more better quality than smartphones (in most cases, depends really though). They are capable of taking bigger photos so you can capture that moment (large groups and such).
I think some tablet brands like Samsung also release new tablets like the Galaxy Tab S almost on a monthly basis, so their cameras are sometimes better than some phones like Blackberry or iPhone which don't get new versions until after a year or more.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.1 inch tablet which recently got release has a 8.0 MP/Mega Pixel auto-focus CMOS lens, and a Flash on the back for taking better pictures in low light conditions.
The new Camera App, newer Mobile operating system like Android 4.4 Kitkat, and a faster CPU, more RAM, and other parts and apps which come with newer tablets may make taking pictures, and videos better because it takes less time to process the image from the lens to convert it into a picture file or video, and the software maybe more stable, and convert the lens' picture to a digital file better than older camera apps on older mobiles.
