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Ive only ever had two phones with camera's on them. They were both cheap phones. My samsung cost £15 payg, but it had cashback deal so I basically got it for £5.
This was 2-3 years ago.
So yeah, you can get some decent pictures out of a cheap old camera phone. The same way you can out of a disposable film camera, even though it is so easy to go wrong.
You just have to understand that the camera has specific distance from subject, lighting etc that will result in the optimum image.
For cheap fixed digital camera's like in phones, this usually means good sunlight, but no shiny/white things or it will look bleached. Just before sunset is a great time to get some nice colour in a picture on a shit camera. Utilising macro setting, will also make your pics look almost like they were taken through a real camera. If you get your focus sharp enough on you subject (like the butterfly in this pic) it will really "pop" which is rare to see on fixed focus cameraphone which typically has a very (broad?) depth of field which makes pictures look flat.