I agree that a flash can still be very nice in case of motion or filling (although filling would work with LED as well, just to a lesser extent), at least when you need it even it it's not necessarily common. It's a nice comfort on a phone to take all kinds of pictures with the camera you always have in your pocket. But as Macros and Chen said, the main goal of this phone is to be a keyboard phone and not a camera phone, and these two things are hard to reconcile in the same design (and I have a clear preference since I don't really care about camera phones, but that's personal taste and the market shows that most people think the opposite ). A LED flash seems like a nice compromise.