[PapaBear3625]

You could have 100 zillion gabillion pixels and it won't make a good photo if you don't have optics good enough to take a shot that's any better at that resolution.

Exactly. After a threshold, the quality and size of the lens the dominant factor in picture quality.

[Still Thinking]

My 14MP Nikon digital takes better pictures than my (surprisingly good) 8MP Android, but it has a Nikor glass lens that’s probably 10 times the diameter and thickness of the one in the phone. To take a photo worthy of 41MP, imagine the lens you’re going to need, and the percentage increase in size and/or cost (some tradeoff between the two, but at levels of both I can’t see how they could make work in a cell phone).

41MP may be twice the bandwidth of professional cameras or whatever, but I bet the lens alone on those cameras costs about 20 cell phones worth.