Sony is famous for creating sleek and sexy products, but the Cyber-shot DSC-P20 ($190 street) is not one of them. The blue-and-gray plastic DSC-P20 is, in fact, a brick of a camera. But this little 1.3-megapixel powerhouse does have lots of great options.

The fixed focal length lens and tiny LCD viewfinder are parsimonious, as is the 4MB Memory Stick. You can capture images in black and white or sepia, and you can shoot at night. Image-storage formats include TIFF. The Cyber-shot P20 can also capture video (but without sound).

It ain't fancy, but the Sony Cyber-shot P20 offers a good number of features and produces decent 4- by 6-inch images, even with its sub-2–megapixel resolution.