Are old point and shoot cameras better than new smartphone cameras?

I have an 8 year old sony cybershot point and shoot camera that I hadn't used in a while, and a Galaxy note 8 smartphone (which came out less than a year ago). I took a few pictures with both and compared...they didn't seem like that much of a difference! But IDK.

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BoobooSnafu

It depends upon the type of photo you want to take. Modern phone cameras have a lot of auto tweaking on them to deliver an optimal standard photo - and they do an awesome job of this. BUT - if you want to start playing around with exposures, apertures, focus etc....there's only so much you can do.

Not that you can't achieve similar results with digital editing later. But with the old 'point and shoot' where you manually set everything......it sort of becomes an art form to achieve that 'ideal' shot - in one go.
It' loses some of the magic when you have to edit and play around with a photo to get the affect you desired.

It's an amazing feeling when you get it - that one magical perfect shot !