Few reasons why you would want to get p & s camera over smartphone is for one, the optical zoom. Second reason is because it is easier to .....well....just point and shoot. Do you notice like before taking shots, you tend to look at smartphone screen and fumble to find camera apps before taking shots? I can imagine this on most older folks who dont know how to use shortcut. Besides, TS parents apparently wont care much about pixel peeping so rm800 budget camera would be more than enough.