A noob who is interested of buying his first digi-cam.
Have 2 models in mind :

1. Sony T-20
2. Canon Ixus 750i

my interest/concerns are
1. compact and light weight (can put inside t-shirt pocket)
2. Cheap of coz. My budget around RM1000-RM1500
3. Resolution around 8. Since Im not profesional, I think 8 will be good enough.
4. Battery lasting and wide LCD.
5. User friendly/ Easy to use.

Plan to get it within this month or next. Therefore would appreciate if you guys/girls can give any good advices.

Or, any better camera models/brand you would like to recomend>?

Your concern seems to be not a concern at all. I tell you what..

1. compact and light weight (can put inside t-shirt pocket)- Nowadays almost every compact cam are of same size and weight, you wouldnt even notice which one is heavy or light. Do you really go measure the dimension or weight? Would you be really care for 5grams different? If a good cam is 200gram, a bad cam is 150gram, would you buy the cam which is 150gram?

2. Cheap of coz. My budget around RM1000-RM1500- Are you asking which of the 2 cameras you listed is cheaper (within your budget) and you would go for the cheaper one? Then it is piece of cake. Just go to shop and find out.

3. Resolution around 8. Since Im not profesional, I think 8 will be good enough.- Wise enough, but some people can take great pics from a cam with 3MP compare to some people who take lousy pics from cam with 6MP. If you know what i mean. Resolution does not always help, but skill does.

4. Battery lasting and wide LCD. - In compact cam, you will not get the pic of what you see from LCD. Meaning, what you see is not what you get. Wide LCD is more like a style or nicer look or convenient for your eyes to see. This wont be my priority when choosing a camera. Battery lasting, yes. My suggestion, get a spare battery like most ppl do nowadays. When you travel, you wouldnt want to risk of losing any golden oppotunity to shoot great pic, by just bringing one battery. No matter how long it last, you will still need spare battery. Jz a matter of how cheap the battery is.

5. User friendly/ Easy to use.- Different ppl, different perspective. Dont listen to any forumer on this. Hands on, try it yourself. If you get use to Canon in 5 mins, you will say Canon is user friendly. If you press lesser buttons to get what feature you want in Sony, you might say Sony is easy to use.

Go for Canon. I may be bias, but i hate Sony for creating memory stick. It makes it impossible for you to use other memory cards, but only memory stick and by this opportunity, the memory stick is f......g expensive. When you use Sony with memory stick, you like it or not of the price, you hv to buy it.