My current camera went bust yesterday and since its coming up to nearly 5 years now, thought its time to get a new one.

Have found two I have really liked, so was hoping to get some recommendations.

The first one is - a 10.1 mp, Sony Cyber shot camera

And the second one is - an 8.1 mp, Sony cyber shot camera

Both are priced at 169.95 and 109.95 respectively.

The 10.1mp is naturally a higher resolution so would be my first choice anyway.

What are you specifically looking do do with it? i.e, holidays & family photos, or for weddings, etc?

Bit of all really, holidays, family photos as well as weddings

Anyone else?

I would recommend you canon whic I am using since last year.

I'm now on my third Canon IXUS (upgraded the first one, lost the second one) and I've never had a problem with them. Small, compact, easy to use and great pictures.

i wouldn't get too fussed on the pixel count to be honest. I've read before that I think the maximum amount of pixels you can get on a stanard 6x4 photo is 6 million. You only need extra pixels if you are going to print the pictures at a bigger size.

I would look more into the zoom of the camera and things like face recognition

Well the more MP is just a myth, in most cases the difference between 10 and 8 will be zero unless you are making large prints which for a compact point and shoot would be a pretty stupid idea. The Nikon D40 is 6MP and that is one of the best cameras money can buy, but it is £225 and it isn't compact.

Having said that I would go for the 10.1MP model. It has a slightly larger zoom, has Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and has 2 more shooting modes. That is just by looking at the tech specs though.

Check out Flickr and check out the quality people are getting.
http://flickr.com/cameras/sony/dsc-w130/
http://flickr.com/cameras/sony/dsc-t77/