No such thing as a 'good' camera, or a 'bad' camera.... only good and bad photographers, and more of less appropriate cameras for the job they are trying to tackle.
Folk have been taking photo's for almost 200 years; during that time a very many of the master-pieces of the art have been taken with cameras that to modern eyes would seem like a load of rubbish! YET they took master-pieces with them.... Hmmmm
Oh-Kay... as has been suggested, you tell us very little of what your starting level is, or what your aspirations may be, or what sort of subjects you are interested in.... back-to-top... no such thing as a bad camera, just an inappropriate one.
We could suggest a really really fantastic professional grade SLR.... this might to many be a fantastic camera... BUT if you don't know the first thing about how to use it, let alone get the most from it, worse still, have the wrong sort of lens for what you are trying to do, no better and in many ways a lot worse than suggesting you try a mobile-phone... especially if you have been convinced you need to spend a lot of money to get some-thing so inappropriate for your needs....
As you say you are interested in photography, we have to assume you are essentially a beginner; BUT, these days, with a camera in almost every mobile phone, in almost every-one's pocket, you probably aren't SO much of an absolute beginner...
When I was a kid... my first camera was a 110 cartridge Instamatic 'point and press'... it was a good camera... for me... aged 7.... I ran around and pointed it at stuff and pressed! Got smudgy, wonky, out of focus prints back because I didn't know what I was doing... asked why; got told to hold the camera straight, use the flash in the dark, etc, and started to learn.
My O/H's now seven year old grand-daughter, has been running around with a mobile phone since she could walk! {Kids these days, ALWAYS have to run before they can walk, don't they! Lol} .... If I gave her a 'cheap' point and press digital compact, she'd probably look at me sideways and ask me why I had given her a 'toy' when she expected a fancy DSLR like my daughter's got!
It ACTUALLY probably wouldn't be such a stupid idea though; my daughters now at uni studying photo at degree level; she started out at about three or four years old told to go 'play' with my cheap digi-compact point and press, and had been at this 'photo-lark' a decade when she elected to study the subject for GCSE, and expected to go 'play' with fancy DSLR's... and ended up doing most of her class-work with a camera-phone, and learning not what she expected, all about f-stops and shutter speeds and ISO settings, BUT the rules of composition; posing a subject; lighting, and 'critique'... it took her a year of academic photography before she 'needed' a DSLR, and even then, a lot of it was just to understand what she was doing and give her more to critique, and she was still doing an awful lot with a camera-phone, or point and shoot... and finding how to exploit even that.
There's an old adage, "The BEST camera, is always the one you have in your hand when you want to take a photo"
Which is very much an over-simplification, but it does hold true. And as a place to start; then, I am going to assume that you have a camera-phone; so get it in your hand! Its there, its available, and you don't have to go shopping! JUST use it.
From that.... work out where you are struggling... what cant you do that you hope to.... there's a very good chance that its NOT the camera-phone holding you back.. as said, daughters entire 1st year of GCSE photo was using one, and if you check on here and or on flikr groups and elsewhere, you will see some of the absolutely STUNNING photo's some folk take with nothing more elaborate than one; they get them with good technique and a little know how, NOT a fancy or expensive camera.
It could, in the enormous bag of compromise, that is photography, be the all-round 'best' camera for you. But, beyond that... we cant suggest anything much more suitable for anything without you telling us first, where you are struggling, and what you hope to achieve, and how much you have or are prepared to spend.... back to you, really... BUT don't sweat the small stuff... remember ANY camera can be the 'best' camera if you know what you want to do with it.. and have it in your hand when you want to do it!
