I recently bought a Jenoptik 4100z3 (German make) from Dixons. I spent at least an hour in the shop, (got good advice actually from the Dixon's assistant); started at the lowest prices and worked my way up the shelves / prices and back down again, so I looked at about 20 cameras in all.
It's a 4.1 megapixel camera, otherwise quite simple (it looks like a simple 35mm viewfinder camera with a black case and an integral flash). It has a 36mm by 28m colour viewscreen and a separate viewfinder. The pictures it takes are pretty amazing when printed out on my HP PhotoSmart 1000 printer, in fact better than my Pentax 35 mm SLRs using conventional films.
The shelf price was £399.99p with a 16 meg compactflash card but I bought a 32 meg card with the 10% discount I got off that price.
The number of pics on 32 megs can be varied between 14 (bigger than A4 size in "fine" resolution) and 623, depending on the size and quality selected.
BTW, The "CompactFlash" memory card format fits straight in my HP printer so that pics can be printed without the PC switched on. (The Sony "memory stick" does NOT fit either slot on this printer).
We tend to to use the camera mainly in the "half size" mode (1600x1200) and standard quality, which gives 58 pics on a 32 meg card. My wife is a professinal florist and uses it to take 7 by 5 inch pictures of floral arrangements. That resolution is perfectly good for printing out in enough detail to go in the shop catalogue and also for family snaps.
It has a USB cable included for connection direct to a PC and a video out cable for direct viewing on a TV (it has a slideshow function which is useful for showing Granny on the telly etc). A vinyl case and wrist strap, and software for PC and MAC use are included.
We have found it uses 4 AA batteries fairly quickly so I bought 8 NiMH ones plus a charger for another £24, they last far better. I also bought a £19 AC power adapter for bench use when I'm downloading pics etc, well worth it to avoid glitches due to flat batteries halfway through a download.
Jenoptik do have a website, but this camera only came out in October and it doesn't show yet, however, use Google search (type in Jenoptik 4100z3) for a few sites reviewing it. It gets good write ups and I seem to have got it very cheaply.
I would say that it is great for someone wanting high quality pics but it is fairly basic in function. For example, there is no external flash conector, no sound mode. From what I have seen, if you want bells and whistles and 4.1 megapixels you need to pay at least a couple of hundred pounds more, or possibly up to double the price of this camera.
Overall the camera feels solid and has the advantage of a non-quirky shape - some of the other ones I looked at were awkward to carry. We are very pleased with it and see it as something of a bargain for the quality of pictures it produces.
Hope this helps, I heartily recommend the camera.