I think that's probably why they did it as well. But, it seems to stick out like a sore thumb as a glaring difference between it and other phones. Maybe we're getting to the "saturation point" in that there are going to be so many different phones available that there will have to be slight feature differences such as this to distinguish them.
I must say that I rarely use my camera on my phone (BB Tour), and I never use the video camera. The camera's not bad, I just don't use it that much as there are better alternatives. I don't ever use the video camera mainly because it sucks and it's really not even worth it. And the screen size on my Tour is not something you want to use for anything like picture or video viewing.
I use my camera, but that is mostly for work. I take pictures of damaged goods on loads that I deliver to customers.
Personally I think they could have done the 8 mega pixel camera and hd and still had the phone distinguished from the X simply because of the size of the screen.
That was the other reason I didn't care for the X. To me it is too big. I don't want a phone that big.
On the flip side, isn't nice to be able to have these types of choices? With Apple and the iPhone, that is all you have. You can't choose different service providers, different types of screens, or etc.
With Android we don't have to limit ourselves to a single provider, or even a single phone. If your preference is a large screen you have the choice of an X, or an EVO. You have phones that 1 gig processors in them and others with slower processors. We have the luxury of choice which is great.