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I've owned pretty much all the popular point and shoots mentioned in this thread.
If you want a keeper just buy a Ricoh GR1v or Contax T3, best compacts made and in the long run you'll save money buying just buying one camera. No point buying 3 mediocre cameras when you can just buy 1 good one.
Get the Ricoh is you want lightness, slim profile, better ergonomics, shooting modes and the more versatile 28mm lens. Get the Contax if you want maximum sharpness, great flash and best color rendition.
For those debating it about color rendition, yes the lens matters a lot. I shot most of my street stuff with a Leica M6 with Leitz lenses and Nikon FE2 with Nikkor lenses. I will often shoot the same subject in the same light with the same film with both cameras because the focal length is different. The film is processed and scanned/printed at the same time. I can spot the different color rendition instantly. With my Leitz lenses being cooler and my AI-S Nikkors much more warm.
Also, I shoot a lot of half frame camera stuff and some of those old Olympus Pens and Ricohs are dam nice. The Pen W and D have lenses that are scary good with high resolving film like Valve and Provia. The Ricohs have a very decent Tessar clone in them and they can get pretty fucking sharp even wide open at f2.8. Sharp enough that it's the film grain not the lens limiting you.
For instance this is shot with a £1 Ricoh half frame wide open, estimating focus distant with, pushed Kodak Tri-X, plenty sharp enough for me with all those factor negating optimum sharpness.
