This is true, and because of that and the noise at all ISO levels, I'm returning it.
That's not the story: the issue is that at Memory Express, I was told that this was the last one and that it had never been used, just put under glass for display.
I found pictures of some guy at the Memory Express digital camera counter on the camera when I got it home.
Here is the message I left on the camera as a picture:
This camera was opened, the battery charged, and
demonstrated in the store. Memory Express lied to
me, saying the camera had only been on display but
never used. I found pictures of the inside of the
store already on the camera. I returned it to
Memory Express...
Did they lie to you too?