Study: More then 1 billion Camera phones in use
Jun 24, 2007 News
According to a study by Strategy Analytics Ltd. the wordwide number of mobile camera phones in use will top one billion this year, reflecting their tremendous growth rate since the first Mobile camera phones hit the market in early 200o. As the British researchers found out, mobile camera phone sales shot up from about three million camera phones in 2001 to 500 million in 2006 – a pretty impressive growth rate within five years. However, the reaserch group evaluating the data strongly believes the growth will start to level off now. (SK)
June 24th, 2007 at 5:52 am
According to another study released Saturday by Strategy Analytics, Nokia and Motorola are the leaders in the booming global camera phone market. According to the group, “the camera phone market is now entering its third phase where the focus will move from megapixel and basic image enablement to the quality of the imaging experience. In North America, and Western Europe, one-megapixel devices are now table stakes, while niche devices with five megapixels or more will rise to over 2% of sales this year. Features such as zoom, flash and autofocus will become critical differentiators in 2008 and beyond.” A copy of the press release can be found here: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070623PR201.html
June 24th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Personally, I believe a phone needs a camera about as much as the pope needs testicles. But the cams are going to be built-in as a default, you hardly get to choose. Almost every phone has infrared, as well. Guess you could that a success, too…but when do you ever use that?