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Camera-Phones (Frequently asked questions)
Camera phones are disruptive innovation for the imaging industry.
The first camera phone was the J-SH04 introduced by SHARP and J-Phone in Japan in November 2000.
Today's state of the art (January 2005) camera phones have 2 Megapixel image size, auto-focus, movies, removable memory cards (128 Megabyte or more),
flash, GPS (global positioning system), JAVA, 3G (384 kpbs data download) or 3.5G (2.4 Mpbs data download) mobile internet connection
We expect that before not too long, practically all mobile phones globally will have built-in digital cameras.
What are camera-phones? How do camera-phone pictures look like? Who started camera-phones? When were camera phones introduced?
Which was the first camera phone? What does "Sha-mail" mean?
Overwiew, user numbers, characteristics and trends.
With over 10 million Camera-phone users for DoCoMo in Japan alone, Camera phones are
developing into a huge new industry. Predictions are that there will soon be
more digital cameras inside mobile phones than stand-alone digital cameras...
Vodafone has announced to introduce Camera phones in Europe. Eurotechnology expects
global introduction of camera phones, provided that consumers show the
same enthousiasm as in Japan...
Many mobile phone handsets with digital cameras allow the determination of the
handset's position either via inbuilt GPS equipment or via triangulation. This location
information can be sent via email to inform others about the users location.
...more questions & answers to come
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