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A camera phone is a mobile phone that is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras. It can also send the resulting image wirelessly and conveniently. The first commercial phone with a color camera was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999. [1]
Although the greyscale Dycam Model 1 (also marketed as the Logitech FotoMan) was the first consumer digital camera to be sold in the US (starting in November 1990) [3] [4] and at least one other camera, the Fuji DS-X, was sold in Japan even earlier, in late 1989, [5] the QuickTake was probably the first digicam to have wide consumer acceptance.
1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder. 1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954. 1954 – Leica M Introduced; Photograph scanned into a digital ...
ZTE's finally done it. The company's new smartphone is just a slab of glass on the front, with the selfie camera neatly hidden under the phone's display. Teased a few weeks ago and announced on ...
Kahn working on the first camera phones June 11, 1997, Santa Cruz, CA: Image taken by Kahn after his daughter's birth July 1, 2010, Double Jeopardy clue. Kahn has founded four software companies: Borland, founded in 1982 (acquired by Micro Focus in 2009), Starfish Software, founded in 1994 (acquired by Motorola in 1998, and subsequently Google in 2011), LightSurf Technologies, founded in 1998 ...
It was also the first Nokia phone with sliding keypad, the second being the Series 40-based Nokia 6111, released in 2005. In addition it was the first Series 60 platform device (which would go on to power the majority of Nokia smartphones for many years after), as well as the first mass market Symbian OS device to be released, [ 7 ] allowing ...
The 155 gram (5.5 oz.) camera could also take 20 photos and convey them by e-mail, with the camera phone retailing at the time for 40,000 yen, about US$325 in 1999. [68] [69] The VP-210 was released in May 1999 and used its single front-facing 110,000-pixel camera to send two images per second through Japan's PHS mobile phone network system.
At 30, I reluctantly bought a smartphone once life with my flip phone became too difficult.. Now that I text so much and use social-media apps, I have less to talk to friends about in person ...