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Camera phone clamped to a tripod Camera phones allow instant, automatic photo sharing. There is no need for a cable or removable card to connect to a desktop or laptop to transfer photos. 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 ...
The first mass-market camera phone was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model sold in Japan in November 2000. [ 59 ] [ 58 ] It could instantly transmit pictures via cell phone telecommunication . [ 60 ]
The SH04 was the transformational moment for the camera phone. Samsung's SCH-V200 phone equipped with a VGA camera was released in South Korea several months before the J-SH04. [4] The Samsung SCH-V200's camera was inside the same case as the phone and used the same battery and memory, but it was not integrated with the phone function.
In 2016 Time magazine included Kahn's first camera phone photo in their list of the 100 most influential photos of all time. [28] In 2017, Subconscious Films created a short film recreating the day that Philippe instantly shared the first camera-phone photo of the birth of his daughter Sophie. [29]
1997 – first known publicly shared picture via a cell phone, by Philippe Kahn. 2000 – J-SH04 introduced by J-Phone, the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that can take and share still pictures. [24] 2005 – AgfaPhoto files for bankruptcy. The production of Agfa brand consumer films ends.
By the mid-2000s, higher-end cell phones commonly had integrated digital cameras. In 2003 camera phones outsold stand-alone digital cameras, and in 2006 they outsold film and digital stand-alone cameras. Five billion camera phones were sold in five years, and by 2007 more than half of the installed base of all mobile phones were camera phones ...
A collection of Nokia mobile phones from the 2000s Nokia 7600 3G phone Nokia N-Gage. The company would then be known as a successful and innovative maker of camera phones. The Nokia 3600/3650 was the first camera phone on sale in North America in 2003. In April 2005, Nokia partnered with German camera optics maker Carl Zeiss AG. [57]
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.