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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]
A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile phones than wired devices. [1]
The Samsung Galaxy Camera is a point-and-shoot camera which is an Android based mobile device. Samsung announced the camera in August 2012, with the slogan "Camera. Reborn." [1] [2] The device was officially released on 8 November 2012, with web sales beginning on 7 November. [3]
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.
The first consumer camera with a liquid crystal display on the back was the Casio QV-10 developed by a team led by Hiroyuki Suetaka in 1995. The first camera to use CompactFlash was the Kodak DC-25 in 1996. [52] The first camera that offered the ability to record video clips may have been the Ricoh RDC-1 in 1995.
It expanded to other markets during the 1990s. Its first smartphone was the Samsung SPH-i300 in 2001. During the early 2000s Samsung popularised the clamshell ("flip phone") design, [82] and the SGH-T100 was the first ever "true color" mobile phone and the firm's first to sell over 10 million handsets.
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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.