Who made the first camera phone?
It depends who you ask. In 2000, Samsung and Kyocera both released their first camera phones in South Korea, while Sharp did one in Japan. The Samsung SCH-V200, for example, sold in June that year. It could take 20 photos at a meager 0.35 megapixels (MP), and you had to hook it up to a PC to extract the photos.
Camera phones have advanced dramatically since. The Samsung Galaxy S9+, for example, shoots 12MP photos and 4K video. With 256GB of internal storage, the S9+ can store more than 50,000 images. Besides advancing in technology, the camera phone has led to a photography explosion. For the past seven years, the most popular camera on Flickr has been a smartphone. Info Trends estimates that in the past five years, the number of digital photos taken each year has surged from 660 billion to 1,200 billion.
The market research company believes that smartphone cameras are behind the growth; it estimates 85 percent of all images captured in 2017 were shot on smartphones. It’s little wonder as smartphone cameras are everywhere. It’s estimated that in 2017, nearly 1.54 billion smartphones sold worldwide.
This story is from the April 2018 edition of HWM Singapore.
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