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Camera Phone Evolution
Cameras in
Cell Phones
Camera
cellular phones have undergone tremendous change over the years. When
they were launched, they were just a fancy add-on to mobile phones
rather than a fully functional and useful tool. But today the print
quality of the pictures has considerably improved and the memory
capacity of the cell phones has also increased. That means the user can
take more better quality pictures than before. At present, the print
quality of photos snapped with top class mobile phone cameras is
comparable to that of digital cameras.
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All the
major cellular handset brands such as Samsung, Nokia, and Motorola have
different versions of the camera cellular phone. In fact, the use of
such phones has become so common that people have started expecting a
camera as part of the "standard" mobile phone accessories. As a result,
all the cell phones in the higher range come equipped with digital
cameras. The ease of transferring the photos to other mobiles through
blue tooth, computers or data cable has made sharing photos easy and
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Camera Cellular Phones: Past And Present
The idea of a camera integrated with a phone, or the other way
around, is older than most people think. Some of the patents of
the phone-camera combo were registered as far back as the 1960s.
But what was an innovative, but impractical idea began to see
the light of feasibility only in 1990s. By this time, the use of
cell phones had become very popular. Also, digital cameras were
becoming affordable and were replacing the conventional cameras.
Cell phones are smaller and sleeker than conventional phones and
are electronically more suitable to host the digital camera
hardware.
The first camera phone prototype was called "intellect". It was
developed by Daniel A. Henderson in 1993. Rapid progress was
made in this field in the 1990s, with companies such as Kodak,
Canon, and Olympus developing new camera phone models. But these
were more like digital cameras equipped with cell phone
connectivity, not cell phones with camera option that we see
today. Apple Corporation, a habitual pioneer, spotted the market
for cell phones with cameras. The company launched Apple
Videophone/PDA in 1995. But it did not become an instant craze
among people as the company had imagined.
Sharp Corporation and Kyocera started to develop camera cellular
phones in separate projects in 1997. But the technologies used
by both companies were different. The credit of developing the
first commercial camera cellular phone goes to Sharp. It was
known as J-SH04 or simply J-Phone and was launched in Japan in
2001. It was exported to the USA, one year later.
The growth in popularity and functionality of cell phone with
attached digital camera has been rapid during the past six
years. The clarity of the images depends on the pixel count of
the camera. All cameras having more than 2 mega-pixels of image
resolution can provide good print quality. Samsung has several
types of camera phones, which are stylish and affordable. Other
companies such as Nokia and Motorola also roll out a number of
mobile phones equipped with digital cameras, every year. But the
reliability and design elegance associated with Samsung camera
cellular phones make them a better choice.
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