"Camera phones are becoming more and more prevalent these days. In fact, I doubt a carrier would want to ship a phone without a camera because of the potential for increased ARPU (average revenue per user). The Smartphone devices built by HTC have had a camera (in one form or another) since the early days of the original SPV (remember that plug-in camera? I still have one somewhere). This metamorphosed into an integrated camera in the HTC Voyager (SPV E200) and HTC Himalaya device (XDA II/MDA II, etc). A rather cool thing about these two devices is that the software used for taking pictures uses the same underlying API, which means it is possible to write a wrapper which will work on both the Himalaya Pocket PC Phone Edition and on the Voyager Smartphone. Well, I've done just that."Access to the integrated camera on a Smartphone has long been sought after by developers. (The next major release of Windows Mobile, based on Windows CE 5.0, will have a camera API available for developers. However, that won't help out any developer looking to target the current hardware on the market.) Neil Cowburn has done what many developers have been longing for. Way to go Neil :way to go:
Camera API Wrapper For HTC-Based Devices Released
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