Cell Phones Will Not replace Camera's

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.designtechnica.com/article8206.html' target='_blank'>http://news.designtechnica.com/article8206.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Whoever said cell phones with built-in cameras would replace regular full-sized digital cameras? Plenty of people including overzealous research firms according to IDC. According to IDC's Mobile Imaging Survey, the camera phone is more of a gateway product in the U.S., and creates, rather than destroys digital camera users. The printing of images captured on camera phones is also on the decline, the IDC survey reveals. Instead of one image being printed on average per month like in 2004, one image is being printed every three months in 2005."</i><br /><br />I called it! I remember how there were so many articles about a year ago speculating that cell phone cameras will kill digital camera sales and I defended digital cameras. I agree that if anything, people will see the advantage of digital cameras when using their cell phone ones, and then they will invest in nice digital cameras. Plus, cell phone cameras, while getting better all the time, just don't quite cut it when it comes down to quality.

[Jerry Raia]

It is a shame though that as pointed out fewer and fewer images are being printed. I'm more guilty than most I suspect. I don't print anything! A lot of images will be lost because of this trend I think.

[jizmo]

I don't get the big companies' aspect of trying to implement a crappy CAMERA TO CELL phone.

Since we have tiny 7 megapixel cameras with gorgeous displays already, why not implement a PHONE TO CAMERA instead, since a phone chips don't take that much space nowadays.