03-17-2004, 02:30 PM
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The Next Picture Messaging Boom
"Camera phones may be popular, but one of that technology's biggest market opportunities has yet to become a reality: users swapping snapshots between different wireless carriers.
It's not only the carriers that stand to profit from this development, but also the companies that supply the products and services that will make such interoperability possible.
By the end of 2004, consumers will have sent 3.8 billion multimedia messages, which are mostly photographs, according to research outfit IDC. That's astounding considering that camera phones didn't even hit the U.S. market in a meaningful way until 2003, and that U.S. users still can't send pictures to phones on different networks such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless"
Forbes has an interesting article on the current state of picture phones and who is profiting from them.
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