Study: Camera phone market will top digital cameras

I find this hard to believe: Anybody who has used both devices can see how absolutely rotten the image quality is on camera phones compared to digital cameras and while one can agree that camera phone image quality is bound to improve I disagree that most people will prefer their cellphone images over their digital camera images for the following reasons.

1. If do-it all devices were so great then printer/scanner/copier/fax devices would own the market over standalone printers, scanners and fax machines. They don't because sooner or later people realize that total device quality in do-it-all devices tend to suffer.

2. Cell phone companies try very hard to prevent you from connecting directly to your cell phone to download the images. The hardware and software options to do so really suck. Their business models depend on users paying to make a digital copy of the photos. By comparison digital cameras are designed to make this super easy.

3. It may be true that the *growth* measured in percentages of cell phones equipped with cameras outstrips the growth in digital cameras for a while, but for camera phones to replace digital cameras in their quality and utility, a lot more has to change than mere megapixels.; Posted by: Spirckle Posted on: 08/10/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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