Category: Camera Phones
Pentax has announced plans to start production of 2 and 3 megapixel modules for the cameraphone market. In a brief report on NE Asia Online, this move is part of a wider strategy to boost non-camera based revenue - “Noncamera operations are expected to account for 75% of operating profit for fiscal 2006 if the three-year business plan goes ahead as projected, the officials added.
Website: NE Asia Online - Pentax to Make Camera Phone Parts to Expand Profit Base
Pentax has announced plans to start production of 2 and 3 megapixel modules for the cameraphone market. In a brief report on NE Asia Online, this move is part of a wider strategy to boost non-camera based revenue - “Noncamera operations are expected to account for 75% of operating profit…
More cameraphone news as 4 New York Times staff photographers try out the Sanyo PM-8200 and report back on whether they liked it or not. Concerns about the image quality and the issue of privacy were raised - “When I’m taking pictures I want to be seen as a photographer and not be sneaking pictures”. But the overall impression of this 640x480 pixel phone was quite positive - “I didn’t expect good quality, but when I printed the pictures it was better than I expected.”
Website: Reiter’s Camera Phone Report - New York Times staff photographers play with Sanyo camera phones
More cameraphone news as 4 New York Times staff photographers try out the Sanyo PM-8200 and report back on whether they liked it or not. Concerns about the image quality and the issue of privacy were raised - “When I’m taking pictures I want to be seen as a photographer…
Yahoo News have published an interesting and well-balanced overview of the cameraphone market and how it is catching up with more conventional digital cameras (found via Engadget).
“The emergence of the 3.2-megapixel phone will have a direct negative impact on the digital camera market from three megapixels on down,” said J.P. Morgan analyst Hisashi Moriyama. “Demand for the three-megapixel category should naturally begin to shift from digital cameras to camera-equipped phones.”
Website: Yahoo News - Megapixel Phones Encroach on Digital Camera Turf
Yahoo News have published an interesting and well-balanced overview of the cameraphone market and how it is catching up with more conventional digital cameras (found via Engadget). “The emergence of the 3.2-megapixel phone will have a direct negative impact on the digital camera market from three megapixels on down,” said…
dotPhoto, Inc. Press Release 01/06/04
DOTPHOTO TRANSFORMS THE WAY CAMERA PHONES PRINT PHOTOS WITH “CLICK & DELIVER” PATENT-PENDING TECHNOLOGY
Prints Directly from Any Camera Phone - No Special Software Needed
June 1, 2004, West Trenton, NJ - dotPhoto, Inc. www.dotphoto.com, a global leader in state-of-the-art online digital image handling and the first company to enable camera phone photo uploads, announced today one-button Click & Deliver patent-pending technology that transforms the way camera phones print photos. All camera phones (regardless of carrier) can now print “Cell Prints” directly from their cell phone without any special software.
Click & Deliver is completely automatic. Users simply take a photo with their camera phone and email the image through their phone to [email protected]. dotPhoto then automatically checks the user’s personal preferences, and prints and ships their photos (called “cell prints”) on high-quality Kodak paper directly to the user. It’s that easy. To experience Click & Deliver, anyone can join the free service at http://www.dotPhoto.com, set their Click & Deliver preferences under MyAccount, and start e-mailing photos. The basic photo-processing price is only 11? each for a 3” x 4” camera phone print. The 3” x 4” print size optimizes the slightly lower resolutions of camera phones while maintaining the camera phone’s aspect ratio, so there is no need for cropping. New dotPhoto users will receive their first 10 “cell prints” free of charge.
dotPhoto, Inc. Press Release 01/06/04 DOTPHOTO TRANSFORMS THE WAY CAMERA PHONES PRINT PHOTOS WITH “CLICK & DELIVER” PATENT-PENDING TECHNOLOGY Prints Directly from Any Camera Phone - No Special Software Needed June 1, 2004, West Trenton, NJ - dotPhoto, Inc. www.dotphoto.com, a global leader in state-of-the-art online digital image handling and…
Up to now I’ve resisted blogging about camera phones - they’re just low-megapixel, non-zoom, low-quality toys, right? Well, Casio’s latest camera phone, the A5406CA, is set to change all of that, as it offers 3.2 megapixels and up to 60 minutes of video!
On a more general note, do you think that PhotographyBLOG should cover camera phones? Are they the digital cameras of the future? How many of you own one?
Website: Casio Japan Press Release
Website: DCViews - Casio A5406C
Up to now I’ve resisted blogging about camera phones - they’re just low-megapixel, non-zoom, low-quality toys, right? Well, Casio’s latest camera phone, the A5406CA, is set to change all of that, as it offers 3.2 megapixels and up to 60 minutes of video! On a more general note, do you…