A short history of the camera phone
|
|
Posted On :
Jun-10-2009
| seen (1096) times |
Article Word Count :
369
|
|
The term camera phone commonly refers to cellphones with a built in digital camera, that allows it to capture stills and short video clips, store them, and share them with other devices and users through wireless communications technologies.
|
|
The term camera phone commonly refers to cellphones with a built in digital camera, that allows it to capture stills and short video clips, store them, and share them with other devices and users through wireless communications technologies.
The first mobile picture phone prototype, entitled the Intellect, was invented in 1993 by Daniel A Henderson, and now resides in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The Intellect was a hand held cell phone with a large monochrome display that could receive and display digital picture and video data sent by a wireless transmitter, and pioneered many of the technologies and protocols that were to find their way into the modern camera phone.
During the nineties, there were several attempts to combine mobile phones with digital camera technology. Camera manufacturers Kodak and Olympus demonstrated several digital camera/mobile phone combinations at trade shows during the nineties, and Apple tried a different tack with a combined mobile videophone and PDA. Impressive as these devices were, they lacked one crucial element of the modern day cameraphone – they could not connect to the internet, and were therefore unable to quickly and easily share images with other users, without physical connection to a computer.
The first camera phone to be able to do this, the Sharp J-SH04, was released commercially in Japan in 2001, with a US release the following year.
By 2006, over half of the mobile phones in use had a built in camera, and the popularity of the cameraphone has forced two of the worlds biggest camera manufacturers, Minolta and Konica, to stop making cameras altogether.
Today, there are over two billion camera phones in use globally, and that figure is predicted to rise exponentially in the years to come.
Footage shot by citizen journalists on cameraphones has even started to crop up on major television news bulletins. The first major international breaking news story to use cameraphone footage in this way was the 2005 Boxing Day Tsunami.
With the advent of video sharing platforms such as Youtube, and its rapid acceptance as a format for breaking news footage, cameraphone footage has become an increasing part of the visual fabric of our culture.
|
|
|
|
Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_A short history of the camera phone _1028.aspx
|
|
Author Resource :
Vodafone stock a great range of mobiles if you are looking to upgrade, or sim cards if you already have your phone of choice.
|
|
Keywords :
mobile, sim only,
Category :
Communications
:
Mobile Phones
|
|
|
|
