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Camera phone video function does not always capture the best-quality images. Camera phones can take video that is dark or difficult to see during playback. Sound from camera phone video can also be muffled or distorted. Having strong knowledge of your camera phone and a good idea of the best conditions for video capture will make you... more »
The cameras in cell phones are getting better all the time. Sony Ericsson has a 3.2-megapixel camera phone on the market and Nokia just released a phone with a 5-megapixel camera. Many new models come standard with a 2-megapixel camera. With these powerful tiny cameras you can take spectacular photos comparable to standard digital... more »
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Cameras have become one of the most sought after accessories on cell phones. The chance to instantly transmit photos is just irresistible. Camera phones are fast becoming the biggest seller of all the choices of cell phones. They are no longer considered something people want, but rather something they need. more »
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:See also: Mobile phone and Videophone. For the song performed by The Game, Feat and Ne-Yo see: Camera Phone (song)
A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture either still photographs or motion video. Today more than half of all mobile phones in use are camera phones.
History
The camera phone, like many complex systems, is the result of converging and enabling technologies. There are dozens of relevant patents dating back as far as the 1960s. Compared to digital cameras of the 1990s, a consumer-viable camera in a mobile phone would require far less power and a higher level of camera electronics integration to permit the miniaturization. The CMOS active pixel image sensor "camera-on-a-chip" developed by Dr. Eric Fossum and his team in the early 1990s achieved the first step of realizing the modern camera phone as described in a March 1995 Business Week article. While the first camera phones, as successfully marketed by J-Phone in Japan, used CCD sensors and not CMOS sensors, more than 90% of camera phones sold today use CMOS image sensor technology.
Over the years there have been many videophones and cameras that include communications technologies. None of them had focused on the integration with the wireless Internet which would allow instant media sharing with anyone anywhere. Such experiments included, for example, a device that was known as the Apple Videophone/PDA in 1995.. There were several digital cameras with cellular phone transmission capability shown by companies such as Kodak, Olympus in the early 90s There was also a digital camera with cellular phone designed by Shosaku Kawashima of Canon in Japan in May 1997.
On June 11, 1997, Philippe Kahn instantly shared the first pictures from the maternity ward where his daughter Sophie was born, with more than 2000 family, friends and associates around the world. A sharing infrastructure and an integrated cell-phone and camera combo augured the birth of in read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera+phone
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