July 3, 2003
Camera phone usage roundup
Daithi O Hanluain for New York Times writes a long and thorough essay on camera phone usage (good and bad).
... Used for celebrity spotting, camera phones are sure to become powerful as witnesses to news events or crime and are finding uses in medicine, firefighting and crime prevention. The entertainment industry has already adopted them. In the US, photoblogs proliferate, websites where users can post their photocam shots from the web or on the fly, from their cell phones.
Hanluain covers the privacy issues; phone bans in locker rooms around the world, the Press angle; fashion webzine Showstudio scopping the Paris fashion shows, BBC's accepting photographs of news events from readers...
Nothing you haven't read uh, in picturephoning before.
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