Europeans snap up camera phones

The poor quality of low-resolution photos taken by mobiles with built-in cameras has not prevented users paying money to send pictures via their phones, reports CNN.

The good news in numbers:

-- By December 2003, "the number of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) users in Western Europe will have risen to an estimated 4 million people.

-- By the end of this year, $51 million would have been spent on people using MMS, with this figure expecting to rise to $2,970 million by 2007, according to Tim Mui, senior analyst of mobile devices at IDC.

-- Picture messaging makes up 95 percent of all MMS according to Mui.

-- Camera phones are most popular in Britain, Germany and Italy, accounting for 58 percent of the total Western European camera phone market, according to Dunn.

-- The lowest sales are seen in Ireland".

emily | 1:48 PM | Random Stats |
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