November 6, 2003

Removing the camera from the phone

Found this on Gizmodo. Alan Reiter on Reiter's Camera Phone Report, brings up an eWeek study on an interesting new trend: cellphone carriers asking manufacturers to start offering versions of their phones without the digital cameras built-in.

Why? Because for security reasons their business customers don't want to issue their employees cellphones that can potentially snap pictures of sensitive company material and documents. Verizon has already asked Samsung to develop a camera-free version of the i700 and Sprint is talking to Handspring/palmOne/whoever about doing the same thing for the Treo 60.

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