Second sight

This is the second article in a few days that says the novelty of using a camera phone is wearing off - for now. (cf previous post, Interest in picture messaging and moblogging is down)

Dave Birch in The Guardian sees a pattern, that "people like picture phones and think they are cool, but don't actually use them nearly as often as they thought they would.

To Birch "this may not be simple conservatism but a reflection of a deeper concern: that we have no "social infrastructure" for picture phones.

I'm not being negative he says. My feeling is that the use of picture phones will be stimulated by the provision of new services targeted at the average consumer, such as retail kiosks for printing or sending home pictures and video."

emily | 2:33 PM | Trends |
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