June 27, 2005
Camera phones and digital cameras to complement and co-exist
According to The Straits Times, Even though they integrate functions typically found in digital still cameras, camera phones will not replace them.
"Industry watchers who had forecast that cellphones - with their increasingly advanced features and greater portability - would give regular digital cameras a run for their money - may not have been right.
An International Data Corp report on the top 10 predictions for the 2005 consumer market in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan seems to indicate otherwise.
The IT research agency predicts that camera phones and digital cameras will complement one another and co-exist.
Despite the blurring boundaries between the camera and the phone, IDC believes digital cameras will always be one step ahead of camera phones in terms of photography functionality.
It argues that digital cameras tend to be used for more meaningful occasions while camera phones tend to be used for spur-of-the-moment events.
Cellphone and digital camera companies generally agree with this assessment".
And interesting... "digital still camera manufacturers find that increasing interest in photography, brought about by the ubiquity of the camera phone,is actually leading to a rise in demand for digital cameras".
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