March 28, 2006
Cameraphone insight
EETimes offers some interesting insight on cameraphone usage, in an article outlining what they're missing to really compete with standalone digital cameras.
-- Studies have found that "90 percent of camera phone users never print pictures they take with their camera phones," said Philippe Quinio, marketing director of the imaging division at at STMicroelectronics.
-- More specifically, 7 billion images captured by mobile phones have never been uploaded or printed, said Rutie Adar, director of product marketing at CMOS imager developer TransChip Inc.
-- Many consumers never bother to learn how to move pictures out of their phones. Even those who figure it out assume the images are too low-quality to print.
-- Kodak draws a distinction between the camera phone and digital still camera by calling the former "a photo-capable device" and the latter "a photo-taking device."
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