Nearly 50 Percent of Worldwide Mobile Phones Will Have a Camera in 2006

Gartner says 48 percent of cellular phones will incorporate cameras this year and 81 percent will have them by 2010, according to the research group's pressrelease.

"Worldwide sales of camera phones will account for 48 percent of total worldwide mobile phone sales in 2006, growing to 81 percent by 2010, according to new forecasts from Gartner.

For the past three years, the market has been dominated by sales of camera phones with less than one mega pixels. This will reach 51 percent of total mobile phone sales in 2006. By 2007, Gartner predicts that more than half of the camera phones will have at least one or two mega pixels.

[via Reiter's Camera Phone Report]

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