How smart does your phone need to be?

Mobile phones come with ever more features; whether we use them is crucial to a billion-dollar industry. The BBC reports.

Take camera phones. They were derided at first. Today half of all mobile phone users in the UK take pictures with their mobiles, and a quarter send them on.

Camera phones have been a "phenomenal success" says Paul Goode, senior analyst at m:metrics, a consulting firm.

Now the industry hopes that mobile data - web, e-mail, music downloads - will be the next goldmine. "

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