Phone sales put pressure on digital camera

According to the The Telegraph, sales of the digital camera will fall for the first time this year as growing numbers of people rely on their mobile phones to take pictures.

According to Mintel, the market research agency, consumers have finally grown tired of the gadget that transformed the photography market and sales are predicted to fall from £951 ($1.947 )million to £890 ($1.822) million.

Fevzi Turkalp, founder of the
GadgetDetective.com , said that a range of new camera-phones out this year were causing the demise of the "small, point-and-shoot cameras."

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