Shoot first, talk later

Mobile phone makers race to take lead in megapixel camera phone battle. The Traits Times reports.

"Not satisfied with (by now) measly 3-megapixel shooters, phone makers are frantically squeezing up to 5 megapixels worth of cameras into their puny handsets.

Sony Ericsson and Samsung, for instance, have just unveiled their 5-megapixel shooters this month. And even before you can say 'cheese', the new range of 10-megapixel phones are already in the works.

Samsung, for instance, has just unveiled the world's first 10-megapixel mobile phone, the SCH-B600.

Not to be outdone, camera lens maker Carl Zeiss says that its next generation of 10-megapixel cellphones will soon hit the shelves.

That is something, especially as most professional cameras have not even reached that level yet.

The surge in pixel numbers seems to be meeting the needs of local users, evident in the large number of people buying these devices.

Research firm GFK Asia says that 1.05 million camera-enabled cellphones flew off the shelves in the first six months of this year, an increase of 13 per cent over the same period in 2006."

Camera phones also made up nearly 83 per cent of all mobile phone sales in the first half of this year, with sales rising 18 per cent over the same period last year to about 870,000 units."

Picture left, Samsung's 7-megapixel camera phone.

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