February 18, 2005
Experts Debate Future Of Cameraphones
'While mobile phone cameras represent the largest and fastest growing market for solid-state image sensors, the continued success of mobile camera phones may not be assured.
Experts at the International Solid State Circuits Conference here debated whether a “killer application” is needed to boost demand for camera phones long after the novelty of taking pictures with the cellphone has worn off.
“Every year we have a new higher projection for the camera phones market,” said panel moderator Jed Hurwitz of ST Microelectronics (Edinburgh, Scotland). “In 2004, mobile phone vendors introduced the first handsets with image sensors that had 3.2 million pixels. And Samsung promises 10 million pixels by the end of the year. But will consumers care?”'
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Posted by Darren at February 18, 2005 05:30 PM
