Camera Phones Photography

The camera feature proved popular right from the start, as J-Phone in Japan had more than half of its subscribers using cameraphones in two years. The world soon followed. By 2003, more cameraphones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras. In 2004, Nokia became the world's most sold digital camera brand. In 2006, half of the world's mobile phones had a built-in camera. In 2008, Nokia sold more cameraphones than Kodak sells film based simple cameras, thus became the biggest manufacturer of any kind of camera. Due to the popularity of cameraphones, two of the four giant cameramakers, Minolta and Konica have quit the camera business altogether. At the end of 2008, the world installed base of cameraphones was 1.9 billion.
Major manufacturers include Toshiba, Sharp, Nokia, Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, and LG Electronics. Resolution is typically in the range of one tenth to one half as many megapixels as contemporary low end compact digital cameras.
Major manufacturers of cameras for phones include Toshiba, ST Micro, Sharp, Omnivision, and Aptina.