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With the global cameraphone market set to pass the 1 billion-handset mark this year, Strategy Analytics believes that the industry is entering its third-phase. The move from megapixel and features to quality and imaging experience will help drive the growth of the market – led by Finnish handset manufacturing giant Nokia and the US runner-up Motorola.
Neil Mawston, Strategy Analytics associate director and chief mobile imaging analyst, states that, “Camera phones have been a huge success, with unit sales rising from three million in 2001 to 500 million last year. As CCD continues to lose the sensor wars in the mobile space, Micron, Omnivision and other CMOS vendors have been the prime beneficiaries.”
We’re glad to hear some good news for Motorola – finally. The second-largest handset manufacturer in the world has had its run of bad press (and not to mention financial performance) in recent months, so it’s nice to give them a nod for their acheivment. We can only hope that Motorola takes this news as encouragement to get back to what they do best – churn out the innovative hits that once defined the company (hopefully without their crappy OS).
[Via: DigiTimes]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
