Cell phone photo boom: One billion Mobile Camera phones in use

Posted on June 24, 2007
Filed Under photo business & marketing

According to a study by Strategy Analytics Ltd. the wordwide number of mobile camera phones in use will top one billion this year, reflecting their tremendous growth rate since the first Mobile camera phones hit the market in early 200o. As the British researchers found out, mobile camera phone sales shot up from about three million camera phones in 2001 to 500 million in 2006 - a pretty impressive growth rate within five years. However, the reaserch group evaluating the data strongly believe the growth will start to level off now. (SK)