Worldwide Camera Phone Installed Base Tops 1.5 Billion in 2010
8 August 2006 by axxxr According to a new forecast by Lyra Research, the digital imaging authority camera phones have now become the most prevalent image-capture devices in the world. The global installed base of camera phones has now surpassed that of film and digital cameras combined. Lyra estimates that the installed base of camera phones will reach approximately 850 million units in 2006, and this number is expected to grow to more than 1.5 billion units in 2010 (see figure). This camera phone market forecast is the latest addition to Lyra's Consumer Imaging Intelligence service. The complete forecast includes projections of camera phone unit shipments by sensor resolution and the numbers of images being captured, saved, and printed from this nascent class of devices. "In less than five years since the very inception of this product category, camera phones have gone from nonexistent to predominant," comments Steve Hoffenberg, Lyra's director of consumer imaging research. "We're still in the early stages of market development for mobile imaging. Picture quality is still immature, and market penetration has largely been supply-side driven," adds Hoffenberg. "But camera phone picture quality will improve substantially over the next several years, upstream transmission bandwidth will increase, and consumers will become increasingly familiar with the incredible inherent benefit of wireless connectivity for images." Attend Lyra's Camera Phone Presentation at Photokina
Comments On 28 Aug 20:33 rotceh wrote "YES digital camaras, WE Phones are taking over the world of Digital Imaging!!!!! jajajajajajaja" sounded stupid right? soo those statistics On 26 Aug 12:55 Simith wrote Why do you guys think it is not an approximate figure? On 10 Aug 17:17 antichrist wrote those statistics are bulls**t.i don't see the use of those statistics On 10 Aug 13:50 salmankundi wrote k800i nothing to talk about this set complete set nothing to ask that this is bad On 9 Aug 21:05 ttusandman wrote prolly based on units made and units sold On 9 Aug 17:48 HOLLAND wrote i realy wonder HOW they calculate those statistics :? |