The Rise of the Camera Phone
Its no secret… I love my N95. The only phone i would replace it with is the highly rumoured N95 8Gb Black Edition (pictures of which have just surfaced).
Having said that, another thing i love is Flickr’s Camera Finder which plots which cameras users are using to submit photos to the flickr community.
Up until a while ago it was no surprise that the leaders of the pack were Cannon, Nikon, and the newly launched Sony SLR.
Today however when i visited the site i noticed a sharp drop in the instances of photos submitted by these fine SLRs. I did a little digging and here is what i found:
The % dip in the usage of the SLR cameras is more than made up for by the % rise in the usage of quality HD cameraphones like the N95, Sony Ericsson .
From the figures it would seem like the bulky SLRs (and uni-gadgets) are being traded in for more versatile gadgets that do more than one thing well. Personally i dont think SLRs are in any danger of being phased out, they will probably just be used less as time goes by.
Check out the camera finder graph :
Here are some great camera phones you should check out:
Nokia N73
Sony Ericsson K910i
LG enV VX9900
This is really interesting. I am sooooooo behind the times having a phone with no camera at all. I was recently made fun of for my phone, actually
Can’t wait to get my hands on that N95 of yours!