More Camera Phones Sold in 2004 Than Digital Still Cameras

According to a report by Strategy Analytics, almost four times more people bought camera phones than digital still cameras in 2004.In sales numbers, 257 million camera phones were sold worldwide in 2004, compared with the 68 million digital cameras sold.

This growth in the camera phone market will mean harder competition for the market leaders, such as Eastman Kodak, Canon and Fuji, in the digital still camera market in the coming years as well.

However, according to research by Mintel, about 70 billion photos were taken with camera phones last year, but only about 1/3 of the users upload the pictures to computer and 1/3 are more likely to send the pictures to other phones.

As the picture quality of camera phones improves, so too will the numbers of people who upload the pictures to computers or send the pictures to other cell phones.


From Camera Phones 2004 page to Broadband Guide index