Mobile phones started to incorporate digital cameras from 2001 when first introduced in Japan by J-Phone. The most rapidly spread technology of all time, these cameraphones reached a billion devices sold in only five years. By 2007 more than half of the installed base of all mobile phones was of the cameraphone type. In 2003 more cameraphones were sold than all stand-alone digital cameras and in 2006 more cameraphones sold than all film-based cameras and digital cameras combined.
Cameraphones tend to be at the very lowest end of the scale of digital cameras in technical specificiations, such as low resolution cameras, poor quality optics, and limited abilities to use accessories. With the rapid development of digital technologies, however, the gap between mainstream digital cameras and cameraphones is closing and high-end cameraphones are competitive with low end stand-alone digital cameras of the same generation.
Cameraphones tend to be at the very lowest end of the scale of digital cameras in technical specificiations, such as low resolution cameras, poor quality optics, and limited abilities to use accessories. With the rapid development of digital technologies, however, the gap between mainstream digital cameras and cameraphones is closing and high-end cameraphones are competitive with low end stand-alone digital cameras of the same generation.
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