Picture Today's Hottest Cell Phone
by Aretha Rudford
The mobile generation is riding a new wave of convenience. Camera phones are quickly replacing basic cell phones as the gadgets of choice for today's on-the-move market.
These days, almost everyone has a cell phone. From Bluetooth and WAP-enabled phones to infrared-based models, we simply can't live without them. There are almost as many cell phones on the street as there are pedestrians. If you're not convinced, try a little experiment to prove it to yourself:
Have a friend call you on your cell phone while you stand on a crowded street corner or in a shopping mall. Then, when your handset rings, look around and see how many people are checking their phones. You really will be surprised.
Cell phone use has caught on like wildfire, and it's not at all surprising. These phones are compact, affordable and ultra-convenient. Users can stay in touch from virtually any location, and make or receive calls to or from any almost anywhere in the world. What may be surprising is the fact that so many people are trading up to new camera phones.
Modern cell phones are something like Swiss army knives, filled with handy functions. A simple touch of a button will allow users to play games, send and receive text messages and email, surf the Internet, organize appointments and, or course, make and receive phone calls. All of these tasks can be accomplished while the user goes about his or her daily business: at work, in a restaurant, on the bus or on the golf course. The newest advancement in cell phone technology is the ability to take photographs. It's such an exciting step that many cell phone users are ditching perfectly good handsets and replacing them with new camera phones.
Camera phones were first introduced to the Japanese market several years ago. These new cell phones immediately caught on with Asian cell phone users. It wasn't until a few years later, however, that camera phones were widely marketed in the US and became available to the masses. At first, they weren't overly popular. As soon as people began to see the extreme convenience afforded by a camera morphed with a cell phone, the devices became so well liked that some have predicted that they may become the most popular consumer device in history.
According to industry analysts, camera phones comprised 12% of the total cell phones sold in 2003, and predicted those numbers to rapidly climb. A research firm called IDC suggested that more than 80 million camera cell phones have been sold worldwide.
You may ask yourself, why not just carry a phone and a camera? You'll know the difference when you spot the perfect sunset at the beach, with your camera locked in the trunk of your car three miles up the shore. Or you'll notice the difference when you bump into your favorite movie star at a busy restaurant, whip out your camera phone for an impromptu photo shoot, and email the photo proof to your buddies just seconds later.
Having a digital camera built into a cell phone may seem like a novelty or a luxury, but there's no better way to capture life's most perfect moments, and hold them for a lifetime.
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