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Team on 25 June 2007
Handset makers to raise image quality
Study concludes that the installed base of camera phones will exceed one billion in 2007.
The latest camera phone market evaluation from Strategy Analytics: "CMOS beats CCD in half-billion global camera phone market", concludes that the installed base of camera phones will exceed one billion in 2007, as mature market replacement sales above 1Mpixel and emerging market first digital camera phone purchases (typically VGA) continue to drive sales Neil Mawston, Associate Director and Chief Mobile Imaging Analyst, comments: "Camera phones have been a huge success, with unit sales rising from three million in 2001 to 500 million last year"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As CCD continues to lose the sensor wars in the mobile space, Micron, Omnivision and other CMOS vendors have been the prime beneficiaries".
David Kerr, Vice President of the Global Wireless Practice, adds: "The camera phone market is now entering its third phase where the focus will move from megapixel and basic image enablement to the quality of the imaging experience".
"In North America, and Western Europe, 1Mpixel devices are now table stakes, while niche devices with 5Mpixel or more will rise to over 2% of sales this year".
"Features such as zoom, flash and autofocus will become critical differentiators in 2008 and beyond".
The report also concludes that global camera phone handset revenues will grow to over US $120 billion by 2011 when one-third of the world population will own a camera phone.
Nokia, although not first to market in this class, is the clear market leader at 28% global share, and Motorola also shipped over 100 million units in the last 12 months.
Honourable mention must also go to SEMC, which has raised the user experience bar for camera phones with its Cybershot range, and has outperformed in this category as well as in the music domain.
VGA camera phones' share of the market will fall from 38% to under 7% over the forecast period.
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