Global camera phone sales rise five-fold in 2003: Survey

• 2004-03-30 • Quoting a recent survey Reuters reports that one in six mobile phones sold last year had a digital camera in it, an almost five-fold increase over 2002, with Asian vendors leading the way. US-based market research group Strategy Analytics said 84 million camera phones were sold, or 16 per cent of the total handset market, compared with 18 million in 2002.

The camera phone market overtook the digital compact camera market, which amounted to 49 million units worldwide. Pictures taken with a mobile phone are of much lower quality than those snapped with digital cameras, in part due to less advanced light sensor chips. Mobile phones are also too small to contain lenses that can zoom and focus, although phones with such lenses could be on the market in the next few years.

Japan’s NEC, which does not even show up in the overall top six of global handset vendors, topped the camera phone table with 13.1 million units shipped. Finland’s Nokia, stood second at 11 million units, while Samsung Electronics sold 10 million during the year.

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