{"id":1168,"date":"2003-08-18T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camera-phones-likely-christmas-presents"},"modified":"2003-08-18T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T21:36:59","slug":"camera-phones-likely-christmas-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Camera phones likely Christmas presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<p>Another source predicting around 60 million camera-phone handsets for this year (after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaywa.com\/p1142.html\">Qualcomm study<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosync.no\/news\/2002\/n\/3958.html\">Camera-phone market set to double by the end of the year says ARC Group analysts in Future Mobile Handsets 2003-2008 report<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a report released today by analyst firm ARC Group, by the end of 2003 more than 55 million consumers worldwide will own camera-phone handsets, more than doubling from the 25 million mobile units sold in 2002.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This year we have seen a massive growth in camera-enabled phones, with 15 per cent of handsets worldwide featuring built-in cameras or designated camera accessories,&#8221; commented David McQueen, ARC Group&#8217;s Senior Consultant and author of the Future Mobile Handsets 2003-2008 report. &#8220;Tempted by innovative design features such as rotational cameras and swivel screens, along with the advent of multimedia messaging, colour displays and polyphonic ring tones, we&#8217;ll see many consumers upgrading their mobile phones this Christmas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Swisscom predicts even a bit a larger growth: 150 instead of 100%. We will see how all this works out in December.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textually.org\/picturephoning\/archives\/001415.htm\">Emily<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another source predicting around 60 million camera-phone handsets for this year (after the Qualcomm study): Camera-phone market set to double by the end of the year says ARC Group analysts in Future Mobile Handsets&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kaywa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}