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VIPs: Virally Interactive Pixels

  • February 2004
  • By Michael Schrage

Millions of Japanese schoolgirls can't be wrong: there's always a market for instant gratification.

   

I was wrong. Utterly. I honestly believed digital-camera cell phones were a silly, bandwidth-hogging gimmick more appropriate to the giggling-Japanese-schoolgirl market than to harried American motor-mouths. Foolish me.

Camera phones threaten to surpass DVD players as the personal technology devices with the fastest-growing market in history. Analysts estimate that 57 million camera phones were sold worldwide in 2003, compared to 44 million stand-alone digital cameras. Nokia says most of its new phones will have built-in cameras. Say "cheese."

 

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