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The Evolution of Cell Phone Camera Over the Ages
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The Evolution of Cell Phone Camera Over the Ages

In today’s day and age, no one can do without a camera phone or a smart phone. Imagine using a mobile phone without a camera! However, not very long ago humanity survived without these creatures. Being part of that era, I vividly remember in the year 2000, when the SCH-V200 by Samsung was launched in South Korea. It was the first cell phone with a built in digital camera, which was capable of taking 20 photos. As a five-year old, that was more exciting to me than a trampoline. Although, some argue that the first camera phone was produced by Sharp in Japan. In 2002, the U.S followed the Japanese trend. Sprint launched Sanyo SCP-5300, it had a flash, digital zoom, self timer and few filter effects. In 2004, Sprint launched another phone Audiovox PM8920 with variety of camera settings incl...