ABI Research firm discovered that the mobile phones with built-in digital camera will reach sales power of cheap digital cameras within 2 years or even less.
Researchers found that buying a phone with 1.3 mega pixel camera will be unavoidable if you’re into owning any mobile phone type in couple of months because of the huge development of new generation mobile phones, and next year will be sold more then digital cameras with VGA resolution. Further on, large mobile phone companies will produce mobile phones with 2, 3, 4 mega pixel cameras and they will accomplish to destroy digital camera market. According to Kenet Hayers from ABI Research, within two years, the quality of digital cameras in mobile phones will be extraordinary, so that the users wouldn’t even consider buying “one featured” digital camera when they can have all in one gadget for the same price.Â
Researchers found as well that mobile phone market will be organized and sorted according to the overall quality. Major mobile phone companies have different style and approach to the world market. For example, Motorola prefers producing cheaper models which are more accessible to mobile phone lowers, while Sony Ericsson, Samsung and of course Nokia produce phones with cameras, mp3 players and even chips that can bring the SonyPlaystation type of graphics to the games on the tinny phone screen.
Those forecasts confirm data from another research company called IDC, that even if there is an increase in digital cameras selling, their selling tread is lower then it was and is getting even lower every day. In the first half this year, digital cameras market grew 20% if compared to first half previous year. Last year, the same period, increase in sale was 50% and the year before that even more.
So there you have it. Cannon and the other leading camera developers will be a bit worried to hear this, but I’m sure they will come up with something or they would have to consider joining the new era. Mobile phones era.