21 Facts About Camera phones

Camera phones phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras.

Some camera phones are designed to resemble separate low-end digital compact cameras in appearance and to some degree in features and picture quality, and are branded as both mobile phones and cameras—an example being the 2013 Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.

Principal advantages of camera phones are cost and compactness; indeed for a user who carries a mobile phone anyway, the addition is negligible.

Since the late 2010s, high-end smartCamera phones typically have multiple lenses with different functions, to make more use of a device's limited physical space.

Some more expensive camera phones have only a few of these technical disadvantages, but with bigger image sensors, their capabilities approach those of low-end point-and-shoot cameras.

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When viewed vertically from behind, the rear camera module on some mobile phones is located in the top center, while other mobile phones have cameras located in the upper left corner.

The Sprint wireless carriers deployed over one million camera phones manufactured by Sanyo and launched by the PictureMail infrastructure developed and managed by LightSurf.

One of these examples was the Nokia Fun Camera phones announced together with the Nokia 3100 in June 2003.

For example, 2160p recording is capped to five minutes on Samsung flagship smartCamera phones released before 2016, ten minutes on the Galaxy Note 7, four minutes on the Galaxy Alpha, and six minutes on the HTC One M9.

Camera phones were enabled by DCT-based compression standards, including the H 26x and MPEG video coding standards introduced from 1988 onwards, and the JPEG image compression standard introduced in 1992.

Camera phones phone was patented by Kari-Pekka Wilska, Reijo Paajanen, Mikko Terho and Jari Hamalainen, four employees at Nokia, in 1994.

Cameras on cell phones proved popular right from the start, as indicated by the J-Phone in Japan having had more than half of its subscribers using cell phone cameras in two years.

In 2003, more camera phones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras largely due to growth in Japan and Korea.

High-end camera phones usually had a relatively good lens and high resolution.

Major manufacturers of cameras for phones include Sony, Toshiba, ST Micro, Sharp, Omnivision, and Aptina .

The hundreds of millionsof camera phones sold every year provide the same opportunities, yet these functions are altered and allow for a different user experience.

Camera phones have enabled everyone to exercise freedom of speech by quickly communicating to others what they see with their own eyes.

Camera phones have been used to discreetly take photographs in museums, performance halls, and other places where photography is prohibited.

Some modern camera phones have big sensors, thus allowing a street photographer or any other kind of photographer to take photos of similar quality to a semi-professional camera.

Some smartCamera phones can provide an augmented reality overlay for 2D objects and to recognize multiple objects on the phone using a stripped down object recognition algorithm as well as using GPS and compass.

Total bans on camera phones would raise questions about freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, since camera phone ban would prevent a citizen or a journalist from communicating to others a newsworthy event that could be captured with a camera phone.