A picture is worth a thousand SMSs

I recently purchased a cameraphone (Nokia 3200), and I'm pleasantly surprised by the pictures I'm able to snap -- like this one from my son's swimming class. For casual, unobtrusive documentation of everyday life, it's good enough for now.

According to a new research report, cameraphone sales are expected to reach 150 million in 2004, and 650 million in 2008 (based on a compounded annual growth rate of 55%). That's going to enable of LOT of user-generated content on the network. I wonder what kinds of games and services people are going to invent that take advantage of social groups who're all equipped with cameraphones?

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[Kati]

There was a graphic in a recent Business 2.0 that showed that in 2003 global shipments of camera phones were higher than those of regular digital cameras for the first time. I was very suprised to see that, but then i saw a photo taken at a big red-carpet-equipped event in Asia (LOTR premiere maybe?) where teenagers who were in trance from seeing some celeb walk down the carpet, were not holding any cameras, but their latest camera-equipped phone to snap the paparazzi picture.