Camera Phone
InventorPhilippe Kahn
Year1997
CategoryCommunication
OriginUSA
About Camera Phone
Kahn rigged a digital camera to his phone to share photos of his newborn daughter. The first commercial camera phone was the J-Phone in Japan, 2000. By 2006, more photos were taken by phones than by all cameras combined. Over 1.7 trillion photos are taken annually now.
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