Phonecam sales surpass digital cameras, worldwide

A milestone for consumer camera phones:

For the first time, global sales of camera-enabled mobile handsets surpassed sales of conventional digital cameras in the first half of 2003. According to results reported by Strategy Analytics, mobile phone makers shipped 25 million handsets with built-in cameras worldwide in the first half of the year. This number is compared with four million in the year-earlier period.

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