Monday, November 04, 2002
Posted by Roberto
9:55 AM
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CAMERA PHONE MARKET
9.5 million mobile camera phones were sold around the world in the first nine months of 2002, of which 7.9 million in Japan alone and 97 percent of that total in the Asia Pacific region (Source: U.S. market research group Strategy Analytics)
The market for camera phones, which allow users to take and send pictures straight from the handset, is growing rapidly to 4.6 million units sold in the third quarter from 3.2 million in the second.
It is still a fairly small part of the entire mobile phone market, which expects sales of some 400 million units this year (Nokia has 37% market share).
Japan's Sharp, which is not even in the top 10 of mobile voice handset makers, was the leading camera phone supplier, having sold three million units to consumers in the period. Japan's NEC and Matsushita's Panasonic, Toshiba, Casio and South Korea Samsung Electronics were giving Sharp strong competition.
In Western Europe, where Nokia's and Sony Ericsson's camera phones have been on sale since the summer, only 200,000 units were sold in the third quarter.
Japanese vendors like Sharp are now coming to Europe, leveraging their two years of experience with local operators seeking to copy the success of aggressive Asian mobile carriers.
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