When I wrote about the slow demise of the pocket point-and-shoot camera and the rise of the cell phone camera, I got some pretty vocal feedback from digital photography enthusiasts and friends in the technology world. My declaration that it was time to stop worrying and love the cell phone camera illicited responses that generally fell into three categories:
There are now more phones loaded with Google’s Android smart phone software in the world than there are phones running any other phone “operating system”—including Windows Mobile. Blackberry, the Apple iPhone OS, or the Symbian OS used worldwide by Nokia and others. And with the introduction of “4G” data networks, wireless companies are planning on selling a lot more.
Sean M. Gallagher 