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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Limpag: Competition for low-end cameras
By Max Limpag
IMPROVING QUALITY. The image quality of camera is steadily increasing and two years from now, according to the Wall Street Journal, the product line will be eating up part of the market for lower-end digital cameras.
“Within the next two years, the quality of a mobile-phone camera will be such that people won’t need low-end, stand-alone digital cameras,” analyst Kenneth Hyers told the Cellular News website.
Hyers told the website: “We are in the midst of a megapixel race and by early 2006, 1.3 megapixel models will outsell VGA camera phones; in the following years, two-, three- and four-megapixel devices will replace the lower specification models.”
Other analysts say manufacturers may start to incorporate more features in their digital camera products to compete with higher-end camera phones.
These features include improved ability to share photos with other digital devices or computers.
Analysts says that by 2010, the number of digital still cameras world-wide will be 70 million, down from 85 million to 90 million in 2006. More people will be using their camera phones as primary photography device.
PRINTING. Another industry that is threatened by the increasing use of digital cameras is the photo printing business. More and more people are taking digital snapshots and sharing these either through e-mail, multimedia messaging or printing these using a desktop printer.
Many photo printers now have devices that allow you to print your photos through memory cards. And unlike before, many of them no longer charge for downloading – a really stupid idea that turned off a lot of users of digital cameras.
ANOTHER N-GAGE TITLE. Nokia has announced the launch of the Warhammer 40,000: Glory in Death in the N-Gage platform.
The game’s mobile version allows multiplayer war games via Bluetooth connection and the online gaming portal N-Gage Arena. Gregg Sauter, Nokia games publishing director, says “our version has maintained the original’s well designed systems and game play and provides fans with an authentic Warhammer 40,000 experience.”
Players control one of four races in the game: the Orks, Space Marines, Eldar and Chaos Marines. Each race has its own history and game style to master and control across four campaigns in one story. Users can either play in single player campaign mode or two player Hotseat with one N-Gage game deck, or two players via Bluetooth connection or through the N-Gage Arena.
(August 24, 2005 issue)
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