Remembering the good old days when the first camera phone was launched

First camera phone:  Cameras hold the limelight when it comes to buying cell phones. Highlighting specification of a smartphone is its camera quality. Why is camera so important? This the first thing that needs to be reflected on. People love capturing the moment as they see in reality, to keep a lorry full of memory, which can make them feel the same way as they felt in that past moment, simply a bundle of nostalgic moments.

We live in the “Gadgets world”. To us camera is an obvious feature of cell phone, what matters to us is the quality of camera, the mega pixel variation it has. But have you ever imagined the time, the feeling, excitement, enthusiasm of people when first camera phone was launched. It was something new, something spectacular, something unexpected that actually happened. Which twisted people with a bunch of gushing emotions. They could now carry a handy camera whenever, where ever they want to.

Some facts related to the launch of the first camera phone

Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210
  • The first commercial cellphone with a camera was launched in Japan, Kyocera visual phone VP-210 in 1999.
  • It had a 0.11-megapixel camera that could take up to 20 images before showing out of storage.
  • The price of this phone in Japan was 40,000 yen.
  • The second mobile phone that was launched just the next year after the launch of Kyocera was by Samsung, launching its first-ever camera cell phone of 0.35 megapixel SCH-V200.
Samsung SCH- V200
  • The first U.S. based phone with a camera was launched named the Sanyo SCP- 5300. It had a clamshell shape, costing up to $400 and camera quality of 0.3 megapixels.
Sanyo SCP- 5300
  • First camera phone to launch in India as Nokia 7650, with a camera quality of 0.3 megapixels, launched in 2002, it could transmit photos through GPRS, Bluetooth, and Infrared.
Nokia 7650

Every revolution has a beginning and these camera phones then launched were beginning of a revolution. This innovation then and now has a complete 360-degree change, the camera quality, the quality of cell phones, the intensity of best using this feature has completely changed. Now it is absolutely difficult to imagine cell phones without a camera and life without it. The innovation then will be cherished for the entire life.

The first camera phone was not just a revolution to the manufactured cell phone, but it created a hope to achieve the unimaginable, people did imbibe this feeling which further lead to more unimaginable revolutions, and which has built-in the feeling that there is nothing like unachievable. to know more continue on talepost.


Medhavi Singh: Medical professional, Writer and an Author. Aspiring to merge three and lead science to a different parameter.