Research And Markets: The Annual Sales Volume Of Camera Phones Reached 84 Million Handsets For 2003, Increasing Almost Five Times From 18 Million Handsets Of 2002.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- According to the statistics, the annual sales volume of camera phones reached 84 million handsets for 2003, increased almost five times than 18 million handsets of 2002, accounting for 16% of the total sales volume of global handsets, and expected to reach 170 million handsets for 2004, double times of that for last year. In 2003, there were about 6.5 million camera phones sold in China's market, increased 528% against last year. The sales of camera phones is expected to reach 1.176 million handsets for 2004, a increase of 80% against last year, accounting for 12% of the total sales of domestic handset market.

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c9514) has announced the addition of 2004 General Research Analysis on Camera Phones Industry to their offering

In order to have a comprehensive perspective into the competition landscape of global camera handset market and the relationship of supply-chains; to understand the key technologies and market developments for Camera Phones; to analyze the cooperative relationship between the upstream vendors and downstream vendors in camera phone industry and the market performance; to gain a insight into the opportunities in global camera phone market and know about the demands conditions for camera phones from the consumers this report has dug out deeply the information and data related to more than a hundred enterprises in camera industry and translated the reports and articles concerned; and finally compiled General Research Analysis on Camera Phones Industry for 2004 through collection, analysis and researches, which has more than 200 pages for the whole text, and contains more than 200 figures and tables.

The sales market of camera phones is very promising all the way, which is mainly thanks to the powerful function of the camera phone for amusement. As the handset is a portable communication tools, the convenience of a camera phone is far beyond the digital camera. For the past two years, although the pixels of camera phones are not satisfactory, the camera phones have been widely recognized from the consumers.

The factors that further promote the spreading of the camera phones also include the following aspects:

--More and more new brands, intensified competition, the constant price decrease of the camera phones

--The price of the camera phones at middle grade equals to that of household digital camera, camera phones take shares from the market of household digital cameras.

--The operators and providers of contents have been actively introducing value added services based on camera phones and further help the prosperity of camera phones.

All the major vendors have increased the input for camera phone. At the end of 2003, Motorola launched 8 new built-in camera phones in a row.

Meanwhile, Nokia announced that the new handsets launched later on would all contain the video. Japan's NEC is the largest camera phone provider

in the world, occupied 16% of the global camera phone market shares of 2003, and above 90% of its shipment of handsets for the last year featured camera models.

Camera phone constantly strives for high pixels

The camera phones that were newly launched in 2004 reached the level of million pixels in general. For Panda, SED, Bird, Amoi, the camera phones with million pixels have already been or will be launched in 2004. TCL also announced that the camera phones with 3 million pixels would be launched by the end of 2004.

If the camera phones reach the level of 2 million pixels, its picture quality is close to that of the film for analog cameras, and thus can satisfied the ordinary demands from the consumers .The Variable Focal Lenses with 2 million pixels is the mainstay for household cameras. The camera phones with these two technical indices have been on the market, SharpSH505iS, SharpSH900i, Nokia7610, Samsung SPHGBP V4400 are all the camera phones with 2 million pixels.

For leading the trends of handsets markets, the vendors from Japan , Europe and South Korea have formed a situation of tripartite confrontation. In May 2004, CASIO launched the world's first camera phone with focus lens and 3 million pixels. In the early July, South Korea's Samsung launched the world's second camera phone with focus lens and 3 million pixels. Moreover, Samsung is now striving to deliver a camera phone with 5 million pixels as soon as possible.

The contents of this report are as follows:

Chapter one: Analysis on the current condition and development trends of camera phone industry

Chapter Two: Vendors for core accessories

Chapter three: Analysis on camera phone manufacturers

Chapter four: Analysis on consumption and application of camera phones

Chapter Five: Analysis on global camera handsets market

Chapter Six: Conclusions and suggestions

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