The first commercial camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, launched in Japan in May 1999. It was called a “mobile videophone” on the time, and had a 110,000-pixel front-facing digicam. It could send as much as two photographs per second over Japan’s Personal Handy-phone System cellular community, and store as much as 20 JPEG digital images, which could presumably be despatched over e-mail. The first mass-market digicam phone was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model sold in Japan in November 2000. It could immediately transmit photos via cell phone telecommunication.
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