Camera Phone First Invented
A complete history of the camera phone.
Camera phone first invented. While kahn s wife was enduring a long and exhausting labor with their baby sophie kahn was tinkering with a different labor. The original iphone and the htc dream t mobile g1 were the first smartphones in the modern sense of the word and both arrived with cameras onboard. So was philippe kahn s daughter. A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built in digital cameras.
The invention of the camera phone is a story as old as time. It can also send the resulting image over the telephone function. Philippe kahn invented the camera phone in june 1997. The camera phone was born in santa cruz on june 11th 1997.
The first commercial camera phone was the kyocera visual phone vp 210 released in japan in may 1999. It was a cordless phone as distinct from a cellular mobile phone. Camera phone sanyo scp 5300. The first commercial camera phone was the j sh04 made by sharp.
Samsung sharp built the first camera phone. There s a heartwarming story making its way around the technology press about how borland founder philippe kahn invented the camera phone in a hospital room while his wife was having a baby. Philippe kahn instantly shared the first pictures from the maternity ward where his daughter sophie was born with more than 2000 family friends and associates around the world.