The Journey of Cameras: From Obscura to Smartphone

9. Mobile Phone with Camera in 2000

J-Phone is the first to implement camera in Phone successfully. J-Phone is a Japanese mobile company which introduced camera mobile in 2000 and within two years half of the Japanese were using camera mobiles. In 2003 many companies started manufacturing camera phones and in 2005 Nokia become world’s most sold camera phone brand.

10.  Smartphones

Today the smartphones are making buzz in the camera world, you can find one or the other capturing photos without any limits using smartphones. These smartphone cameras are capable of capturing 1080p HD video and take 8 MP photos. Nokia N8 was the first smartphone featuring 12 MP Autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics lens.