do you call this as a phone??????

 who is the leading producer of cameras????.
a)canon
b)nikon
c)kodak
d)sony
 e)none of these

guess the answer the answer is nokia. :P this shows how far the camera phones have  from the normal phones.cell phones are becoming multi-functional more than the way you expect.You can attatch a small lens to your iphone and convert it into a telescope.you can wear it as a watch.Recently samsung released the world's first 10 megapixel mobile SCH-B600 phone in Korean market.Samsung has been the first to introduce mobile phone with embedded camera in 2000. Samsung has also launched the world's first 5 megapixel camera phone in October 2004 ; the world's first 7 megapixel camera phone in July 2005.

normal camera compared with the samsung phone.

Samsung's SCH-B600 is 6mm thinner and 10g lighter than the 7 megapixel camera phone (SCH-V770) and sets itself apart from its previous megapixel camera phones by combining mobile TV capability in Satellite standard.
Samsung B600 Feautres:

10 megapixel the camera (self-focusing and flash)

Wool one t.v (satellite DMB)

Music & Image player

Screen: 16000000 colors TFT LCD 2.2", 240x320 pixel resolution

Voice recognition function

Outside market memory: MMCmicro

File Browser function

Visiting card recognition function

samsung sch b500 is a parent of 600 version with the 7.7 mega pixel sensor the phone looks like this.The phone is more of a camera than a phone.

  

click here to see comparison between 500 and 600 versions.

Currently in the market there are a lot of mobile phones availble with 8mp camera.

cameraphones advantages:

camera+phone
more battery life
less space
costs less
more support 

Sony Ericsson C905 with 8mp cam

Sales of camera phones crossed 40 million units per year world wide while the sales of the normal cameras are decreasing.For the first time after 74 years kodak company has been de-listed in the index in 2004.Hope the conventional camera manufacturing companies like kodak,nikon etc might shift to camera phones in the future.Here are some of the 8 mega pixel phones available in the market.

Here's phones from sony erricson

Sony Ericsson C905, the codename Shiho, could be the best camera phone with its 8.1 megapixel camera module.It has also lot of features like by the auto focus, a face recognition, image stabilization, red-eye reduction and Xenon flash module. The Xenon flash module can also be used to help the video recording in low light condition. The camera phone is also a new feature called smart contrast