The mall’s latest fashion trend is not carried at Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger or J. Crew. Instead, young adults are flocking into Best Buy and Circuit City for the latest accessory: camera phones. The product’s low price and convenience have sparked a sales boom: Market research firm In-Stat/MDR, a division of Reed Elsevier PLC, found that vendors shipped 50 million camera phones worldwide in 2003, a dramatic increase from the 18.2 million units delivered the previous year.
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Camera Phones and the Future of Digital Photography
Posted by: Paul Korzeniowski March 6, 2004 01:30 AMThe mall’s latest fashion trend is not carried at Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger or J. Crew. Instead, young adults are flocking into Best Buy and Circuit City for the latest accessory: camera phones. The product’s low price and convenience have sparked a sales boom: Market research firm In-Stat/MDR, a division of Reed Elsevier PLC, found that vendors shipped 50 million camera phones worldwide in 2003, a dramatic increase from the 18.2 million units delivered the previous year.