I don’t think so…
…however, according to Executive VP at Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, because of fast paced development in cameraphone technologies digital cameras have a limited life expectancy. In fact, all digital cameras, including professional system cameras will soon be obsolete according to Vanjoki.
Of course what would you expect the Executive VP at Nokia to say…?
Press Release
HELSINKI, April 20 (Reuters) – Fast developing cameraphone technology will shortly make SLR system cameras and even professional cameras obsolete, the sales chief of the world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Tuesday. “They will in the very near future revolutionise the market for system cameras,” Anssi Vanjoki said in a speech in Helsinki.
“There will be no need to carry around those heavy lenses,” Vanjoki said, pointing to a professional photographer taking pictures of him.
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The proliferation of smartphones with picture quality comparable to most pocket cameras has boosted photography around the world, but they have so far not challenged real system cameras due to phones’ smaller size and weaker technology.
Vanjoki said high-definition (HD) quality video recording was also coming to cellphones within the next 12 months.
“It will not take long, less than a year, when phones can record HD quality video and you can transfer it directly to your HD television set,” Vanjoki said. (Reporting by Tarmo Virki, editing by Will Waterman)
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