Of course, the impulse to take photos at special events predates the camera phone.
Schuster said he focused his camera phone and snapped a photo, later uploading it to Twitter.
The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
Last year Mr. Elop captured headlines by producing some innovative products, including a very high-specification camera phone.
Ms. Stewart says when she walks down the aisle she doesn't want to face 60 camera phone-wielding guests.
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At the moment people are judging Peyton Manning by a few seconds of video taken by a camera phone.
The camera phone enables us to be less engaged with our selves and more engaged with the world around us.
But from another perspective, the camera phone is a technology that frees you from the narcissistic tendencies of an individualistic culture.
Myers, camera phone in hand, walked up to strangers and asked them to name their favorite place nearby and give directions.
The photos were believed to have been taken on a camera phone.
The horrified neighbor, looking over the block wall of her Las Vegas yard, took photos from her camera phone and then called police.
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According to The Verge, Nokia will launch PureView camera phone, and also Lumia Catwalk (code name) and Lumia Laser (code name) for Verizon.
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"The camera phone phenomenon that we see in Japan right now will be repeated throughout the world, " said Matthew Nicholson of Japanese mobile firm Jphone.
Now, the camera phone market is moving to 2 megapixels, and it looks like the companies winning the accounts are Micron, once again, and ST Microelectronics.
At that same Arcade Fire concert, a guy in front of me held his camera phone towards the big screen that flanked the stage and hit the video record button.
Google Chief Eric Schmidt demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that lets users translate written words using a camera phone.
They're also gearing up for the LG Viewty, a high-feature camera phone that shoots videos at 120 frames per second and, in certain markets, uploads the video to YouTube with a single click.
"The FUW is urging everyone to be vigilant for any suspicious activity in the countryside and to use the latest camera phone technology in a bid to help the police catch the thieves, " he said.
Now, the camera phone market is moving to 2 megapixels, and it looks like the companies winning the accounts are Micron, once again, and ST Microelectronics (nyse: STM - news - people ).
The idea is that it gives much better quality shots when you zoom in compared to a normal camera phone, which matters because there is no room for a big zoom lens on a typical mobile.
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Gone will be the days of asking someone for their blackberry pin (only for them to say what do you mean), navigating the web on a screen that you can barely see and taking photos with a state of the art camera phone (if it was 2009).
So, all you need is a phone line and a battery, I mean, a power outlet and the grandparents plug it in and everyday they can look forward to new photos that have been sent to it via pretty much e-mail and you can even send it from your camera phone, too.
In a typical camera-phone, the image is focused by the lens onto a photosensitive silicon chip.
This is because OEMs know many consumers may choose their phone based on the quality of the camera, particularly as consumers use their phone as their primary camera.
It also throws in a "Find my Phone" feature, a remote wipe and a camera option that will let you see your phone's front or rear camera views -- as well as snap pictures remotely and store them directly on your computer -- without activating the display (a very useful feature in case your prized possession gets stolen).
When he came around, he discovered his camera and mobile phone had been stolen.
Rigby's death has attracted worldwide attention because the slaying scene was captured on a cell phone camera.
When scanned with a phone camera or clicked in a text message, the codes automatically direct people to a website.
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