Allegedly annually about 1.2 trillion pictures are taken, wants at least one recent study found have, of which the vast majority of smartphones with cameras. Four out of five smartphone owners are - unsurprisingly - use your device to take pictures, which for years has declining sales of traditional cameras as a corollary. As this brief review describes the history of camera phones, a first camera with stocked, mobile Telefongeraet the PHS Panasonic Cameraphone was in 1995 demonstrated. Five years came with the J-SH04 by Sharp, the first camera phone for the Japanese market, with the dizzying Fotoaufloesung 0.1Megapixel ... video recordings are not addressed in the article - according to our own news archive the first mobile phones were in 2009 HD-capable, namely www.slashcam.de/news/single/Samsung-OmniaHD-Handy-bald- with 720p video function-7384.html (Samsung) and www.slashcam.de/news/single/Handy-mit-720p-HD-Video-von-Hitachi--Mobile-Hi-Vis-7606. html (Hitachi). "The first step is taken - phones will incorporate even the skills of low-cost HD cams well in the coming years" we wrote at the time, and so it happened, of course. Pretty soon even: the small pocket camcorder la Flip (if anyone still remember should) have been the first victim of the new Alleskoennen in photo / video section. Failed to materialize, however, is the www.slashcam.de/news/single/Die-Zukunft--Handy-TV-per-LED-Beamer-----5873