Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Sony To Stop Making Low-End Digital Cameras
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 09:00 AM
"Just a week after strong cameraphone sales figures were announced, Sony Ericsson's president says its parent has ceded the low-end camera market to mobile phones. Sony Ericsson president Katsumi Ihara says that Sony has given up the low-end digital camera market to cameraphones. While last week's sales figures showed that cameraphones outsold digital cameras nearly 2-to-1 in 2003, this is the first concrete statement from a vendor that the inevitable is beginning."
This is not very surprising news if you think about it. It just doesn't make sense for Sony, a digital imaging giant, to make a piece of hardware that is soon going to be outdated even in camera phones. Camera phones have already made a huge dent in the low megapixel digital camera market and with camera phones set to take 1- to 2-megapixel pictures by next year, I doubt whether anyone will be buying digital cameras that exclusively take low resolution pictures.
This is not very surprising news if you think about it. It just doesn't make sense for Sony, a digital imaging giant, to make a piece of hardware that is soon going to be outdated even in camera phones. Camera phones have already made a huge dent in the low megapixel digital camera market and with camera phones set to take 1- to 2-megapixel pictures by next year, I doubt whether anyone will be buying digital cameras that exclusively take low resolution pictures.
