Mobile phone with built-in camera (Samsung SCH-V200)
Teléfono móvil con cámara integrada (Samsung SCH-V200)
- Date
- 2000 · confidence medium
- Place
- Seoul, South Korea
- Credited to
- Samsung Electronics (also Sharp)
- People
- 👤 Martin Cooper1928–
- Field
- Communication
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A phone with a built-in 0.35-megapixel digital camera, sold in Korea in June 2000, that stored about 20 pictures. It began the convergence of phone and camera that ended the compact camera.
Priority is contested: Samsung released the SCH-V200 in 2000, but Sharp launched the J-SH04 in Japan (November 2000), the first to send photos over the network, and Philippe Kahn shared a photo from his phone in 1997 with a homemade rig.
What it led to
- the smartphone camera
- social photography and instant image sharing
- decline of the digital compact camera