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How the Camera Phone Changed the World

Posted by Zonk on from the peeping-phone dept.

theodp writes "Ten years after the amazing Philippe Kahn married a cell phone and a digital camera to capture the birth of daughter Sophie, Slate takes a look at the impact of the camera phone, the gadget that perverts, vigilantes, and celebrity stalkers can all agree on. 'With this kind of device,' Kahn told Wired, 'you're going to see the best and the worst of things.'"

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  1. Camera Phones Suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I do a lot of business with companies who for security reasons will not let you take a camera phone onto their premises. I also have to leave mine at home when I go to parents evening just in case I might possibly take a picture of a school pupil.

    Now, have you tried to get a non camera phone lately? Difficult to say the least.

    If I want to take a picture then I get my Digital Camera out (Nikon D2x) and do it properly.

    Current camera phones have the same quality as CCTV cameras did 10 years ago.

    I'm sorry (and will probably get modded down as a troll) this is one invention I could certainly do without.

  2. Re:What? by statusbar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One problem with the disposable camera is that after you take an important picture, the camera can be 'confiscated' and your picture is gone too. With a camera phone, the picture can be emailed to the world before the 'bad guy' can take your phone away....

    --jeffk++

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