The following chart from Statista tells a fascinating story about what is happening in digital cameras: This started nearly 5 years ago with Flickr first reporting that the most popular camera for picture taking on its website was not a Canon or Nikon SLR but rather an Apple iPhone. Like the trend towards eCommerce sales, smartphone […]
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Five years ago, this blog was predicting that video would come to the SLR camera World. And just a half year later, Nikon delivered the D90 as the first DSLR that did video with interchangeable Nikon lenses. And the specs on the D90 have been so good that users can still buy a brand new
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There are now at least two major camera-phones coming to market where a camera-phone is a smartphone with a serious point+click camera attached – or vice versa. Two vendors, Nokia and Samsung, are testing the theory that a top of the line compact camera equivalent or better can help sell a premium priced smartphone. The first
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Remember the Flip video camera from 5 years ago? Simple and easy to use and able to feed the growing use of video on the Web. Cisco bought Flip for nearly $600M in March 2009. But two years later Cisco shutdown its Flip division as video came on board not only point+shoot as well as
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This blog has argued before that Samsung has a superior product development cycle that allows it to deliver better cameras, smartphone and other electronic devices on a timely basis. The whole idea is to draw from Agile software development – and quickly produce designs that meet consumer feature needs through live products every 6-12
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This summer, two smartphone manufacturers have issued very different but challenging visions to their competitors [and each other] of what a smartphone camera should be able to do. Hold on to your money and reins and take a look what will be coming likely this Fall. Samsung’s Galaxy NX – a full state of the
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Since its emergence as the premier smartphone player, I pay attention to how Samsung approaches a consumer market. In cameras, Samsung started in 2005 with an aliiance with Pentax for joint development of high end Digital SLRs dominated by Nikon and Canon. The strategy provided an entree for Samsung into the digital camera world. Since
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Mobile phones have been cannibals in the gadget market place. They have eaten other devices lunches while increasing their marketshare. PDAs, GPS units, book viewers and hand game consoles have all come and now linger on as Zombie low cost or highly specialized devices as smartphones knock each one off. The real culprit is the
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