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When it comes to photos, your cell phone is ready for something new!
In 2008 statistics showed that 74% of the people in Sweden, between the ages 9-79 use a cell phone on a daily basis. Worldwide in 2008 there were 3.9 billion cell phone subscribers and by 2013 this number is expected to hit 5.6 billion. A survey in the U.S showed that out of 2000 people from different income classes, ages and gender, 45.9 % use their cellphone camera at least once a week. One in five people said that their cell phone is their primary camera. Whether the camera is used to document a night out, take flirtatious photos of yourself or to take a photo and attach to your contact does not matter. It’s the frequency that is interesting.
Another survey conducted by Harrison Group shows that 46% of people in the age group 13-24 embrace their cell phones as an entertainment device. 56% of all consumers take photos with their phones, including 37% in the age group 61-75. So even if kids may think of their cell phone as an entertainment tool, older people use it as an entertainment tool as well. Camera phones outsold basic digital still cameras by almost 4 to 1 in 2005 already and it looks like it is only going up.
Flickr have a whole statistics section where they keep an eye of how many photos are shot by different cameras. A big number of camera phones are represented and by looking at the numbers you can see that almost 15 million photos are taken with an iPhone compared to 35 million photos taken with a Nikon D40 which came out the same year as the first iPhone. It is impossible to compare the photo quality of these cameras since the technology in the Nikon is so much more advanced than the iPhone. The equivalent to the iPhone (measured in megapixel) would be the Coolpix 2500 with 2,5 million photos on Flickr, which is almost nothing.
With this increase of photos taken with a camera phone there are also a lot of different applications out there today to help people snap a photo and upload it to different social networks in just one click. They then most often sit in in a folder called ”Mobile uploads” with all kinds of photos mixed together. How come you have to solve the rest on a computer?
What I’m talking about is the tagging and the organizing to be able to share the photos with people. Imagine to be able to snap a photo, get name suggestions of the people in the photo and tag the people right there in your phone before you send it away to your social network. The photos would get organized directly through the people who are in them AND the people in the photos would get notified directly.
Untagged photos may soon be a thing of the past.
are you saying you’ve solved that problem?
Great post, great points.. Now go make me that app!