BOSTON-Japan and Korea remain the top markets for wireless camera phones, according to a third quarter sales update on cellular camera phones published by Strategy Analytics last week. 9.5 million embedded camera phones were sold worldwide in the first nine months of 2002, according to the report.
The report also said J-Phone is the top camera phone operator and Sharp, which sells camera phones operated by J-Phone and NTT DoCoMo, is the top camera phone vendor. The analyst firm cites prepaid and postpaid device costs, device diversity and poor network interoperability issues as critical success factors to the take-up of the technology.
The Strategy Analytics report offers insight into wireless camera phone sales worldwide by region for the first three quarters of 2002.
