MELVILLE, N.Y.-Pulver.com and Next Generation Ventures announced they will launch their inaugural Cameraphone Summit: The Conference on Cameraphones and Convergent Mobile Media April 27-30 in Maui, Hawaii.
Executives from Nokia Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. will offer keynote speeches, and the summit will cover issues from applications to privacy to hardware.
“Cameraphones are definitely the next big thing for the global mobile-phone market,” said Moses Ma, the managing partner of Next Generation Ventures. “Industry analysts are estimating that 125 million handsets with imaging capabilities will be shipped globally in 2005, but we expect the market to exceed these estimates in a surprising manner. The explosive camera-phone phenomenon that we see in Japan today will be repeated throughout the world as we move toward a global tipping point for mobile imaging, unleashing the deployment of radically new and imaginative innovations and applications, which will further drive uptake of the emerging mobile imaging and visual telepresence platform.”
