CELL PHONE CONVERGENCE HOW THE CAMERA PHONE HAS

HISTORY OF THE CAMERA PHONE • in 1997 - Philippe Kahn, used a Camera

CAMERA PHONE ADOPTION WORLDWIDE • 2001 - Half of Cell-Phone users in Japan were

NOTABLE EVENTS INVOLVING CAMERA PHONES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD • The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

LITERATURE REVIEW • “Spectrum Saving through Fixed Mobile Convergence” by Pradeep Kumar Chopra •

UNDERSTANDING CELL PHONE CONVERGENCE • Observing through research, the habits of people and their

RESEARCHING THE TOPIC • Men and women all over the world are actively researching

REFERENCES FOR CONVERGENCE David, G. (2010). Camera phone images, videos and live streaming: a

REFERENCES CONTINUED… SPUNG, A. (2011). FROM BACKPACKS TO BLACKBERRIES: (RE)EXAMINING NEW JERSEY V. T.

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CELL PHONE CONVERGENCE: HOW THE CAMERA PHONE HAS CHANGED HOW WE LIVE

HISTORY OF THE CAMERA PHONE • in 1997 - Philippe Kahn, used a Camera phone he made to send photos of his daughter’s birth to over 2, 000 people worldwide • Kahn developed the Starfish Software Platform, which he described as the ability to "Enter or edit information anywhere” • Kahn sold Starfish to Nokia in 1998 for $325 million and It remains an integral part of the Nokia Platform today

CAMERA PHONE ADOPTION WORLDWIDE • 2001 - Half of Cell-Phone users in Japan were using Camera Phones • 2003 - more camera phones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras • 2005 - Nokia became the world's most sold digital camera brand • 2008 - Nokia sold more camera phones than Kodak sells film based simple cameras, thus becoming the biggest manufacturer of any kind of camera • 2010 - the worldwide number of camera phones totaled more than 1 billion

NOTABLE EVENTS INVOLVING CAMERA PHONES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD • The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was the first global news event where the majority of the first day news footage was no longer provided by professional news crews, but rather by citizen journalists, using primarily camera phones • On December 30, 2006, the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was recorded by a video camera phone, and made widely available on the Internet • Camera phone video and photographs taken in the immediate aftermath of the July 2005 London bombings were featured worldwide. CNN executive Jonathan Klein predicts camera phone footage will be increasingly used by news organizations • Camera phone digital images helped to spread the 2009 Iranian election protests • Camera phones recorded the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant

LITERATURE REVIEW • “Spectrum Saving through Fixed Mobile Convergence” by Pradeep Kumar Chopra • This article shows the growing trends worldwide of media on cell phones, the behaviors associated with them, and the problems it can present. • “Wireless local loop as a mobile convergence solution” by William Webb • This article shows the challenges we may face in affording this technology for everyone, and that the concept of FMC needs to be adopted to keep the mobile networks from being overly clogged • The Pew internet report “Americans and Their Cell Phones” by Aaron Smith • This report shows what a large role cell phones play in our daily lives, and how they affect our society as a whole

UNDERSTANDING CELL PHONE CONVERGENCE • Observing through research, the habits of people and their cell phone usage on a large scale • Showing the real world issues surrounding camera phones and their use • Examining how camera phones permeate every part of our society and how that affects how we • Work • Play • Behave as a whole • To Show camera phones have changed • Our limits of communication • Our ability to share experiences no matter where we are

RESEARCHING THE TOPIC • Men and women all over the world are actively researching Camera phone and in general Cell phone Convergence on a daily basis • The topic is an important one as it will continue to change our society • The subject of Camera Phones and their pertinence to our society is nothing new, it is because of the new technology that it brings to the forefront the issues more often now than before • the concept of having fluid worldwide communication via Camera phones and their media, is being explored by researchers now more than ever because it is finally possible

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REFERENCES CONTINUED… SPUNG, A. (2011). FROM BACKPACKS TO BLACKBERRIES: (RE)EXAMINING NEW JERSEY V. T. L. O. IN THE AGE OF THE CELL PHONE. Emory Law Journal, 61(1), 111159. THE, E. (2011). 101 GADGETS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. Popular Mechanics, 188(7), 50 -68.