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Point and shoot cameras have been negatively impacted by the popularity of smartphone devices, and the industry is now scrambling to competed with the powerful handheld devices by adding web-friendly features and upgrading technologies.
But it isn’t only the sales of digital point and shoot cameras affected by the smartphone craze. Video consoles as well as portable music players are also taking a hit, as most of new devices like the iPhone or Samsung Android phones combine similar music applications and photo features allowing for an “all-in-one” selling point - a computer, a camera, a phone, and a music player built in a sleek frame.
The Japanese companies like Nikon, Sony, and Canon are all seeing a decline in sales for the compact phone market as most consumers turn to the convenience of camera-equipped smartphones. With image-quality for the new devices also improving, the camera sector is now facing an increasing challenge to find new ways for buyers to consider a point and shoot device.
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After LG, HTC and some of the other manufacturers have had their fun, it was Nokia’s turn to take to the stage at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona and make some new announcements. Everyone was expecting Nokia to release a successor to the Nokia N8 and Nokia didn’t disappoint. The Nokia 808 PureView, as it is called, blew everyone’s mind with its astonishing 41 megapixel sensor, which is not only ridiculously high by mobile phone standards but even by professional digital camera standards.
Check out the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera: Running in Google’s Android operating system, the SC1630 camera sports a 16 Megapixel sensor and 32 GB memory (microSD Card), the camera also lets the users share the pictures instantly in Flickr, Twitter etc. If you dont pay too much attention, you will think that this is an iPhone coz it looks too similar to the priced apple gadget.
