In Smartphone Era, Point-and-Shoots Stay Home
, On Saturday December 4, 2010, 2:53 am ESTAriel Dunitz-Johnson, a 30-year-old illustrator in San Francisco, bought a point-and-shoot camera in May. But in July, she bought a smartphone, with a camera built in.
Soon, whenever she wanted to take a picture, she found herself reaching for the smartphone, a Droid Incredible. She barely uses her point-and-shoot, a Panasonic DMC-LX3.
“It’s much easier to share those pictures with my friends,” she explained, through social networks or e-mail. “With my point-and-shoot, I have to plug it into my computer and upload the photos. It’s just a few more steps than I want to take.”
The point-and-shoot camera, which has been a part of American households since 1900, when George Eastman introduced the Kodak Brownie, is endangered. Like other single-use devices — the answering machine, the desktop calculator, the Rolodex — it is being shoved aside by a multipurpose device: the smartphone and its camera, which takes better snapshots with
December 08, 2010
Tim Peare
I am occupying prescious space, and grateful for it.
A lot of functions sure are being integrated with these li'l fellas we call smartphones. If this progresses, it won't be a problem if we left our keys at home. It won't be far before these smartphones can be used to open our doors.
Posted by: Elliott Bellaire | July 21, 2011 at 12:45 PM