EOTO #1 Reacts

 First Camera Phone

Before phones became a big deal in society, there existed camera phones which were mainly used for taking calls and taking digital pictures. The origins of the camera phones come from 3 different variants of the camera phone that was made. Both the SCH-V200 and the Kyocera camera phones were made in the 2000's while and earlier version of the camera phone that was not as popular had already been released much before these two, Kahn.

SCH-V200

In 2000, Samsung had made what is known as the SCH-V200 which is a camera phone that uses digital photos. The SCH-V200 is able to take up to 20 digital photos, each being at 350,000-pixel resolution. The phone and camera bodies were even basically two different parts that were combined into one phone that housed a camera. However, at the time, it had another counterpart in Japan which was known as Kyocera.

Kyocera

Also in 2000, a Japanese company that went by the name of "Kyocera" started developing their own versions of camera phones. Not only did the Kyocera act as a camera phone, but it was also able to take videos as well unlike its competitors at the time. The first edition, known as the VP-210, was released in 1999 in Japan. It used a 110,00 pixel camera to send images to Japan's PHS mobile phone network system. The goal for them behind the development was to enable more enjoyment when it came to calls between people and enabling a video function so people could see each other during calls by using the digital camera in the phone. 

Despite the fact that the Kyocera and the SCH-V200 were revolutionary at their time, they are not the original versions of the camera phone. This dates back to 1997 when Phillipe Kahn developed what would be considered as the first ever camera phone in existence.

Kahn

On June 11th, 1997, Phillip Kahn invented what is known as the first ever camera phone to take digital photos. His inspiration and motivation comes from his daughter when she was being birthed alive. At the time, Kahn didn't have a way to take memorable photos so he improvised and used a mobile phone with a digital camera and sent photos of his daughters birth in real time. This allowed for me real time captures and moments that he would not want to forget.

Because of these inventions, it has lead us to what we use today as modern phones with built in cameras to capture moments that are valuable to us, it truly is astounding to think how such a low quality of technology can advance so drastically and allow us to capture those moments that we admire just as Phillip Kahn did with her daughter. I believe that these are the happy moments that the initial inventions wanted to get out of us.