Study: Smartphones Putting Serious Hurt on Point-and-Shoot Camera Sales | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Smart phones are replacing the very low end still and video cameras.
2011 versus 2010:
- Point and shoot camera unit sales down by -17%
- “Pocket” camcorder unit sales down by -13%
- Traditional camcorder unit sales down by -8%
- High end point and shoot cameras (10x zoom are larger) up by 16%
- High end detachable lens cameras sales up by 10+%
Related articles
- 27% of Photos and Videos Now Captured on Smartphones [STUDY] (mashable.com)
- Death of the point-and-shoot? Smartphone cameras now take 27 per cent of photos (dailymail.co.uk)
- Smartphones take more than 25 percent of photos and videos: survey (examiner.com)
- Did Smartphones kill the Point-and-Shoot? (pcworld.com)
- Over a quarter of photos now taken with smartphones, according to NPD (tuaw.com)
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