The first camera phone photo is shared

In 1995, the Macworld print magazine had an article that imagined what Apple might create. Apple actually shared a design for a never-released videophone that combined the look of the company’s Newton PDA with a video camera and display.

On 11, 1997, inventor Phillipe Kahn captured a photo of his newborn daughter with his digital camera in a maternity ward at Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz, California.

Kahn, who had a server running at his home, used a Casio QV digital camera (one of the first successful digital cameras), a Motorola StarTAC mobile phone and a laptop to capture the image.

Shortly after the new baby arrived, Khan was ready to take a photo of her. Holding his daughter in one hand, and the camera in the other, he snapped the first photo of his baby. He instantly shares the first ever camera phone photograph with more than 2000 friends and family members.

Since “camera phones” didn’t exist at that time, Kahn actually hacked together a primitive one by combining his digital camera and a cell phone.

This was the spark that started it all - soon afterwards, Nokia, Sharp and Sony Ericsson would all launch camera phones.’’ In May of 1999, Japan was the launchpad for the Kyocera VP-210. It was the first such phone with a built-in camera that was sold commercially to the general public.

On Sep 7 2000, Phillipe Kahn demonstrates the camera phone and instant photo sharing infrastructure at the DEMOmobile conference. It is the first public demonstration of photo sharing services.

In 2016, Time Magazine named Kahn’s seminal camera phone photo one of the 100 most influential photos of all time.
The first camera phone photo is shared

Invention of cell phone

The terms cell phone, cellular phone, mobile phone and wireless phone all refer to the same type of voice-centric mobile device that has become the essential personal communication tool everywhere.

Cellular phone use has grown rapidly since the device was developed in the 1970s; roughly one billion mobile handsets are now in use worldwide.

American inventor Dr Martin Cooper, Motorola engineer is usually credited with making the handheld cell phone a reality.

He was the first who set up the base station in New York and used the world’s first cell phone, the Motorola DynaTac, to place cell phone call on April 3, 1978 while walking on a street of New York City.

When Martin Cooper developed his first cell phone, it was designed for people like taxi drivers who needed to make calls on the move. The first cell phone as commercially manufactured in 1977 in Chicago.

The first cell phones in the 1980s were large and were usually in staled in vehicles.

It was in the 1990s that the mobile phone hit the mass market and evolved into a fashion accessory.
Invention of cell phone