The installed base of camera phones will exceed 1 billion in 2007, as mature market replacement sales above one megapixel and emerging market first digital camera phone purchases (typically VGA) continue to drive sales, according to the latest report from Strategy Analytics¡ª”CMOS Beats CCD in Half-Billion Global Camera Phone Market.”
Neil Mawston, Associate Director and Chief Mobile Imaging Analyst, commented: “Camera phones have been a huge success, with unit sales rising from 3 million in 2001 to 500 million last year. As CCD continues to lose the sensor wars in the mobile space, Micron, Omnivision and other CMOS vendors have been the prime beneficiaries.”
David Kerr, Vice President of the Global Wireless Practice, the camera phone market is now entering its third phase where the focus will move from megapixel and basic image enablement to the quality of the imaging experience. “In North America, and Western Europe, One megapixel devices are now table stakes, while niche devices with five megapixels or more will rise to over 2 percent of sales this year. Features such as zoom, flash and autofocus will become critical differentiators in 2008 and beyond,” said Kerr.
Other key findings are the following:
- Global camera phone handset revenues will grow to over $120 billion by 2011 when one- third of the world population will own a camera phone.
- Nokia, although not first to market in this class, is the clear market leader at 28 percent global share, while Motorola also shipped over 100 million units in the last 12 months.
- Honorable mention must also go to SEMC, which has raised the user experience bar for camera phones with their Cybershot range, and has outperformed in this category as well as in the music domain.
- VGA camera phones’ share of the market will fall from 38 percent to under 7 percent over the forecast period.
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Gartner Dataquest has identified RF Micro Devices Inc. as the world’s sixth largest global wireless communications semiconductor vendor, based on revenue. RFMD advanced one position, compared to its previous ranking as the number-seven vendor in Gartner’s prior year .
“Dataquest Insight: Semiconductor Vendor Performance, 2006,” Gartner attributes RFMD’s 44 percent growth in its wireless applications revenue from 2005 to 2006 to its POLARIS TOTAL RADIO RF solutions and power amplifier module businesses. They continues to say that mobile phones accounted for an estimated 75 percent of total wireless application revenue in 2006 and that the high growth of 3G handsets in 2006 with their relatively higher semiconductor content was a strong contributor to high wireless growth.
“Gartner’s research findings underscore our market leadership in cellular RF solutions and our share-gain opportunities in other high-growth wireless markets,” said Bob Bruggeworth, President and CEO of RFMD. “RFMD is the leading supplier of cellular front ends across all tiers of handsets¡ªfrom the high-end EDGE and 3G segments to the entry level and replacement segments of the handset market. As the cellular RF leader, we are uniquely positioned to increase our RF semiconductor content in mobile devices as 3G multimode handsets proliferate, new subscribers are added and new replacement phones are purchased.”
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Gartner Dataquest has identified RF Micro Devices Inc. as the world’s sixth largest global wireless communications semiconductor vendor, based on revenue. RFMD advanced one position, compared to its previous ranking as the number-seven vendor in Gartner’s prior year report.
Dataquest Insight: Semiconductor Vendor Performance, 2006,” Gartner attributes RFMD’s 44 percent growth in its wireless applications revenue from 2005 to 2006 to its POLARIS TOTAL RADIO RF solutions and power amplifier module businesses. The report continues to say that mobile phones accounted for an estimated 75 percent of total wireless application revenue in 2006 and that the high growth of 3G handsets in 2006 with their relatively higher semiconductor content was a strong contributor to high wireless growth.
“Gartner’s research findings underscore our market leadership in cellular RF solutions and our share-gain opportunities in other high-growth wireless markets,” said Bob Bruggeworth, President and CEO of RFMD. “RFMD is the leading supplier of cellular front ends across all tiers of handsets¡ªfrom the high-end EDGE and 3G segments to the entry level and replacement segments of the handset market. As the cellular RF leader, we are uniquely positioned to increase our RF semiconductor content in mobile devices as 3G multimode handsets proliferate, new subscribers are added and new replacement phones are purchased.”
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Nokia & Motorola Lead $100 Billion Camera Phone Market¡ªStrategy Analytics
