ASIAN TECH SNOB... PHONE CAMERA ISSUES?

I think I read a similar article in a Korean newspaper about two years ago.

Smile, You're on Candid Phone Camera
The Internet has made lapses in behavior more embarrassing

By Philipp Harper
Special to MSN

... Enter the cell phone camera, a device that not so long ago could have existed only in the fecund imagination of Q, supreme gadgeteer and outfitter of James Bond and other denizens of Her Majesty's Secret Service. Easily concealed, innocuous looking — it's main purpose is not as a camera, after all — the cell phone camera is becoming known more for its misuse than use.

On the market for just a couple of years, the camera phone promises to be ubiquitous. Acceptance of the technology so far has been most rapid in Asia, which by one reckoning accounted for 80 percent of camera phone sales in the final quarter of 2002. Western Europe followed with 13 percent, while North America lagged far behind at 2.3 percent. (full article)