Camera Phone History

The first wireless picturephone prototype known as intellect, developed in 1993 by inventor Daniel A. Henderson, was received by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2007.

This pioneering system and device was designed to receive pictures and video data sent from a message originator to a message center for transmission and display on a wireless device such as a cellular telephone.

However, the integration of the cellular phone, the digital camera and a wireless internet infrastructure would take a few more years.

Camera Phone Trivia

In South Korea and Japan, all camera phones sold in the country must make a clearly audible sound whenever a picture is taken: These laws are intended to reduce the number of up-skirt photos taken.

In Singapore, camera phones are banned at companies or facilities that have an association with national security.