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As camera cell phones click, chip makers smile.
Byline: Therese Poletti
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ San Francisco real estate agent Eve Barron uses a camera phone to instantly e-mail clients photos of hot properties that have just come on the market.
Her phone also comes in handy during home inspections when she spots potential problems. "I photograph all the points, so when I go back and write up my inspection, I have it in my phone ... It gives you that one extra thing that you have that perhaps other agents don't have," said Barron.
Camera phones are not just for teenagers and tourists any more. What started in Japan as a fad has now become a must-have feature for many buyers of new cell phones, including business people. And the chip makers that develop the image sensors used in the devices hope to grab a piece of the ever-growing camera phone pie.
"When these phones were first introduced, I thought it was a dumb idea," said Shyam Nagrani, a principal consumer electronics analyst with market research firm iSuppli. "But ...
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