Photo Messaging On The Up August 9, 2006

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More and more people are sending photos via their mobile phones, and not just the dodgy sort either.

Research from M:Metrics claims that photo messaging in the UK, France and Germany has risen between 16-20% and in the US by 32% since February. Why? Better quality cameraphones, it seems. The RAZR is the most popular cameraphone in the UK and the US while the Nokia 6230 tops the German market. The French favour the Sagem my X-5. In terms of those phones used most for sending pics though, Nokia rules the roost: in the UK it’s the Nokia 6111, France the 6630 and Germany the 6280.

"At 50.7%, the number of mobile subscribers in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States owning cameraphones has grown 22 percent since February of this year," said Mark Donovan, vice president and senior analyst, M:Metrics. "We also see a direct correlation between camera resolution and propensity to use photo messaging, as 44.3 percent of subscribers who own phones with cameras with resolutions exceeding one megapixel sent a photo over the network, versus a global average of 30.5 percent."

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