Ok, so cameraphones are hurting sales of digital cameras, we buy that. But an analyst with research firm iSuppli claims that Japanese consumers are buying high-resolution cameraphones and then cancelling the service to just use them as cameras. If you’ll excuse our incredulity, we’ve never heard of anyone doing this, and besides why would anyone want to? A decent cameraphone would almost certainly cost more and take worse pictures than a comparably-sized digital camera, especially in Japan. It’s one thing to forego buying a digital camera because you’ve got a cameraphone. It’s another thing entirely to buy a cameraphone just so it can function as a camera.
