Camera phone before the camera phone
Imagine your smartphone without a camera. That was life just a few decades ago before cameras on cell phones became ubiquitous in the United States (they were first popularized in Japan and Korea). What did you use instead? A separate accessory you could plug into a PDA. In 2002, we covered the Veo Photo Traveler, a $99 accessory that “turned your Pocket PC into a digital camera!”
That camera could take 24-bit color photos at a 640 x 480 resolution, which, at the time, Gizmodo said would “take pretty decent pics for a PDA camera.” The tiny device would connect via an SDIO port (think SD cards) and supported Palm OS versions 4.x and 5.0. You can see the image quality in this PlamInfoCenter review (thank you, internet).
