‘900bn photographs will be taken by smartphones in 2015’

The electronics maker added in a report it released yesterday that of the billions of photos taken by smartphones per day, 1.8bn are shared on social networks, up from 500 million in just 2013. The company also said a mere 93m of the photos posted online are selfies.“The increased availability and heightened utility of smartphone-based […]

The electronics maker added in a report it released yesterday that of the billions of photos taken by smartphones per day, 1.8bn are shared on social networks, up from 500 million in just 2013. The company also said a mere 93m of the photos posted online are selfies.
“The increased availability and heightened utility of smartphone-based cameras has allowed for more people than ever to use photography to express themselves. While purists may resent the influx of images online that chronicle even the most banal activities, the freedom to take pictures at any time and place has allowed millions of people worldwide to capture important memories as they occur”, the LG report said.
It said the growth of smart camera phones and the increasing capacity of phones to store data are encouraging more people to take photos with their devices.
Smartphones give users the ability to instantly edit their photos, upload them to social networks as well as store them on a hard drive or in the cloud, according to the report.
 It said though the inclusion of advanced digital cameras on smartphones has spelled doom for the previously popular “point-and-shoot” digital camera, smartphone cameras have served as a gateway to photography for millions.
LG’s General Manager (mobile communications division, West African operations), Mr Steve Seungeui Lee said the craze in using smartphones to take photos forced the company to develop the latest in a line of elite flagship smartphones, the G4 which is equipped with a number of cutting edge features.
“We wanted to give consumers a truly human-centric device that combined the analog sensibilities with technologies that delivered real world performance. From the design to the camera to the display to the UX, this is the most ambitious phone we’ve ever created”, he said.