Well, if you have ever wonder why there is such a push for more camera phones, now you know. Picture messaging…

M:Metrics has reported that camera phone ownership is climbing, and with it photo messaging (MMS, I assume) is also climbing. “At 50.7 percent, the number of mobile subscribers in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States owning camera phones 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 mega-pixel sent a photo over the network, versus a global average of 30.5 percent.”… Source: moconews