# What we thought about camera phones in 2004...or how things have changed in 9 years.

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**Created:** [December 21, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-thought-about-camera-phones-in-2004-or-how-things-have-changed-in-9-years/676881 "2013-12-21T07:03:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-thought-about-camera-phones-in-2004-or-how-things-have-changed-in-9-years/676881/40 "2013-12-23T16:08:07Z")

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Well, this guy got it right:

> [@Talk to me about camera phones.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-camera-phones/261130/3):
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> …the one you buy today will be obsolete in a few months.

As someone who bought one of the first “smartphones” (I had a T-Mobile SDA/HTC somethingorother in the mid-2000s), I never thought they’d take off either. It turned out the problem was not having anywhere to download apps.

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