<P> The first commercial camera phone complete with infrastructure was the J - SH04 , made by Sharp Corporation ; it had an integrated CCD sensor , with the Sha - Mail ( Picture - Mail in Japanese ) infrastructure developed in collaboration with Kahn 's LightSurf venture , and marketed from 2001 by J - Phone in Japan today owned by Softbank . The first commercial deployment in North America of camera phones was in 2004 . The Sprint wireless carriers deployed over one million camera phone manufactured by Sanyo and launched by the PictureMail infrastructure ( Sha - Mail in English ) developed and managed by LightSurf . </P>
<P> The first commercial camera phone complete with infrastructure was the J - SH04 , made by Sharp Corporation ; it had an integrated CCD sensor , with the Sha - Mail ( Picture - Mail in Japanese ) infrastructure developed in collaboration with Kahn 's LightSurf venture , and marketed from 2001 by J - Phone in Japan today owned by Softbank . The first commercial deployment in North America of camera phones was in 2004 . The Sprint wireless carriers deployed over one million camera phone manufactured by Sanyo and launched by the PictureMail infrastructure ( Sha - Mail in English ) developed and managed by LightSurf . </P>
when did the first camera phone come out in america
when did the first camera phone come out in america
2004
2004