The vision for the first camera-phone was formed in June 1997. Motorola worked with Philippe to build the first camera-phone. LightSurf designed, developed, and managed the service infrastructure and did the reference design for the hardware. This became a secret internal Motorola project. Sadly, later in 2001 Motorola cancelled the project which would have given them at least an 18 month lead on the industry. Mistakes happen!
Interestingly, the old Soviet KGB reconverted into an industrial information gathering organization, didn’t miss a beat. Here is what they put on the web in 2000. So much for secrecy!
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The original article can be found at
http://news.hpc.ru/news/news2000_09_22.shtml