Cameraphone: First cellphone with a retractable lens assembly which automatically caps itself when...

...not in use.  Currently, there are "subcompact" or "ultra-compact" digital cameras with retractable lens assemblies (which automatically cap themselves when not in use) which are as thin as a credit card.  This challenge calls for the merging of such digital camera technology with cellphone technology to greatly improve the quality of photographs and video taken by cellphones and to add digital cameras (still and video) as another gadget that cellphones have made extinct.  [Currently, the closest any camera maker (or cellphone maker for that matter) has gotten to this goal is Polaroid and its SC130 Smart Camera.]  To win this challenge, the cPhones must display what the camera sees on its cellphone monitor, have a flash, have a button on its side where cameras normally have their picture-capture buttons (this button doesn't become active until the cameraphone is put into camera mode), and comes with a slide-out thumb keyboard.  The keyboard slide-out is what houses the digital camera and it must be in the slide-in position to take photographs and video, though has to be in the slide-out position to add text to the taken photographs and video.


Future Challenges: First manufacturer to make a cPhone that:

1) Has "unlimited" storage capacity by being able to use the user's cellphone number to automatically, while pictures are being taken, upload the pictures to the customer's account with their cellphone service company (MetroPCS, T-Mobile, etc.).  The user can then access and view the photographs with their cellphone or Internet-connected laptop, tablet PC, or home computer.

2) Can take HDTV-quality video of at least five minutes length.

3) Can take HDTV-quality video of unlimited length by streaming the video over the user's cellphone number to their account with the cellphone service provider.  The user being able to then access and view the video via their cellphone or their Internet-connected laptop, tablet PC, or home computer.

4) Can be used as a webcam (web video camera).  The cPhone coming with a cable or USB port that users can use to connect to the cPhone to their computers.

First cellphone service provider to:

5) Offer the above cPhones to their subscribers.

6) Have 100,000 subscribers using the above cPhones.

First production company to use HDTV-quality video cPhones as the only cameras used for a:

7) Two-minute TV commercial and air the entire commercial during prime-time on ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC.  [Very likely the first such TV ad will be used to advertise the cPhone.]

8) Music video whose song makes Billboard's Hot 100 list.

9) Hour-long TV documentary that premieres during prime-time on a broadcast (including PBS) or cable TV network.  And if it doesn't say so (and show) during the documentary itself, during the documentary's uncompressed credits, it must state the specific cPhone(s) it used and show at least a still photograph of one of the cPhones used to do the filming of the documentary, if not a very quick video clip of them doing so.  [It wouldn't be surprising that the documentary is about the development and making of the cPhone itself and how cellphones have made other gadgets (pagers, PDAs, watches, calculators, alarm clocks, etc.) obsolete.  The documentary possibly using the digital camera as simply the latest gadget made obsolete by cellphones while telling the broader and longer history of the cellphone and its impact on other gadgets, business, and society.]

10) Half-hour or hour-long episode of a prime-time broadcast TV drama.  During the show's uncompressed credits, it must state the specific cPhone(s) it used and show at least a still photograph of one of them being used to do the filming of the episode, if not a very quick video clip of them doing so.

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