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A camera phone is a mobile phone that is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras. It can also send the resulting image wirelessly and conveniently. The first commercial phone with a color camera was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999.

While cameras in mobile phones used to be supplementary, they have been a major selling point of mobile phones since the 2010s.

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