Topic summary
Smartphone camera
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Camera phone.
In the smartphone era, the steady sales increase of camera phones caused point-and-shoot camera sales to peak about 2010, and decline thereafter. The concurrent improvement of smartphone camera technology coupled with repurposed processing power that enabled fast image processing and high-resolution and frame rate video recording, and its other multifunctional benefits as a portable computing device have led to it gradually replacing compact point-and-shoot cameras.