The First ‘Camera Phone’ Photograph

First camera phone picture

Appropriately grainy, this photo of a newborn is the very first photo sent via cellphone. In 1997 this was cutting edge tech.

A long labor was the nudge it took for Philippe Kahn to hack together the hardware for a project he had been working on. Fun story from when the pic turned 20. Via IEEE Spectrum:

Philippe Kahn hacked together a Motorola StarTAC flip phone, a Casio QV digital camera that took 320 by 240 pixel images, and a Toshiba 430CDT laptop computer. When he took a picture with the camera, the system would automatically dial up his Web server and upload the picture to it at 1200 baud. The server would send email alerts to a list of friends and family, who could then log on and view the photo.

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