Kazumi Saburi - Ring a bell anyone?

Hvis navnet Kazumi Saburi ikke siger jer derude noget som helst, så skal i ikke være kede af det. Hvis firmaet Kyocera siger jer mindre så skal i heller ikke være kede af det.

TG Daily har ledt efter manden bag kameraet i mobiltelefonen. De har søgt vidt og bredt, og har langt om længe fundet frem til at den allerførste telefon med et kamera var Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210.
Manden bag telefonen er Kazumi Saburi, der var projekt lede af VP-210 hos Kyocera.
Telefonen dengang tilbød på svimlende 2 fps real-time video, og op til 20 still-billeders hukommelse.

Internet sources, including Wikipedia, typically suggest that it was Sharp's J-SH04 that won the race for the first camera phone. Even if Sharp claims on its website that this was the first mobile phone with an "attached camera," it debuted months after the real first camera phone. The Sharp device was released in November 2000, but, according to Peddie's article published in the July 18 issue of his firm's "Tech Watch", the Samsung Anycall SCH-V200 had been available already in April of 2000.

Link: http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/18/desperately_seeking_saburi/