Report: Phones to outsell TV sets in 2008

The Dublin, Ireland-based firm predicts that 300 million such phones that can play audio and video and browse the Internet will be sold in 2008. Its new report, "Mobile Media 2008: The Third Screen for Entertainment," also found that half the world's population, or 3.3 billion people, now have a mobile phone subscription.

75% of UK mobile phones feature a camera

According to a survey by M:Metrics, the mobile market authority, over 50% of US mobile phone users now have a camera phone, representing a total of 106 million phones, while in the UK 75% of mobile phones have a camera.

The boom in camera phones has led to a fall in sales of mobile wallpaper and graphics, with consumers personalising their phones with photos taken on the device.

However camera phone technology has had a positive impact on overall operator data revenues, with consumers increasingly purchasing photo messaging bundles.