Some advice for Canon: start making Canon cameraphones

Here's some advice for Canon: hook up with a cellphone manufacturer and start selling Canon cameraphone. Now that the first three megapixel cameraphone is out in Japan (Casio's A5406CA) it's really only a matter of time until a reach the point where most people decide that they don't need a standalone digital camera because the cellphone in their pocket can already take good enough pictures (we're not there yet, but we will be in two or three years). You'll still have the high-end, and the people who care enough about the photos they're taking to want something with a decent lens, but for most people (and this is where you make the real money), it's going to be hard to convince them to shell out an another few hundred bucks to buy a camera when they've already more or less got one. So here's what you need to do. There are a few scrappy Korean and Taiwanese cellphone manufacturers who are dying to be the next Nokia or Samsung — get one of them to use Canon sensors and lenses in their handsets and brand (or co-brand, whatever you want) them as Canon cameraphones. Sony is already sort of doing this with Sony Ericsson by emphasizing the Sony-ness of the cameras in their cameraphones.