Will smartphone replace compact camera?

I believe soon or later people will do away with compact cameras. I do not see the need of having a camera if the mobile phone is able to give the same services that a compact camera can give.

Cameras will survive, butt hey need to pick up the pace. The software in phones nowadays outperforms most cameras that are at a similar price. The 41-megapixel sensor in that phone is amazing. If you look at online bloggers, many of them take pictures with phones nowadays, and they don't even carry cameras. It's definitely hurting the market, but cameras will be around for a long time.

May be. Amateur photographers may depend on smartphone since it has the capabilities a compact camera posses and beyond that.

It's tough to Answer. Because in our World Nothing is Possible, we thought some things how it's possible but it's happening. Always future Exploring the World fast with lots of Unbelivable things. So in may be Future it's can happen Because 41mega pixel in a Mobile it's real Achievement. Nokia Only can Do first with in all time with high resolution cameras on mobile. Let's watch in future.

Yeah the new Nokia Pureview 808 is indeed a beauty. I want to get one in the future because I am really satisfied with the high end camera phones that Nokia has built. In fact, up to this day, I still use my classic Nokia N95 which has a 5 megapixel camera with carl zeiss lens and with flash of course. Like what the other members have said, I guess only time can tell.

Smart phones have already replaced mobile phones in day to day life or for ordinary usage. But professionally i dont think that a smart phone will ever replace a camera as it is not made for that purpose ! smart phone will not have additional functionality and attachments to increase the optical zoom like features ! But for the general people smartphones will surely replace the camera in near future !

wow! that's so cool. Well, i suppose if they could create such smart phones they should also come up with a more amazing cameras so these gadgets would not get extinct. Otherwise these smartphones would really replace almost everything! They have already replaced calculators, notebooks, market/grocery lists, dictionaries, pocket books, cameras etc!

I doubt that the smarphone will ever replace the digital camera. It is like the one user said, that the smartphone is not designed to take pictures like the compact digital camera can. The mega pixels on the smartphone camera, are so small, and maybe the pictures are clear, but they are inferior to the digital camera photos. I have a smartphone, and I never use the camera, as I do have a digital camera that I use to take pictures when I need them. I guess these days, nothing is impossible, so who know but that the smartphone might replace the digital camera. In the meantime, I will continue to use my digital camera to take pictures, and use my smartphone for talking and other things. Take care, and have a very good day.

i rather stick to using cheap phones, and then buy me a high end dslr cameras and a laptop. some people don't need the extra features in a cellphone. some people does. those features are still limited to it's capabilities. and you can't make money out of it. better be practical ^__^