Samsung is celebrating 15 years of Galaxy camera phones. These days the ubiquity of camera phones makes it all too easy to take for granted the incredibly powerful cameras we all have in our pockets, but wind the clock back only to 2010 and the camera phone landscape was very different, if arguably more exciting.
This period marked a turning point in how we define a typical 'camera'. Where in the 2000s the conventional compact camera was king, it was around 2010 when the camera phone became a genuine threat to the dominance of the typical 'point-and-shoot'. Of course, there were plenty of camera phones prior to 2010, but for the most part their cameras were too basic to be considered a viable alternative to a 'proper' camera. Even early iPhones, as innovative as they were in some areas, weren't renowned for having particularly sophisticated camera hardware. It wasn't until 2010's iPhone 4 (and particularly the following 4s) when Apple really stepped up the iPhone's photographic game, and terms like iPhoneography started to enter the popular vernacular.
