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Cameras Built into Cell Phones Are Catching on in Mainstream Use.

By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 22--At a Chapel Hill club two weeks ago, Sandi Shorter lamented that her new mobile phone would probably never live up to its potential.

After all, a cell phone with a built-in digital camera is "kind of silly," Shorter, 29, told a friend with her at The Cave on Franklin Street. There would never be a time when she needed it, like in the ads, to capture a special or bizarre moment.

She was wrong.

Later that night, rock band REM, in town

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