According to recent study, mobile phones with embedded digital cameras will outnumber non-camera phones in sales volume by 2006. But the fact that coming years will see the camera phone as a scanner is news in itself and ABI research is anticipating a new information market in this regard. “Camera phone as a scanner capturing metadata about products or services related to objects around us. I think we'll see more of this in coming years,” said Kenneth Hyers, principal analyst of mobile wireless research at ABI Research.