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A small percentage of camera phones are used regularly to transmit or store pictures, according to a report from market analysis firm In-Stat.

Less than a third of camera phone owners surveyed by In-Stat indicated that they share picture messages with friends. Those who now use camera or camcorder phones say that they are less likely to replace their phones in the near future than other users, though.

There will be between 300 and 850 million mobile users that will send at least one image per month across the carrier network by 2010, In-Stat predicts.

Only one in 20 camera phone users prints pictures or stores them on carrier-provided web sites. Twenty-eight per cent of current camera phone owners actually share pictures using a messaging service, compared with nearly 60 per cent who hoped to do so before purchasing their camera phones.