Can cameras be removed?

What does this have to do with removing the camera?

I was not trying to be sarcastic. I hope it did not come across that way.

With everything having a camera, sometimes one must get creative, even it it costs money.

Life and security requirements have not changed like technology.

I think the issue is that the number of people who need smartphones without cameras is too small a market for the cellphone manufacturers, who plan in terms of selling hundreds of thousands of a given model, if not more, to want to support. Most people who purchase all but the most rudimentary phones want cameras.

Regards.

I had a friend who wanted one without a camera just because he didn't want to use a crappy camera in a cell phone (he is a photographer). He had to finally give up.

The problem is counting MI-5, the NSA, the CIA and other intelligence and some defense industries exactly how big is the market for a cameraless phone? 10,000 people? 20,000? 50,000 tops?

The only way to design and market a cameraless phone to that market would be to charge about $3,000 USD for it.

Plus, in some secure locations you cannot have ANY personal electronics, which shrinks that marketing number.

I know someone who is a Brink's armored car guard. Thy must leave personal phones at the main office and are issued "business-almost-only" cell phones for use on-shift.

Instead of removing the 2 cameras you can remove the possibility to take pictures. That at the end of the day is your target.

It has to be done carefully. Probably a lab working on Lenses or Diamond/Gold can do it.

I imagine grinding the glass surface in front of both cameras heavy enought to make impossible to get any image.

Not sure if you can do it yourself with diamond tool.

angeapplemad wrote:

The frustrating part is there are lots of jobs now where cameras aren't allowed in the office also the military aren't allowed cameras on their phones so ud think there'd be a decent phone on the market without one, after all it can't be difficult to leave a feature out!

Blackberry used to sell versions of some of their devices with the cameras permanently disabled. They were generally something that had to be special ordered by a company, though. Some non-smart phones can have the camera permanently disabled through programming. With fewer and fewer jobs restricting, I haven't heard of nearly as many phones on which the camera can be disabled.