Cellular handset backlighting and keypad LED revenues will tumble by 41% by 2009, but this will be offset by 87% growth in the camera flash segment, reports LEDs Magazine.

Strategy Analytics' latest study on the LED market, "Camera Phones are Bright Spot in Handset Market for LEDs," warns that companies focused on supplying LEDs for LCD and keypad backlighting functions will see their revenues fall 41 percent by 2009.

The introduction of brighter LEDs and more efficient backlighting schemes will cause a net reduction in the average number of LEDs used in both the LCD and keypad backlighting segments of the market. Coupled with the decline in average selling prices experienced in these two segments, revenues from both markets will trend downwards.

This loss however, will be offset by strong revenue growth in the emerging camera flash segment. By 2009, revenues from the growing camera flash function will represent 36 percent of the total handset LED market demand for LED manufacturers.

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