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Gillmor: Sprint's attempt to de-camera
cameraphones is silly

Gillmor: Sprint's attempt to de-camera
cameraphones is silly 06/21/2004 11:43 PM
Dan Gillmor has written an insightful column about Sprint's announcement that it will soon sell camera-free Treo 600 camera phones. Sprint wants to satisfy customers fearful of internal corporate espionage, but Gillmor says resistance is futile:

I suppose it's always better to sell what the customer wants. But I have bad news for Sprint's worried customers: This won't help much, because the pace of technology means cameras will soon disappear from view, embedded in clothing and eyeglasses, not just phones.

Sprint's move highlights one more set of issues we have to confront in a world of digital information. Whether we're talking about photos or videos or documents or just about anything else that can be converted into zeroes and ones, we're entering a changed world.

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Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock Plus with
Bluetooth for Cameraphones

Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock Plus with
Bluetooth for Cameraphones 08/03/2004 10:50 AM

I don't normally talk too much about printers -- even the cute little photoprinters that all the kids are using these days -- but Kodak's new EasyShare Printer Dock Plus (Original edit: EasyShire - the world's leading hobbit porn site) has a neat trick: after purchasing the optional Bluetooth dongle (available in October), you'll be able to print pictures directly from your cameraphone. I've seen similar tricks done in software, but it's about time companies started acknowledging that cameraphones are going to be more and more prevalent in home photography.

I bet by this time next year, all photoprinters will have the same feature (and it won't be an extra option, either).

Read - Press Release [LivingRoom]

A Bluetooth Camera Phone

A Bluetooth Camera Phone 03/29/2005 06:50 AM
PC Magazine Mar 29 2005 11:22AM GMT

Down on Concord's Bluetooth camera

Down on Concord's Bluetooth camera 02/10/2004 02:52 PM
PC World really doesn't like Concord's Eye-Q Go digital camera, you know, the one with built-in Bluetooth. Why not? Well besides complaning about how cheaply...

Bluetooth snoops with camera on wheels

Bluetooth snoops with camera on wheels 03/14/2005 06:28 PM
Industry Standard Mar 13 2005 11:25AM GMT

Down on Concord's Eye-Q Go Wireless
Bluetooth digital camera

Down on Concord's Eye-Q Go Wireless
Bluetooth digital camera 06/11/2004 04:21 PM
Engadget Jun 11 2004 7:22PM GMT

Nokia's new Bluetooth headset, GPS
module, and Remote Camera

Nokia's new Bluetooth headset, GPS
module, and Remote Camera 09/23/2004 01:16 PM
Engadget Sep 23 2004 4:56PM GMT

Sony Ericsson launch remote Bluetooth
camera at CeBIT 2005

Sony Ericsson launch remote Bluetooth
camera at CeBIT 2005 03/14/2005 04:16 PM
Pocket-lint.co.uk Mar 14 2005 1:52PM GMT

DoCoMo's new cameraphones

DoCoMo's new cameraphones 12/17/2003 01:15 PM
Details have leaked about five new FOMA 3G cellphones coming from DoCoMo in Japan, the N900i from NEC, the P900i from Panasonic, the F900i from...

DoCoMo's three new cameraphones

DoCoMo's three new cameraphones 12/11/2003 01:16 PM
Three new cameraphones from DoCoMo in Japan, the 1.3 megapixel SO505is from Sony Ericsson, which has a 2.3-inch, 262,000 color screen; the 1.3 megapixel N505is...

Cameraphones surapssing DVD players

Cameraphones surapssing DVD players 11/19/2003 11:48 AM
And while we're on the topic of DVDs today, USA Today reports that cameraphones are on track to surpass DVD players as the most quickly adopted consumer technology of all-time. Read [Via Reiter's Camera Phone Report]...

280 mln cameraphones to be sold in 2005

280 mln cameraphones to be sold in 2005 03/14/2005 06:24 PM
ZDNet Mar 14 2005 9:45PM GMT

The New York Times doesn't get
cameraphones

The New York Times doesn't get
cameraphones 12/13/2003 03:02 PM
Incredibly shortsighted, hopelessly nostalgic editorial in yesterday's New York Times about how digital cameras shouldn't be a part of cellphones:Now, among the many unnecessary features...

Cameraphones in the Military, Iraq

Cameraphones in the Military, Iraq 05/25/2004 04:18 PM
Xeni Jardin reminds us that her latest 'Xeni Tech' segment on NPR's Day to Day airs today, and is available online. Xeni talks about the Pentagon's rumored ban on cameraphones (which turned out to not a ban per se, as...

Cameraphones + dumb criminals

Cameraphones + dumb criminals 12/19/2003 11:54 AM
One reader writes in regarding the post today about cellphones placing people at the scenes of crimes:I work for a Federal law enforcement agency and...

Missing the point about cameraphones

Missing the point about cameraphones 12/03/2003 12:19 PM
We'd explain why Andy Ihnatko's column in Chicago Sun-Times ragging on cameraphones is both grossly misinformed and remarkably short-sighted, but fortunately Mike Masnick over at Techdirt Wireless saves us the trouble. Read - Chicago Sun-Times Read - Techdirt Wireless...

Using Cameraphones to Steal Identities

Using Cameraphones to Steal Identities 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

There's a bit of a scare story on Florida Today about criminals using cameraphones to steal personal information from you, like credit card numbers or ATM PINs. While no arrests have been made—in fact, it's all speculation!—there's an important lesson we can learn from all of this: pay for everything by trading bales of home-spun quilts.

Crimi nals' new gadget: Camera cell phones to gain ID info [FloridaToday]

Korean cameraphones will need to make
some noise

Korean cameraphones will need to make
some noise 11/11/2003 04:33 PM
In a classic case of overreaction, the South Korean government is going to require cameraphones to emit a loud shutter-type noise whenever a photograph is taken. The idea being to make it more difficulty to surreptitously snap pictures while in public. Read [Via TechDirt]...

Stick-on effects lenses for cameraphones

Stick-on effects lenses for cameraphones 08/22/2004 07:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: Brando is selling self-adhesive cameraphone lenses with a variety of filters -- soften, magnify, distort, etc. Link (via MobileWhack)

LG's New 3.24-Megapixel Clamshell
Cameraphones

LG's New 3.24-Megapixel Clamshell
Cameraphones 07/19/2004 09:56 AM

LG Electronics is providing a pair of 3.24-megapixel camera phones to SK Telecom (the LG-SD350) and KTF (the LG-KP2500) which use a mechanical shutter instead of a software technique to improve image quality. Also interesting is the fact that the handsets are clamshells, instead of candy bar phones -- the last 3-megapixel phone we saw, the Samsung SPH-2300, has a more traditional camera shape, although it has an optical zoom, as well. I would hazard a guess that the new LG phones do not (although these days, it's hard to tell).

Meanwhile, some of the phones in the US are starting to get 1-megapixel sensors. Wowsers!
Read - LG's 3.24 Megapixel camera phone debuts on Monday [Telecoms Korea via PhoneMag]

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Samsung SPH-2300: 3 Megapixel Cameraphone [Gizmodo]

Cameraphones edging out digital cameras

Cameraphones edging out digital cameras 12/03/2003 01:20 PM
Ok, so cameraphones are hurting sales of digital cameras, we buy that. But an analyst with research firm iSuppli claims that Japanese consumers are buying high-resolution cameraphones and then cancelling the service to just use them as cameras. If you'll excuse our incredulity, we've never heard of anyone doing this, and besides why would anyone want to? A decent cameraphone would almost certainly cost more and take worse pictures than a comparably-sized digital camera, especially in Japan. It's one thing to forego buying a digital camera because you've got a cameraphone. It's another thing entirely to buy a cameraphone just so it can function as a camera. Read...

Shirky: Cameraphones are today's
Gutenberg press

Shirky: Cameraphones are today's
Gutenberg press 05/11/2004 11:59 AM
Clay Shirky has written an excellent entry on the appearance of unmediated photos from the Iraqi front on a Friendster-like service called YAFRO. He likens this -- and other instances of undmediated communication -- to the Protestant Reformation.

The spread of images from Iraq, both relatively plain ones like most of what's on the YAFRO blogs to the horrifying images of torture and abuse from the Abu Ghraib prison are all part of the removal of bottlenecks that will change the political structure in ways we can't predict.

And it isn't just military affairs, its politics and business and everything else, from attempts to coordinate evidence of Apple's manufacturing errors (previously handled case-by-case, but now becoming a kind of grass-rooots class action protest, to Apple's horror) to the distributed amicus brief on the SCO case conducted by the Linux community to the recent right of Americans to get their medical records on request and within 30 days to the publication of spoilers for popular TV shows. (Read this last link now — its from the Times and goes away in 5 days, and although on the surface its about TV, its really a musing on life in a fully disclosed culture.)

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DoCoMo Launches Three New High
Resolution Cameraphones

DoCoMo Launches Three New High
Resolution Cameraphones 12/12/2003 09:19 AM
The Feature Dec 12 2003 8:38AM ET

DXG Introduces First Underwater Ditigal
Camera for Less Than $139 - Compact
Digital Camera Features Protective
Housing for Active Lifestyle Uses

DXG Introduces First Underwater Ditigal
Camera for Less Than $139 - Compact
Digital Camera Features Protective
Housing for Active Lifestyle Uses 07/06/2004 03:09 AM
DXG, one of the world's largest digital camera manufacturers and designers, today announced a digital underwater and waterproof camera for everyday outdoor use. At $139 with capabilities of up to 6.6 megapixels, the DXG-308U sets a new price/performance benchmark for rugged outdoor cameras that can be used in a variety of settings. [PRWEB Jul 6, 2004]

Samsung SCH-S250 Reviewed (Verdict: 5MP
Cameraphones are Nice)

Samsung SCH-S250 Reviewed (Verdict: 5MP
Cameraphones are Nice) 04/14/2005 10:03 AM

Want to know what the pictures from a cameraphone with a 5-megapixel sensor look like? MobileBurn has a review of the Samsung SCH-S250, a Korea-only import that was one of the first from Samsung to feature a high-megapixel sensor (which means no optical zoom like the models announced this year). The pictures are okay, but there is a lot of noise and a lack of color depth to most of them, which bears out the thinking that more megapixels does not necessarily mean more better. Still, it's interesting to see some shots from the same sensors that will likely be in our phones next year.

Testing Out Samsung's 5 Megapixel SCH-S250 [MobileBurn]

Report: Rumsfeld bans cameraphones -
(United Press International)

Report: Rumsfeld bans cameraphones -
(United Press International) 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
Pentagon has banned all cameras .. The Washington Times .. proibir

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Making a pin hole camera that actually
looks like a camera

Making a pin hole camera that actually
looks like a camera 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
Communist-era Czechoslovakian Paper Pinhole camera .. Dirkon - The Paper Camera [pinhole.cz]

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Taking The Camera Out Of The Camera
Phone

Taking The Camera Out Of The Camera
Phone 11/04/2003 07:06 PM
We've had a lot of stories in the last six months or so about shortsighted companies deciding to simply ban camera phones outright. In the past, I wondered if such rules would have an impact on mobile phone sales, but I didn't expect the carriers to jump on this topic so quickly. Put me in the same surprised boat as Alan Reiter to hear that carriers are convincing mobile phone handset makers to offer multiple versions of their phones: one with a camera and the other without. I really thought that with only a few companies overreacting and missing the point about camera phones, it would blow over, and a decade from now we'd be laughing at silly companies banning camera phones. At this rate, that might not be true. This is going to be a huge waste of money. Designing a new phone will take some money, and will create a phone that offers less value to the customer (and less opportunity for revenue for the carrier). However as camera phones begin to find more acceptance in the marketplace, people are going to get angry when their boss tells them the expensive phone they just bought can't be brought into the office. They're not going to want to buy the version without the camera if part of the reason they're upgrading is for the camera in the first place. This is a (costly) over reaction to a technology that will do nothing to stop the real problem (theft of corporate secrets or invasion of privacy), but will cost lots of money and anger many people.

Digital Camera Help Website MalekTips
Offers a Holiday Digital Camera Buying
Guide

Digital Camera Help Website MalekTips
Offers a Holiday Digital Camera Buying
Guide 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
Free advice when shopping for digital cameras - what to look for and what to avoid. [PRWEB Dec 7, 2004]

XEMICS Makes Bluetooth™ Easier New
Solution with Embedded Bluetooth
Controller and Programmable MCU

XEMICS Makes Bluetooth™ Easier New
Solution with Embedded Bluetooth
Controller and Programmable MCU 06/09/2004 02:30 AM
XEMICS today announces a new device based on the unique Embedded-Host Architecture in their EasyBlue™ family. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

* Bluetooth serial assistant - an
assistance for the ports Bluetooth
series on Smartphone

* Bluetooth serial assistant - an
assistance for the ports Bluetooth
series on Smartphone 03/22/2005 04:41 PM
Pocket PC Universe Mar 22 2005 4:51PM GMT

Strategy Analytics: Is There Bluetooth
in Your Ford?; In-vehicle Bluetooth
market worth $20 Billion by 2011

Strategy Analytics: Is There Bluetooth
in Your Ford?; In-vehicle Bluetooth
market worth $20 Billion by 2011 03/14/2005 06:28 PM
dBusinessNews.com Mar 13 2005 4:06AM GMT

TEN Technology naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R)
Stereo Adapter for iPod to be Bundled
with Hewlett-Packard Bluetooth

TEN Technology naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R)
Stereo Adapter for iPod to be Bundled
with Hewlett-Packard Bluetooth 01/06/2005 07:20 AM
Investors Business Daily Jan 6 2005 11:40AM GMT

Review -- Targus Bluetooth Mini Mouse
with Bluetooth Adapter

Review -- Targus Bluetooth Mini Mouse
with Bluetooth Adapter 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
NotebookReview.com Jan 3 2005 5:20PM GMT

SMC’s Newest Wireless Bluetooth USB
Adapter is First to Market with
Bluetooth 1.2 Compliance

SMC’s Newest Wireless Bluetooth USB
Adapter is First to Market with
Bluetooth 1.2 Compliance 12/17/2004 06:44 PM
SMC® Networks (www.smc.com), leading provider of networking solutions for the SMB/e, the ISP and all the way home, today announced the newest member of the EZ Connect™ family of home networking products, the SMC-BT10 EZ Connect Wireless Bluetooth® USB Adapter. The new Bluetooth USB adapter makes it easy to set-up a personal area network (PAN) that connects up to seven Bluetooth-equipped devices such as wireless phones or PDAs. And, Bluetooth 1.2-compliance means that it can take advantage of the better performance and faster connections, while retaining full backward compatibility. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Bluetooth iPod Adapter to be Bundled
with Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

Bluetooth iPod Adapter to be Bundled
with Bluetooth Stereo Headphones 01/06/2005 05:31 PM
Mac Observer Jan 6 2005 9:30PM GMT

PDA News - Palm Bluetooth, PetFrogs,
Bluetooth Virus

PDA News - Palm Bluetooth, PetFrogs,
Bluetooth Virus 06/16/2004 12:46 AM
bargainPDA.com Jun 16 2004 3:07AM GMT

i need a drivers for that camera i miss
my drivers cd plz send me the driver of
this camera

i need a drivers for that camera i miss
my drivers cd plz send me the driver of
this camera 09/05/2004 10:05 PM
TechTree Sep 6 2004 2:42AM GMT

Bluetooth SIG Makes Bluetooth
Specification Available To China

Bluetooth SIG Makes Bluetooth
Specification Available To China 03/19/2005 02:31 AM
ChinaTechNews.com Mar 19 2005 6:44AM GMT
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