CVS Checks Out Cameraphone Printing

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Wireless handset industry leaders join
Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium
to drive new consumer printing s

Wireless handset industry leaders join
Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium
to drive new consumer printing s 04/29/2004 09:15 AM
HUGIN Online Apr 29 2004 12:28PM GMT

Printing Industry Commentator Dr. Joe
Webb Starts New “Blog” at
DrJoesBlog.com; Offers Observations
About Trends in Printing, Publishing,
and New Media

Printing Industry Commentator Dr. Joe
Webb Starts New “Blog” at
DrJoesBlog.com; Offers Observations
About Trends in Printing, Publishing,
and New Media 04/14/2005 02:12 AM
www.DrJoesBlog.com features the analytic commentary of Dr. Joe Webb, 27+ year printing industry veteran, commentator, and consultant. The “blog” is aimed at executives who are curious about the trends of the printing, publishing, and new media markets, anxious for a thoughtful, contrarian analysis and perspective. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

FinePrint 5 Earns 5-Star Review and
Bityard Choice Award as "One of the Most
Innovative Software Printing Drivers" -
Reduces Paper Waste and Improves
Printing Efficiency

FinePrint 5 Earns 5-Star Review and
Bityard Choice Award as "One of the Most
Innovative Software Printing Drivers" -
Reduces Paper Waste and Improves
Printing Efficiency 07/26/2004 03:37 AM
Bityard, a popular online technology news & reviews magazine, has awarded FinePrint Software’s FinePrint 5 its highest rating, along with a “Bityard Choice” award. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

Internet and Changes in Media and
Promotion Mix Drive Printing Industry
Shipments Down -$929 million Since
January; Dr. Joe Webb Discusses Need for
Printing Industry Change and Renewal

Internet and Changes in Media and
Promotion Mix Drive Printing Industry
Shipments Down -$929 million Since
January; Dr. Joe Webb Discusses Need for
Printing Industry Change and Renewal 06/07/2004 02:37 AM
Printing industry shipments declined by -$342 million in April, when compared to April 2003. Shipments are down -2.9% for the first four months of the year. Alternatives such as new media, the Internet, event marketing and promotions have negatively affected industry volume. A free PDF copy of the table of contents and first chapter of Dr. Webb’s “Renewing the Print Industry” report is available. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Toy cameraphone

Toy cameraphone 11/19/2003 02:07 PM
Guess you gotta get 'em while they're young: Japanese toymaker Tomy is selling a toy cellphone with a built-in digital camera. You can't make a phone call with it, but you can take low-resolution photos with it and share them with friends. Read...

Samsung's new cameraphone

Samsung's new cameraphone 03/21/2003 12:13 AM

Finally, a cameraphone that works with Sprint PCS that we might consider buying: the SPH-A600 from Samsung. Like nearly every Samsung cellphone, the A600 has the clamshell design we're partial to, a 260,000 color screen that rotates and flips around, and a swiveling built-in camera with 4x digital zoom.
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Verizon's second cameraphone

Verizon's second cameraphone 12/15/2003 11:41 AM
Verizon has only just come out with their second cameraphone, the Audiovox CDM-8900 (which has a 0.3 megapixel camera with self-timer), and Alan Reiter isn't...

Cameraphone services guide

Cameraphone services guide 01/23/2004 02:18 PM
CNET guide to the different cameraphone services offered by each cellular carrier (except for Nextel, which doesn't offer a cameraphone - yet). Read [Via Reiter's...

5 Megapixel Cameraphone Future

5 Megapixel Cameraphone Future 05/11/2004 11:58 AM
There's a great article at the EETimes about the latest developments in cameraphones and their relevance to the everyday user. It's become clear that cameraphones are soon going to be nothing more than just 'phones'--the camera is pretty much a default feature, except in 'business phones' where the cameras are...

First cameraphone with auto-focus

First cameraphone with auto-focus 11/11/2003 01:12 AM
Ever the innovator, NTT DoCoMo is carrying Panasonic's new P505iS, the world's first cameraphone with an auto-focus lens. The P505iS has a 65,000 color display, a mini-trackball for navigation, and a resolution of 1.27 megapixels. Sooner or later auto-focus is going to be a standard feature on all cameraphones. Read...

Unscientific Cameraphone Tests

Unscientific Cameraphone Tests 05/04/2004 09:24 AM
It's no big secret that cameraphones, at they currently stand, are basically crap. And while what they lack in quality is easily ignored due to their convenience, it'd be nice if there were some metric to judge them by. Studio2f isn't quite taking us all the way there, but these...

Compare prices with your cameraphone

Compare prices with your cameraphone 12/24/2003 01:21 PM
We've mentioned NeoMedia's PaperClick before, but there's now another software application for cameraphones that let's you comparison shop from your phone. Both NeoMedia's PaperClick and...

NEC's compact cameraphone

NEC's compact cameraphone 01/05/2004 02:28 AM
A new "ladies phone" from NEC. The NEC N910 is a "compact" cameraphone (pun intended) with an LCD screen that becomes a mirror when...

Motorola's ultrathin V3 cameraphone

Motorola's ultrathin V3 cameraphone 07/26/2004 08:57 PM
Engadget Jul 27 2004 1:07AM GMT

LG's VX8000 3G cameraphone

LG's VX8000 3G cameraphone 07/21/2004 09:28 PM
Engadget Jul 22 2004 0:53AM GMT

Live from CES: The first one megapixel
cameraphone for the US

Live from CES: The first one megapixel
cameraphone for the US 01/11/2004 03:46 PM
Audiovox has also been showing off here at CES what could likely be the first one megapixel cameraphone to become available in the United States....

Broccoli History Via Cameraphone

Broccoli History Via Cameraphone 07/19/2004 11:15 AM

Produce giant Dole is introducing a new Japanese service that will allow cameraphone users to track the history of their fruits and vegetables by scanning a special "QR" barcode. The service is even more exclusive than Japan-only at the moment -- for now, the only vegetable history available is that of broccoli. Everyone knows where broccoli comes from: the crunchy, cold depths of nutritional hell. But at least now you'll know which hell, and which creaking iron cart was used to haul it from the depths where flavor goes to die.
R ead - Data hungry? Tap into your cell [Asahi via USC IMD via WMMNA< /a> via AdMblo g]

Nobody Prints Cameraphone Pictures

Nobody Prints Cameraphone Pictures 12/28/2004 11:13 AM

We bought Susie's mom a low-end digital camera this year. Upon opening, her first words were, "Oh, I'll have to get one of those little photo printers so I can send you guys some pictures." I, naturally, was appalled—we don't even own a printer, nor have I given much thought to purchasing one, when I can send people to Flickr or copy Mapquest directions to a laptop or PDA. But apparently some people think the next big market for cameraphone users is making prints from the images. Instead, why don't we just start teaching people how to use online photo sharing services, then using the services' built-in print ordering affiliations to make prints when necessary? If the Wall Street Journal is reporting that people aren't printing cameraphone pictures, maybe that's not a shortcoming of the printers—maybe printers just aren't necessary.

It's a crazy world, though. Someone yesterday tried to fax me something. I just about coughed out my tracheal data shunt.

Cam era phone pictures are not printed [Textually]

Vodafone readies 1megapixel cameraphone

Vodafone readies 1megapixel cameraphone 02/19/2004 12:45 PM
vnunet.com Feb 19 2004 5:19PM GMT

Shocker: Cameraphone Photos Not Printed

Shocker: Cameraphone Photos Not Printed 12/28/2004 02:51 PM
Apparently printer makers are freaking out that, even as cameraphone popularity grows, no one is actually printing out cameraphone photos. Of course, in reading this, it seems like they're skipping a step. Are people printing out any digital camera photos, whether or not they're from cameraphones? While some people definitely do, plenty of people (especially of the younger generations who are more likely to jump on the cameraphone bandwagon) are probably perfectly happy in most cases to simply store their photos online for viewing. Printing out photos seems sort of archaic. Trying to convince people to print them out, as the printer makers are apparently doing, seems sort of pointless. It's like convincing new automobile owners that they should hook up a horse to pull the vehicle.

Verizon carrying new Samsung cameraphone

Verizon carrying new Samsung cameraphone 02/13/2004 02:46 PM
Verizon Wireless is carrying a new cameraphone from Samsung, the Samsung SPCH-a610, which also has a display which can swivel 180 degrees. Read...

Samsung SPH-2300: 3 Megapixel
Cameraphone

Samsung SPH-2300: 3 Megapixel
Cameraphone 07/12/2004 02:08 PM

The future is now. Unfortunately, the future is now in Korea, a land filled with a fine people and such, don't get me wrong, but a land that is also, clearly, not right here in my apartment. So with Samsung's introduction of a new 3-megapixel cameraphone, the SPH-2300, we Westerners have all been apparently flung backwards into the past, which is cool from a "countdown to death" perspective, but otherwise, you know, I'd rather just have my 3-megapixel cameraphone -- especially one with optical zoom, miniSD slot, and built-in flash.
Read - Samsung Introduces 3 Million Pixel Resolution Camera Phone [Chosun via Engadget]

Pantech & Curitel Twisty Cameraphone

Pantech & Curitel Twisty Cameraphone 03/22/2005 04:46 PM

One of my very favorite cell phone companies, Pantech & Curitel, continue to make with the weird designs with this unreleased, unannounced cameraphone that shares a similar form factor to many small camcorders. Telecoms Korea's story is a little confusing, but best I can tell this doesn't have an official product number yet.

Curitel Challenges Stereotype About Camera Phone Design [TelecomsKorea via Pic turePhoning]

Fujitsu's Invisible Cameraphone
Hyperlinks

Fujitsu's Invisible Cameraphone
Hyperlinks 07/05/2004 10:47 AM

Fujitsu has developed a method for invisibly embedding information into printed images as small as a centimeter square. By printing a series of (hopefully) imperceptible yellow dots into an image, up to 12 digits of numeric information can be hidden, allowing a company to embed a phone number or encoded URL. Then, by taking a picture of the image with a cameraphone or PDA, special software can decode the numbers and call the company's phone number or look up their webpage. It's just in a proof-of-concept stage at the moment, but if they can jam a few more bits of data, like say a full character set instead of numbers, it could be a handy technology.

But if it's invisible, how will anyone know it's there? They'll have to make a little logo to indicate it somehow, and then it's not any better than any of the other visual hyperlinking systems out there.
Read - Fujitsu Labs Develops Technology to Embed 'Invisible' Data on Printed Image [NEAsiaOnline via TheRawFeed]

SENT Cameraphone Exhibition Opens This
Weekend

SENT Cameraphone Exhibition Opens This
Weekend 07/07/2004 09:29 AM

Just a reminder that the SENT -- the first major exhibition of camera phone art in the US, co-sponsored by BoingBoingienne Xeni Jardin and sixspace gallery owners Sean Bonner and Caryn Coleman -- is opening to the public this Saturday in Los Angeles, showcasing phone camera art from filmmakers, actors, bloggers, and even proper photographers, like hip-hop scenesman Estevan Oriol, whose work we have a sneak preview of right here. Sounds like a lot of fun; I consider it your duty, left-coasters, to visit in my absence.

Full press release after the jump.

Casio Announces World's First 3.2
Megapixel Cameraphone

Casio Announces World's First 3.2
Megapixel Cameraphone 05/18/2004 07:31 AM
Wireless Watch Japan brings word of the world's first 3.2-megapixel cameraphone (from Casio of all people), called, inventively, the A5406CA. Equipped with automatic focus and multiple image modes (like 'twilight' and 'food'), the A5406CA can also take video, claiming to squeeze 60 minutes of video into the 12MB of on-board...

Students Develops Bluetooth Cameraphone
Jammer

Students Develops Bluetooth Cameraphone
Jammer 09/10/2004 09:26 AM

Blueserker passes on information from an article in Singapore's Asia One about three students from Temasek Polytechnic who have figured out a way to disable the camera function of select Nokia phones via Bluetooth. While the concept itself is interesting - enter a 'no camera' zone, and your phone disables itself automagically - the fact that Nokia's Bluetooth implementation allows a remote user to disable functions is probably the more immediate issue here. The affected phones are the 6600 and the 7210 - an attempt to shut down a 7650 failed.

Read - Asian students figure out how to shut down cameraphone voyeurs [Blueserker]

Curitel S4 2-Megapixel Cameraphone, 2x
Optical Zoom

Curitel S4 2-Megapixel Cameraphone, 2x
Optical Zoom 07/03/2004 01:32 PM

Slashphone has information about a new phone available on Korea's SKT Telecom, produced by Pantech & Curite (?) and packed with features that we won't see for a while yet. In addition to the 320 x 240 260K color screen, 63MB of usable memory, and MiniSD, the Curitel S4 has a 2-megapixel camera with a 2x optical zoom. Yes, it's painful, but what can we do? Hopefully some of the phones with the 1.3-megapixel cameras will sell well here in the US and encourage the carriers to bring over the hotter cameraphones sooner (I wouldn't count on it, though).
Read - Korea's Curitel S4 [Slashphone]

Shoot and buy - using a cameraphone to
purchase anything you see in a store,
cheaper

Shoot and buy - using a cameraphone to
purchase anything you see in a store,
cheaper 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Sean Neville is on a roll with some great ideas: Project Atom, Amazon, Mobile Web Services, and Fireflies at REST...

Cameraphone Identity Theft Myth In The
News Again

Cameraphone Identity Theft Myth In The
News Again 12/24/2004 12:18 PM
Earlier this year, we had a story about the possibility that someone might, possibly, maybe use a cameraphone to snap a photo of your credit card when you pulled it out to pay at the supermarket. There was no evidence that this was actually happening, and it seemed a bit far-fetched for a variety of reasons. One of Techdirt's readers even took out a fairly good cameraphone and tested it out, noting that it's impossible to accurately photograph a credit card with current cameraphone technology. That isn't to say this won't become an issue as the quality gets better -- and the quality has gotten better in the past year. However, there's still no evidence that this is really happened anywhere. Instead, we get Gizmodo pointing to another article with quotes from police officers who say it's happening all the time in South Florida. They don't give any evidence. They haven't found anyone doing it. Someone says that "it's real easy to capture someone's information by standing behind somebody," without actually proving it. In fact, it's not that easy. The article also notes that identity theft is "the fastest growing crime in Florida," but puts it in context to make you think that identity theft by cameraphones is the fastest growing crime in Florida. Well, I guess if it's gone from 0 to 1, that's an infinite increase, but there isn't any evidence that it's ever happened anywhere. They quote one guy who claims his aunt's bank account was wiped out, and he assumes they got her ATM card number this way. Yes, apparently, without anyone noticing, they're assuming this criminal first took a photo of the ATM card in a clear enough manner to see the numbers, and then again used the camera phone to look over her shoulder to capture each button should pushed on the keypad to record her pin. Sounds likely.

Deleted Cameraphone Images Easily
Retrieved?

Deleted Cameraphone Images Easily
Retrieved? 08/17/2004 09:07 AM

So the technical information is all jacked up in this article at the Khaleej Times (phones with hard disks? 'symptoms phones'?) but the point they're trying to make is still valid. With the first and second generation of widespread cameraphones getting long in the tooth, many people are trading them in for new models with better features. Be careful, though, to erase all your data before trading it in - just pulling out your SIM card will not be enough.

That being said, the story on the Times is about people being able to retrieve images (and presumably data) even after you have deleted them. That make be the case, depending on how the flash memory file systems work, but that's not the sort of thing that you usually have to worry about. Does anybody know of a phone OS or software that lets you do this?

Read - Reselling cell phones with camera has risks as pictures can be retrieved [KhaleejTimes via Pic turePhoning]

Woman Helps Police Investigation With
Cameraphone

Woman Helps Police Investigation With
Cameraphone 05/03/2004 10:59 AM
This is why, despite all the ridiculous freakouts about privacy, cameraphones are a good thing:As the police arrived and a crowd gathered outside the motel, the Browns noticed a strange-acting man. He asked what had happened and ran across the U.S. 1 Bypass, to a van parked at the College...

British MP kicked out of Parliament for
playing with his cameraphone

British MP kicked out of Parliament for
playing with his cameraphone 12/19/2003 11:54 AM
A British member of Parliament got himself kicked out of the House of Commons for playing with his cameraphone during a debate. The MP, Henry...

CES Continues: 1 Megapixel Cameraphone,
V600 on AT&T, and Bluetooth Galore

CES Continues: 1 Megapixel Cameraphone,
V600 on AT&T, and Bluetooth Galore 01/09/2004 11:23 PM
The Feature Jan 9 2004 8:39PM ET

Swedish Gang Members Punk Nurses Via
Cameraphone

Swedish Gang Members Punk Nurses Via
Cameraphone 09/21/2004 03:02 PM

The gritty streets of Sweden are littered with the burnt and twisted carcasses of their many gang members, toppled bun carts, and half-expended tubs of peroxide paste - and now the violence is spreading to the hospitals, or so they would have us believe. Word is that youth who think they need prioritized health care are sending cameraphone picture threats to medical staff. As if nearly-free health care wasn't enough, now they've got to go and get all pissy because they aren't first in line. They ought to come over here and get stabbed - then we can see how much they like waiting in line, filling out the forms to claim you're a one-legged Hasid lesbian.

Also, this particular internet person pictured may not actually be a real Swede gang member, but that's not what Google thinks.

Read - Young people use camera phones to threaten caregivers [Textually]

The Motorola V710, Verizon's one
megapixel cameraphone with Bluetooth

The Motorola V710, Verizon's one
megapixel cameraphone with Bluetooth 07/20/2004 04:17 PM
Engadget Jul 20 2004 7:09PM GMT

NEC N840 Cameraphone Reviewed (Verdict:
Solid With a Nice Camera)

NEC N840 Cameraphone Reviewed (Verdict:
Solid With a Nice Camera) 04/19/2005 11:04 AM

The NEC N840, which we mentioned in November, is a big 2-megapixel cameraphone not yet available on American shores. It's quite beefy and underpowered but the camera and reception are excellent, according to MobileBurn.

It's nice to see that the phone has an externally accessible Mini-SD storage slot. That's the one thing that saves a lot of these high-megapixel monsters from extinction.

Review of NEC's 2 Megapixel N840 [MobileBurn]

Go Digital How mobiles can save lives,
the row over radio tagging and art from
a cameraphone

Go Digital How mobiles can save lives,
the row over radio tagging and art from
a cameraphone 04/19/2004 10:59 AM
BBC Apr 19 2004 3:45PM GMT

Final Fantasy: Before Crisis Beta
Testing, Gain Magic from Cameraphone

Final Fantasy: Before Crisis Beta
Testing, Gain Magic from Cameraphone 09/01/2004 01:18 PM

We don't normally talk about games here, but I think this is a worthwhile exception. Japanese RPG gamers will be elated to hear that Square Enix has begun beta testing of "Before Crisis: Final Fantasy 7" today. Or actually, you probably should be even more jealous - this game is only being offered to the small community of people that own one of five particular NTT DoCoMo 900i series phone models.

Still, we can dream, or better, whine about it to Squeenix. Set in the Final Fantasy 7 world, "Before Crisis" takes place 6 years before "Final Fantasy 7." Players can choose from either male or female characters, who have different weapons. Regardless of whom you choose, though, your character will be a member of ShinRa's elite group: the Turks.

But here's the cool part. One feature of the phone game is the "Materia Generator," which allows you to use your phone's camera to somehow create Materia to be used in the game. Unfortunately, not even the official site goes into any detail whatsoever, but it sounds at least momentarily diverting, if nothing else.

If they don't release a localized English version of this game, they're nuts.

Read - Official Site [Square Enix]

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