Photo fit
Sony Ericsson has launched two Cyber-shot camera phones with 3.2 megapixels and some extra software to make taking photos easier. Its BestPic software takes images just before and just after the shot is taken, so that users can pick the best one, or the one where their subject did not move.
The phones, the K800 and K790, are available in the second quarter. Some innovations in mobile photography were also evident at 3GSM 2006. US-based Vizrea’s software can be set up to automatically transmit all photos taken to Vizrea’s server and/or the user’s PC – complete with caption if the user adds one.
The software looks simple to use and saves labelling/organising photos later. It also means that – if you want – your whole photo collection can be stored on the web (privately unless you choose to share) and accessed from a mobile. This means if you bump into an old friend while travelling you can show off your kid, ski lodge or whatever.
However, because the photos are stored as small files, the server store only provides a limited backup if your photo collection is lost or stolen. Mike Toutonghi, chief executive, started the company because he noticed how difficult people were finding it to send picture messages.
A Swedish company, Scalado, has developed software that enables you to crop, brighten or in other ways edit your pics before you send them. Normally, this is quite a challenge because you need more spare memory on your phone to edit a picture and to save an edited picture, than you need to store one.
It has got round the problem by using a kind of streaming so the picture is effectively edited a bit at a time, though it does not look that way to the user.
http://www.SonyEricsson.com
http://www.vizrea.com
http://www.scalado.com
http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com
For examples of pictures taken with a camera phone for a Nokia competition
http://www.seenew.com
Sony Ericsson has launched two Cyber-shot camera phones with 3.2 megapixels and some extra software to make taking photos easier. Its BestPic software takes images just before and just after the shot is taken, so that users can pick the best one, or the one where their subject did not move.
The phones, the K800 and K790, are available in the second quarter. Some innovations in mobile photography were also evident at 3GSM 2006. US-based Vizrea’s software can be set up to automatically transmit all photos taken to Vizrea’s server and/or the user’s PC – complete with caption if the user adds one.
The software looks simple to use and saves labelling/organising photos later. It also means that – if you want – your whole photo collection can be stored on the web (privately unless you choose to share) and accessed from a mobile. This means if you bump into an old friend while travelling you can show off your kid, ski lodge or whatever.
However, because the photos are stored as small files, the server store only provides a limited backup if your photo collection is lost or stolen. Mike Toutonghi, chief executive, started the company because he noticed how difficult people were finding it to send picture messages.
A Swedish company, Scalado, has developed software that enables you to crop, brighten or in other ways edit your pics before you send them. Normally, this is quite a challenge because you need more spare memory on your phone to edit a picture and to save an edited picture, than you need to store one.
It has got round the problem by using a kind of streaming so the picture is effectively edited a bit at a time, though it does not look that way to the user.
http://www.SonyEricsson.com
http://www.vizrea.com
http://www.scalado.com
http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com
For examples of pictures taken with a camera phone for a Nokia competition
http://www.seenew.com
posted by Joia Shillingford at Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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