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Blogging With Camera Phones
Zastrossi writes "The Register reports that NewBay Software, "is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or 'blogs' using only their phones." Sounds like a pretty sound idea, particularly in that they're selling to the telcos
as opposed to consumers. SMS was one revenue source for mobile providers, will camera phones become another?"
So do they have a workaround for the tiny "keyboards" that cell phones have? Seems like this would only work for an image-only blog.
Will camera phones become another source of revenue, like SMS? The only incentive that ever existed for telcos to launch camera phones was that they can make more revenue.
Admittedly, there may be 10 or less that are worthy of a visit, or can justify their reason to be, but far more often than not, I don't see the point. "Everyone Can Be A Publisher", but I question, Should They?
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Not that scores of people are doing this already using the Danger Sidekick, or anything.
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GSM was really, really smart engineering, which took off because the various stakeholders (wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, network equipment providers) pooled their resources and ideas and achieved a great standard which served everybody (even, if not most the users).
SMS was actually a byproduct of that standard and nobody had an idea how much it would take off. It's immensly successful and a nice source of additional revenue for the carriers.
Camera phones however seems more to be a product of marketing cree^H^H^H^Hexperts in the sense that they try to create a need, which otherwise doesn't exist.
Of course every industry player is very interested in multimedia messaging to succeed. The manufacturers like to sell new, snazzy and expensive phones, carriers charge an arm and a leg and have a huge interest in mms taking off and network equipment providers can sell nice upgrades to the wireless infrastructure.
Now if the consumers play nice, or if this is another wap fiasko in the making only time will tell.
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bad input system + bad camera + bad connection + expensive phone = good?
T9 isn't a bad input system. I use it often, and it works just fine. Sure, it's not as fast as a full keyboard, but it's not a hard system to learn.
If the cameras are anything like what they have in Japan, they won't be bad cameras. The pictures are a bit small (320x200 I think) but they look pretty crisp. Connections aren't that bad, in the US I have an ATT GSM phone and it's bandwidth rates are not that horrible. 19.2kbps at the moment, so uploading a couple pictures and some text will take what.. 10 seconds at most?
Somebody tell me who's making the decisions at the telecom industry. Do they read slashdot?
Sorry to tell you this, but the telecom industry doesn't care about a handful of geeks that think they know what the revolution in mobile communication is. I'd say it's pretty safe that they know much more about the market than anyone else here.
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I don't understand the hatred of blogs that seems so widespread here. Some are good, some are bad, but none of them force you to read them. A good blogger writing about a trip to the grocery store can be really entertaining or enlightening. It's all about the quality of the work and how well it resonates with you. I think it's really amazing that people are willing to offer up there perspective and experience to the world for free. And the camera idea is a really great way to very literally let someone "see the world through your eyes." --mike d
And where is the SourceForge project?
Sounds like a waste of time. Blogging with your phone will only result in mis-typed entries with poorly lit, poorly framed and blurry photos of famous landmarks that you can't quite make out. ...And SMS text messages just result in slowly-entered, oft-mistyped messages that could have been communicated more accurately in about 1/3 the total time, if only some sort of speech telecommunication device were available to the user (heh), but for whatever reason, SMS's sell like hotcakes.
To a computer nerd (I take the liberty of assuming) like yourself, phone blogging sounds a) impractical, b) a step backwards, and/or c) utterly useless. But to a 16 year old girl, it merely sounds "cool."
And cool makes the phone companies money, cuz there's many more 16 year old girls with cell phones than there are people such as yourself.