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Nokia Shows Off Megapixel Camera Phone
Anonymous Coward writes "According to PC World, the Nokia 7610 has been announced at Cebit in Germany - it boasts a megapixel camera (1152 x 864 pixels), 65,000 color screen, and 4x zoom, along with an MP3 music player and smart phone features that allow users to manage and edit digital images. It can also create short films of up to 10 minutes and with the Movie Director application users can add special effects and music to the video clips." Other readers point out a picture of the phone, which comes with the LifeBlog software "to help people organise the information they capture about their lives on handsets."
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I assume that's 4x digital zoom, not optical.
Best stick with the mobile phone that's also a low-res video camera aspect I think instead of making wild marketing claims about how the phone can make you the next Steven Spielberg...
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
That's only 995328 pixels.
As the resolution of the sensor increases in cell-phone cameras, Image quality is going to suck even more because of the crappy little lens used in them.
the 72MB are marketspeak for 8mb internal plus 64mb sd card.
My v601sh is better than this and has been on sale for ages!
Almost, but not quite.
Although it's always fun to point out to megapixel-fetishists that 1024x768 looks find on a 15" panel mere inches from your face (wossat, 50% of your visual field) unless you're staring intently to make out every detail of some nice tits.
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Megapixels is the most idiotic resolution measurement system ever. Quick, what resolution does 3 megapixel equal? 3.2? 4? 5? IF THE CAMERA HAS A RESOLUTION OF 1152x864, just fucking say so. I should make a camera with a resolution of 1x5000000 and call it a 5 megapixel camera just out of spite.
I've had it with mobile-phones... when something new like this comes out, they cost like 2000$, and when the prices are low enhough for the average person to buy something new has been released. Im happy with my Ericson T65, and as long as it survives the daily beating i give it, i will keep it.
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Well, that's great and all...seeing technology advance like this.
But, honestly who buys a phone for the CAMERA? Now we're packing in video editing software and whatnot. Is this really necessary? The quality is usually so poor that it's not worth the small size...
Yea, I own an LG-VX6000, and I tell you this...I bought it for the actual features it has as a phone and not the camera. I've taken a few pictures with the camera, and put simply...there can be no replacement for film and digital cameras anytime in the near future.
If you want to take pictures..buy a camera! It will be a better investment of your money.
I can understand combining a phone, camera, and mp3 player since they are all features that fit into a nice small form factor. I think that this will put a lot of the mp3 players and lower-end digital cameras out of buisness. After all, everyone wants a cell phone, why not get an added feature for just a $$ more. Combining a hand-held game however doesn't really fit the profile though, as with the N-Gage.
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Can I *CALL* people on the damn thing..!?
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Take a good look, iTunes users. This phone has AAC support. One of the few players outside the iPod to do it. Don't take that to mean you can play music from the iTunes Music Store, I doubt it supports the Fairplay DRM, but now you can use the smaller better (IMHO) format than MP3!
http://www.mobitopia.com/20040317.html#155506
Another day, another Nokia with a stupid and clumsy keypad.
Nokia do make nice devices. Phones, though, are a compromise. I've had a look at things like the XDA (you look a real dork holding a big wide PDA to your ear when making a phone call, and it also runs Windows - I don't want MS bloatware in my pocket thanks). The Sony-Ericcson T800/T900 has a much nicer form factor, but you've still got to type with a stylus when you text someone or need to enter a URL.
I bought a new phone less than a month ago, and I looked at all of these. Then I saw the Nokia 6820. It is the same size as my old cheap-o basic Nokia phone, so it fits easily in any pocket I care to put it in...but it folds out - with a full QWERTY keyboard. Although I had to compromise in screen size (standard mobile phone screen) to have a genuine pocket-sized phone, the fold-out keyboard more than makes up for it: texting is fast, if I'm waiting for a plane, I can go onto IRC (using a neat little open source J2ME IRC client), I can ssh into a server if I get the call saying there's trouble and do some basic troubleshooting all with a keyboard. I couldn't care less about cameras particularly.
The camera in my 6820 is useful in case of emergency, or if I really need an image right now and to hell with the quality because it means I now always have a camera with me. If I get rear-ended at traffic lights, I can take some photos of the incident to supply with the insurance forms as an example.
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http://nokia.com/nokia/0,,54665,00.html
Finally, yet another discraction while driving... SMILE!
...It's only a 0.995328 Megapixel camera. You've been lied to!
New Siemens S65, with an integrated 1.3 MegaPix video camera
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http://www.siemens-mobile.com/cds/frontdoor/0,2
I've personally owned four handsets in my time, and through work I've had the experience to use dozens of others, and when asked by others which manufacturer to go for when buying a phone I don't hesitate to say Nokia. But, having seen some of its recent designs, including this one, I can't help but think that the people in Nokia's design teams are losing it.
Just look at the numeric keypad portion of this new handset. Then look at the numeric keypad of any handset you have to hand. Unless you own a quirky model, the odds are that your current numeric keypad is little different to that on a wired phone: four rows of three (1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, *-0-#) arranged in a grid-like fashion with similar-shaped and -sized buttons.
This traditional configuration is great, because it allows you to dial numbers easily by touch alone, even in very poor lighting or total darkness. Now tell me how you're meant to do that on this new handset? 3, 6, 9 and # are pretty well vertically aligned but 1, 4, 7 and * are pratically sloped at 45 degrees.
Now I don't know about you, but if I was dialling without looking (something that's child's play on most phones) I'd expect the 7 to be two buttons directly below the 1, but on this handset, if you drop two buttons vertically down from 1 then you're hitting 8. Which means that to dial a number on this handset you're pretty much forced to look at the keypad as you dial. That's poor design.
Sure, sure, it looks pretty enough. But if how a handset looks even comes in your top three criteria when buying a new phone (above, say, features/functions, battery life and size/weight) then you're a fool.
The unwritten first rule of useability and ergonomics is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". The traditional keypad layout works, and it works damn well: it looks like someone needs to remind Nokia of that.
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according to the specs music is played back using RealOne Player, so no thank you!
Phones are adding things. Watches are getting bigger. Let Phone(t) be a function defining a Phone at type t, likewise for Watch(t).
Phone(t) = Watch(t) | t->infinity
and not to forget that the opera browser is bundeled with another phone.. i wonder if it can become a defacto-standard.. Press statement..
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Since the early 1990s I've seen immense value in having a mobile phone - just to remain in contact. 1990s phones were temperamental, fragile, bulky and permanently approaching a flat battery. In the noughties things started to look up - phones designs started to become more robust (no aerial sticking out); came in conveniently small packages and battery life sufficient for a working week on standby.
Britain recently passed drive-phoning laws - which bans using a hand-held phone while "driving" (including when stationary - say in a not-infrequent motorway hold up) and I decided a legal hands-free kit would be needed. Blue-tooth seemed to be the perfect answer to the problem - a simple system wired into my car so that whenever my engine is running, the in-car hands free kit takes control of any phone calls - allowing me to legally use my phone without taking it out of my pocket. Off I trooped to the mall now obscenely cluttered with mobile phone shops. To say I was surprised is an understatement!
Phone size - if I want blue tooth then I must have a larger phone (very undesirable) but that it would have a camera in it (no use at all thanks - maybe even a hindrance as I might not be permitted to take it with me everywhere I go) and a snazzy colour screen (Why!?! I just want to make and receive calls!) and a dramatically reduced battery life to boot. As for wireless connectivity - the vendors advise it is normally turned off, and activated only for the duration I'm using a particular blue tooth service...( What's the point then!?!!! ) and that using blue tooth would dramatically reduce battery life again!
Don't get me wrong I've been very impressed with my current Nokia 8310, but can't help feeling that more modern phones have become feature crazy and now neglect the primary requirement to make mobile telephone conversations convenient and reliable with minimum effort. Nokia - PLEASE - stop concentrating on the gimmicks and get back to making solid reliable phones for business use.
AAC support on Nokia mobiles is nothing new--the Nokia 3300 and the already discontinued Nokia 5510 have supported AAC for quite some time already.
Here's an another (non-slashdotted) picture of the phone.
It's true... camera phones are really useful for looking up the noughties.
Can you imagine what it will be like when the next spectacular terrorist attack happens, and cnn suddenly gets flooded with multimedia snuff clips from a population saturated with camera-phones?
also consider that broadcast quality tv has about 500 lines of resolution.
And in related news, the security team still maintains that any sort of photographic device won't be allowed on the company grounds, regardless of whether it's an SLR, digital, or a phone. I guess it wasn't because of crappy quality...
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This is just what we needed. A phone, mp3 player, camera, picture and video editing suite. Next up, a flipout butter-knife to take victorinox out of the equasion and we monopolise the market. WooHoo! A phone is hardly that anymore, PDA is the propper term now. Its a fashion accessory actually, teenie bopper girls and boys spend a heap on money on 'the latest' phones just so they can be 'hip'. A phone is meant to RING places...RING! the damn nokia 5110 does that...and it's a measely $15. I know a bunch of you are going to jump at me because otherwise people would carry around 10 different devices, but this has gone too far.
" that's if you don't mind a low resolution low framerate compressed-to-hell pixellated blob resembling vomit!"
So, what your saying is that what you shoot with this camera will look like scrambled p0rn we used to watch. you hope on occasion there is a boob or something you can make out.
Evolution or ID?
It really doesn't matter what Nokia put into their phones as long as they don't know how to make quality.
Here in Norway clerks in several stores where asked if they would recommend Nokia to their customers and almost everyone said no! They have too much customer complaints on Nokia phones. Every third Nokia phone sold in Norway has to get service within 6 months...
The most recommended phones where Siemens and Sony Ericson. They only have to have one out of ten phones into services within 6 months.
I just want to make a damn call from the thing, but the keypad is not very well designed for punching up a phone number. Cell phone keypads have become an ugly mess as of late. I don't need it to do anything but make calls, and have a phone book. I don't need a camera and I have a gameboy. geeze.
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I guess now would not be the time to mention that Japan is already up to two megapixel phones . . .
I use it mostly for documenting rack cabinets at our co-lo and taking pictures of hardware errors in the BIOS log file(never can find a floppy to dump it to) on the IBM servers.
Oh year, and for the occasional Microsoft bluscreen on a information of billboard sign somewhere.
While I can live without my camera in my phone, it has helped me from time to time.
It's no troll, I'm serious. And I can document the numbers from norwegian newspapers.
so what are the restrictions on importing japanese phones?
/with/ shipping. Heck, most of the japanese vodaphones are vastly superior to our tech /and/ cheaper.
I understand they have a different network, but is there any level of compatibility?
at 25000 yen (~$240) that v601sh is a hell of a deal even
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And european/american GSM standard supports those formats?
Nope. Go buy that japanese toy if you like it but it's useless piece of shit in Europe/USA.
In other news, Siemens release a bunch of new phones, one of which has a 1.3 Megapixels camera.
Linky.
Phones with additional features will always be a compromise, between packing all the features in, keeping the size manageable, and trying to make it fit in the hand like a phone should (does anybody really like using those matchbox sized phones?). As it is, in the US and UK, you really need a hands-free device. That could easily be connected to a wristwatch with the same features. Maybe we could even use the cord running between as an aerial, and improve the signal. Then, it becomes an all-purpose device, with less concern about the fit in the hand. With Hitachi's new mini hard drive coming out, it'll be the camera/watch (and/or phone). If you think it's annoying not being able to have your cell phone in a locker room, wait til you can't have your wristwatch in there, because it can store hours of DV. Phones with additional features will always be a compromise, between packing all the features in, keeping the size manageable, and trying to make it fit in the hand like a phone should. As it is, in the US and UK, you really need a hands-free device. That could easily be connected to a wristwatch with the same features. Maybe we could even use the cord running between as an aerial, and improve the signal. Then, it becomes an all-purpose device, with less concern about the fit in the hand. A+ certified, and just as proud of being potty-trained
I've had nothing but bad experiences with Siemens so called cellphones. One died after 3 days of purchase. The next one (the one I got with my warrant) lost all my contact information and notes after 4 months of operation. Repairman upgraded the software and before I walked home with my upgraded Siemens phone I noticed it hat gasped it's last breath. Sad. Never gonna buy Siemens again.
For the employee friends, visitors, vendors and contractors, this means they are immediately banned from any and all sites for a duration of 3 years. The employee who has friends onsite using a cameraphone is immediately terminated.
They are being very harsh, but these are the rules. Having someone walking around with a miniature camera in their hands inside labs, through buildings, etc. is an ENORMOUS risk to them.
Check with your employer first, before you invest in one of these phones, or you could find yourself out on the curb without a job.
Cellphone vendors need to be very careful with their product lines, and includes phones that do NOT include these features, so that they can continue to sell product. Don't just cater to the teenagers who think having a camera and a phone is "cool". Cater to the people who actually have to pay for those cellphone bills... the parents, and the businesspersons who actually use the devices for what they are.. a phone.
Careful if you're buying a camera phone. They're rather good fun, but you need to know upfront whether you're going to be able to transfer pictures onto a PC directly.
I know a number of people who have to send a costly email/photomessage for every picture they want to move off their phone, because their network operator (from whom they bought the phone) has disabled the functionality to transfer a picture over a wire/bluetooth/IR.
I'm no translator, So anyone else please do the translating. But here are the articles.
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Noone recomends Nokia:
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302995.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/nett/article.jh
Nokia most repaired:
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=1933591
From the last article:
"Mens hver tredje solgte Nokia-telefon ma inn til reparasjon, er tallene langt bedre for konkurrentene Siemens, Sony Ericsson og Motorola. Fra disse produsentene trenger bare hver tiende telefon service for det er gatt seks maneder."
translated to: "While every third Nokia-phone sold have to have service, the numbers for Simens,Sony Ericsson and Motorola are much better. only 1 out of 10 need service within 6 months."
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I'll admit that the functionality and versitility of these new phones sound great, but it really begs the question, how much is too much?
It's hard enough to pry some people off a computer and make them, oh let's say, take a walk outside. I don't know if I could handle seeing every other person sitting at a park bench "appreciating" the scenery by listening to an mp3, taking pictures, and posting them in their blog.
It's probably inevitable. I just hope we don't let technology govern what little part of our everyday life that we have left that isn't affected by technology.
I for one am sick of all these new feature being put into phones. What happened to wireless sets that were actually good as phones.. Since my first wireless in 1995 it seems that every generation of phone seems to get worse and worse, more feature and poorer reception. Gimme a good old fasioned brick phone with support for the new wireless networks and I'd be a happy happy person, imagine the standby time you could get with a brickphone sized battery and newer more efficient processing....
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Actually, it's standard for digital camera manufacturers to quote the megapixel rating based on the entire sensor, rather than the output resolution. The sides of the sensor are blacked out, for calibration, and don't appear in the final image.
1600x1200, for example, is the standard 2.0 megapixel resolution (but 1600x1200 is actually only 192k pixels).
I mean, it fits the pattern. Every second store on the high street is a phone store. Phones are made increasingly more difficult to use, and are replaced more and more frequently until eventually it becomes uneconomic to open anything other than a phone shop.
I warned you. Don't say I didn't warn you when the Phone Warriors are sent in. Relax and enjoy your phones. They are very stylish and fashionable...
Cheers,
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RealOne player isn't the only app capable of playing music on the Symbian platform, although it does tend to come preinstalled with most of the recent Nokias.
Wow, this sounds great, but how does this PHONE do with making PHONE CALLS? You know, the thing you use your phone for 90% of the time? I'd bet that most people who have camera/mp3/video/whatever capabilities in their phones probably use those for about 3 days until the "look, it's cool" factor wears off, then they just talk on their phone like normal people.
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sony had this out in 2002... and it did work through a bluethooth phone...
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A pretty sweet camera... great design... i'm STILL using the earlier model with the same design...
Yeah, especially seeing as ogg/vorbis is OS and MP3 isn't.
I just compressed the new zero 7 album to MP3 @ 180kbps and to ogg @ circa 120kbps: ogg is obviously the smaller file size (this is so important for data transfer) while the quality is audibly no different - neither is perfect but ogg has the advantage, I think.
OS afficianados really ought to at least consider making the switch (almost painlesss) to ogg/vorbis.
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1920k.
Sony Ericsson have a 1.3 MegaPixel 1280 x 960 16x zoom called SO505iS.
1600x1200, for example, is the standard 2.0 megapixel resolution (but 1600x1200 is actually only 192k pixels).
Ummm, you mean 1,920k pixels right?
AirSpeak - http://itunes.com/apps/AirSpeak
> a megapixel camera (1152 x 864 pixels), 65,000 color screen, and 4x zoom
It's too hard to indicate a megapixel picture on this cheap screen.
Following Japanese mobile phone company, Nokia should take a QVGA screen.
You can use those phones:)
They are 3G phones covering WCDMA & CDMA 1X.
You suck!
It's worse than that. Mine (an Olympus C2020Z) claims 2.1 megapixels, yet is still only 1600x1200.
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You could always try a SonyEricsson T68i - for a mobile phone it's pretty old now, but:
a) It's fairly small
b) It's got a good battery life
c) It's got bluetooth and GPRS
d) Okay, it's got a colour screen, but it's small and doesn't have a camera or anything
e) They're really cheap and easy to get hold of nowadays
I have heard of people having reliability and speed problems with them, but mine's always been fast and rock solid, so I'm guessing it's something to do with the older firmware revisions or something.
As for bluetooth - it's true that you have to specially turn it on to being discoverable (which on the T68i only lasts for 3 minutes), however this doesn't matter once you've paired your BT headset with it.
Once the devices are paired, they should just work. I've had no problems with my T68i and a BT headset, and my Palmpilot connects to it fine as well.
i used to only have to worry about the soccer mom talking on her phone while driving... now i got to worry about her trying to be talked through taking a picture, while listening to a kenny G MP3 on the highway... fabulous
Refresh my memory. Why do people, all of a sudden, need cameras in their phones? Pictures, mp3 playback, Internet access, email, instant messaging... I can hardly wait until Nokia releases a phone that does everything EXCEPT actually make phone calls. *Rolls eyes*
... sure, we do it this way, but Nokia targets it's phones to everyone,
:)
including for an important part (and this is not meant discriminative, nor stereo-typing) women .
And they happen to fancy phones that look nice, rather than those with pure functionality.
As research shows that more women own mobile phones than men,
you better be giving that group the advantage.
It'll probably be a temporary thing though.
Once every phone is fashioned with a touchscreen like the SE-P900, you can make your own key-layout
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Hey... only pictures? What in the world happened to my cd burning, flow bee haircutting, enema delivering, nose picking cell phone? THOSE are the features I REALLY need... Oh wait, I have an antenna for picking my nose.
But I really, really need the rest of those features!
This has nothing to do with trolling, but with information. The information in the post above is well known facts in Norway.
t ml?articleID=740523b s?artid=1933591
Maybe it's because of the climate in Norway, but it's still a problem.
So when someone advertises for Nokia on Slashdot, I think people has the right to know that Nokia isn't all that good. They have a reputation about accepting more quality problems than the other mobile-producers.
Sure they have good features, but if they took some more time on QA they might have made quality products too.
I'll post the URLs (again), but I don't care to translate, I'm not that good an translater. I'll give a short summary though:
- The first two articles are about the same thing. basicly saying that the stores don't dare to recomend Nokia because of the quality problems.
- The last article is a bit older, saying that Nokia has the phones that need most repaires (1 out of 3).
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302995.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/nett/article.jh
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.h
So again...this is not a troll, but informative.
The 'spotlight' movie on nokia's site is absolutley hilarious. http://nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,54996,00.html I would give a synopsis, but I wouldn't want to ruin this masterpiece.
Let me try to explain...
If you move your right thumb up and down like you were dialing a number, it can be somewhat natural to move down and to the left at the same time. I think the keypad shape reflects this movement. It might be more natural than expected to dial numbers with the distorted keypad shape.
Guess I gotta go to a shop and try it out first.
..it's i-mode only, isn't it?
...sometimes, there are compromises. Quite often, in fact. And at some point you have to ask yourself, is this really what it started out as? Some of the phones these days sounds more like PDAs where you add a little add-on module to make it a cell phone than the other way around.
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Don't be too surprised if it soon comes a multi-gadget with a feature list containing:
Digital Camera
Kitchen Sink
Cell phone (optional)
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what's the difference between sd card and a mmc? are they cross compatible?
1 MP.. big deal? There's been a 2 MP camera-phone out in Japan for 5 months (with a Fuji-developed sensor and lens) and a 1 MP camera-phone for over a year. This isn't exactly ground-breaking technology news. :/
can you please add NightShot for those "special" moments?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
I guess it's time to put my 10D on eBay..
Must-not-watch TV!
Nokia seems to have this weird fixation of pushing more and more weird keypads to their phones one after another. Not that they are the only ones, something like Siemens SX1 is even worse, but still...
What's wrong with the good old squarish design with all numeric keys being at least approximately same size & shape?
Seriously, I don't want all this stuff in my cel phone. Obviously many people do, or they wouldn't be making this stuff, but I just want a PHONE, preferably one with just a grayscale text display. I don't ever want my phone to crash, y'know?
Does such an animal even exist anymore? Or do you have to get a multi-color screen, mp3 player, etc. etc.???
/.: why the hell am I here?
http://www.theregister.com/content/68/36331.html
This is like putting a v8 engine on a tricycle..
You have a magepixel display/camera on a telephone which can't verywell utilize the content. unless using a wireless wap connection.. Kinda pointlesss.
Just say no to license servers!!
Calypso's Patent Could Have an Immediate Impact on the Way OEMs Do Business
March 3, 2004 5:30am ET (BusinessWire)
Calypso Wireless, Inc. (OTC:CLYW), announced today that it is in the process of contacting all major OEMs in the wireless industry to notify them of the patent that could have a significant and immediate impact on the development of the industry, as well as major implications on the way OEM's such as Nokia (NYSE:NOK), Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERICY) and Motorola (NYSE:MOT) do business. Last week, Calypso Wireless announced it had been granted U.S. Patent #6,680,923 titled "Communication system and method", which covers the seamless roaming of voice, video and data between Wide Area Network access points, such as cellular towers (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, WCMDA etc.) and short-range Internet access points (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.). Calypso Wireless is already in negotiations with a major OEM manufacturer to license its ASNAP(TM) technology. Due to the patent, even those OEM manufacturers that don't wish to license Calypso's technology at the time, but plan to create wireless devices that roam seamlessly between these networks, will have to obtain rights from Calypso Wireless.
Calypso's patented technology enables mobile users to seamlessly switch between cellular and wireless IP networks via the WLAN, accelerating wireless broadband deployment. The technology could also provide significant savings to mobile carriers in additional frequency spectrum and infrastructure equipment by offloading capacity to the WLAN and IP networks while providing additional sources of revenues. Internet-ready devices, including wireless cellular phones, PDA's and notebooks - can seamlessly connect to either the mobile carriers cellular phone network or any wireless LAN, such as 802.11x (Wi-Fi). In other words, global connectivity of voice, video and data will be done through the most efficient connection point, at a lower cost to both the mobile carrier and the consumer.
"Our technology could dramatically boost overall wireless handset sales, and change the industry's growth projections globally. We believe that when consumers will be given an opportunity to connect at a speed of up to 11,000 Kbps (11Mbps) so that they will be able to watch DVD-quality movies or perform movie-quality, real-time video conferencing, they will use it. By teaming up with us, OEMs will now be able to manufacture and market such devices and dramatically boost their sales," says David Davila, President & CEO of Calypso Wireless.
About Calypso Wireless, Inc.
Calypso Wireless is the company behind the revolutionary ASNAP(TM) technology for which Calypso recently was granted US Patent #6,680,923 titled "Communication system and method" Calypso's technology enables the phones and other mobile devices to automatically detect an available wireless local area network and then seamlessly switch between the signals from a GSM/GPRS link tower to a short range broadband network such as cable with Wi-Fi. The wireless customer remains connected to the GSM/GPRS or CDMA network until his mobile phone automatically detects and switches to a Wi-Fi network. At that point, the phone seamlessly switches to that network and is now able to connect at a speed of up to 11,000 Kbps (11Mbps) enabling movie-quality, real-time video conferencing via Calypso's cell / Wi-Fi phones, or any mobile device powered with Calypso's technology.
This release is intended as a forward-looking statement within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The risks and uncertainties that may affect the operations, performance development and results of the Company's business include but are not limited to (i) The ability to provide technology in the future, (ii) Unexpected changes in the technology market, (iii) The success of the Company's expansion and sales and marketing strategies (iv) Competition within the Data Synchronization market (v) The ability of the Company to continue to finance its long-term strategy and
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In Japan we have several 2 megapixel phones.
As for the thoughts that these cameras will not replace digital cameras, they will for all those people that only need snap shots. The Casio Exlim series has lenses small enough they could fit just fine in a cellphone and they take pictures that 80% of the population would be happy with. Integrate the 2, will happen by next year in Japan, and there will be no reason for 80% of the digital cameras out there. Only the Pro-sumer stuff will have a point.
I suppose Vorbis would be less of a pain, since you can always find software to translate from MP3 to Vorbis. But life is a lot simpler if you don't need special software to access your device. The best MP3 devices act like a plug-and-play disk drive, and let you download files with a simple copy.
Sony's minidisc software was so buggy that instead of using what Sony provided, I installed Realone with my drive's plugin for Realone to transfer my files :)
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