This is EXACTLY why I want to use it too. I have just got a new mobile phone that does AAC and I want to play the tunes I bought off ITMS but I don't want the hassle of having two sets of music, one DRM free and the other not for my iPod.
Actually, this is how they really work - I know this because I read about it on the back of a cereal packet. First the bluetooth connection links in with your cameraphone. You have to pair the two so that they know each other and will talk to each other, it's like friendly functions in C++. After that, is just a matter of clipping your cameraphone to your jacket, or if you've got one of those new flip phones you can just slide it over your top pocket so the camera points out. Ideally, you'll be on a 3G network, but 2.5G works quite well depending on your location because the camera will take photos every few seconds and relay them back to the Oakly NOC. Now, here I'm afraid it becomes decidedly low-tech: They tried baysian filters, image recognition filters and even that technology out of Cambridge that detects excessive pink in the photos, but nothing worked better than just hiring some minimum-wage dufus off the street to quickly scan the photos. When they spot images that cross the threshold of danger they hit a big red button on their desk. It's one of those emergency stop buttons you see at the conveyor sushi restaurants - you know the type - and whamo - a high-priority paging packet is beamed to the phone, zips through the bluetooth connection an shuts those glasses down! Black. Can't see a thing. And just in time too. H2TG make them out to be some all included device but this is the state of the art folks. If they sell well, next year it'll all be integrated. Such is the life cycle of bluetooth devices.
NEC say in the press release that these super computers start at ~$10,000 a month rental. Maybe that's the base line model but isn't $10,000 a month peanuts for a serious spaceship business?
Actually it makes a lot of sense to use VoIP on a mobile if the mobile is dual-mode WiFi and GSM. Why put WiFi on a mobile? Well from a VoIP point of view, WiFi, although it has small cells can actually fill in gaps that GSM doesn't cover very well, especially in-building coverage at 1900MHz (US) either at home or the office. This would essentially extend the carrier's network for free (for them). Although there a lot of technical hurdles to overcome IMO, it looks like Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) is coming to a phone near you.
Yep, in my company ( a huge multinational Japanese company) we don't have a marketing group in the US at all. The whole show is run by engineers out of Japan and we have a tough time telling them not to stick features in. That's a cultural thing of course - in Japan even grandmothers can use email on a cellphone.
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This is EXACTLY why I want to use it too. I have just got a new mobile phone that does AAC and I want to play the tunes I bought off ITMS but I don't want the hassle of having two sets of music, one DRM free and the other not for my iPod.
Actually, this is how they really work - I know this because I read about it on the back of a cereal packet. First the bluetooth connection links in with your cameraphone. You have to pair the two so that they know each other and will talk to each other, it's like friendly functions in C++. After that, is just a matter of clipping your cameraphone to your jacket, or if you've got one of those new flip phones you can just slide it over your top pocket so the camera points out. Ideally, you'll be on a 3G network, but 2.5G works quite well depending on your location because the camera will take photos every few seconds and relay them back to the Oakly NOC. Now, here I'm afraid it becomes decidedly low-tech: They tried baysian filters, image recognition filters and even that technology out of Cambridge that detects excessive pink in the photos, but nothing worked better than just hiring some minimum-wage dufus off the street to quickly scan the photos. When they spot images that cross the threshold of danger they hit a big red button on their desk. It's one of those emergency stop buttons you see at the conveyor sushi restaurants - you know the type - and whamo - a high-priority paging packet is beamed to the phone, zips through the bluetooth connection an shuts those glasses down! Black. Can't see a thing. And just in time too. H2TG make them out to be some all included device but this is the state of the art folks. If they sell well, next year it'll all be integrated. Such is the life cycle of bluetooth devices.
5 x 3.0 = 15.2 ??? Huh?
6 x 1.9 = 11.6 ??? What?
7 x 1.1 = 7.4 ?????
9 x 0.8 = 7.3 ?
At least they got 1 x 1.7 and 3 x 1.5 right. Sheesh, no wonder projects fail if that's the sort of mathematical skills people have.
On the camera sensitivity front, look for cameraphones with CCD sensors instead of (cheaper) CMOS, e.g. Sharp GX or TM series.
NEC say in the press release that these super computers start at ~$10,000 a month rental. Maybe that's the base line model but isn't $10,000 a month peanuts for a serious spaceship business?
Actually it makes a lot of sense to use VoIP on a mobile if the mobile is dual-mode WiFi and GSM. Why put WiFi on a mobile? Well from a VoIP point of view, WiFi, although it has small cells can actually fill in gaps that GSM doesn't cover very well, especially in-building coverage at 1900MHz (US) either at home or the office. This would essentially extend the carrier's network for free (for them). Although there a lot of technical hurdles to overcome IMO, it looks like Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) is coming to a phone near you.
I don't know about the erruption, but I do care about the shadow of that massive mutant fly I just saw on that web cam picture!!! Argh!
Yep, in my company ( a huge multinational Japanese company) we don't have a marketing group in the US at all. The whole show is run by engineers out of Japan and we have a tough time telling them not to stick features in. That's a cultural thing of course - in Japan even grandmothers can use email on a cellphone.