More 1 megapixel + digital camera phones coming (in Japan.) This is my latest fetish. I cannot wait for these to hit here in the U.S.

Here's what I'd do about the bandwidth problem. First, the phone has to have a lot of memory. At least a gigabyte. And no SD or memorystick please. Either give us a real hard drive (a la the iPod) or a CF type II slot (for a microdrive, or a just a big CF card.)

Store the pictures locally at highest resolution. At the same time, scale down a copy to a user preset pixel size / resolution (I'd set my camera to scale pictures down to 500 pixels wide at around 70% jpeg quality) and send the reduced photo wireless to either a user specified server, or to a teleco server. Use open standards for these transactions (FTP I guess. Or Webdav?) Possibly have a second size/resolution preset at an even greater reduction for use when sending to someone else's phone.

The phone should also have bluetooth so that the full resolution pictures will be synced with your main computer whenever you are within range (which could be almost all the time if you have a laptop.)
- jim 4-09-2003 6:26 pm




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