March 14, 2003
Bells and Whistles for Picture Phones
According to Mark Ward, reporting from CeBIT for the BBC, we will soon be able to do much more with picture phones than just take pictures. Several companies have unveiled new gadgets and services, such as sending picture postcards and printing from a cell phone (blogged about earlier).
Of note, Nokia' SU-2 Image Viewer which can show phone images on a TV set or computer monitor wirelessly, thanks to Bluetooth technology.
Panasonic will offer a service that lets people turn an image into a personalised fascia for its G60 phone.
Some of the printers shown will allow users to crop and edit pictures before printing.
Siemens is working on a service whereby sending in snap shots via the Web or by cell phone, will come back as high quality copies, to print out as photographs or put on mugs, t-shirts and calendars.
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