April 30, 2004
Cameraphone makers address user issues
At the Cameraphone Summit 2004 in Maui, a handful of vendors banned together to address the interoperability glitches between cameraphones and printers, reports Commsdesign.
Other issues were raised by two keynoters at the show (Juha Putkirant-Nokia and Gregg Patterson-Hewlett Packard):
Excerpts:
-- Cameraphone pictures take too long and costs too much to upload and they are too difficult to print and store. (Putkiranta)
-- "Cameraphones are good enough for mass adoption but there are some real performance gaps. "Image quality is not there and we have problems with different light conditions that are easily handled by digital still cameras. And the capture and manipulation speed just are not there today". (Putkiranta)
-- The bottlenecks in the networking infrastructure loom among the largest issues. Today's networks can take 15 to 30 minutes to upload an image from 1 Megapixel cameras at a cost ranging from $6 to $60 or more for roaming users. The nets may not be able to keep up with phone makers who have road maps for shipping 2 Mpixel phones early next year and 5 Mpixel versions after them. (Putkiranta)
-- As many as 312 billion digital images a year will be captured, stored or shared in 2008. (Patterson)
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