Bluetooth camera phones before Bluetooth cameras
May 26, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Bluetooth, Camera phones, Consumer Cameras, Mobile Monitor
The recent release of the Kodak V610 will tip the point for the release of Bluetooth enabled cameras. But why only now? It did make sense from the cameraphone point of view, where one could send out pictures to a wireless printer kiosk, laptop or PDA. So it should make sense to have the actual Bluetooth device be a full-featured camera! Some issues come to mind such as demand for these wireless printers. But another factor to be considered would be battery life. Consumer digicams don’t have exceptional battery life and beaming pictures via BT could already eat up more juice.
I was talking to the country manager of Kodak Philippines, Mr. Raymond Albert and he said that in keeping with the “EasyShare” brand, Kodak cameras should be well .. easy to share! Which, as an aside, is why they don’t delve much into the DSLR bracket for cameras. It’s one of those “you push the button, we do the rest” type of thing.
I think that Battery Life is a great worry, in my experience, its always an issue!
Yes, thats been my experience too, battery life is a big problem