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Picture blogging from mobile phones

03 July 2004   

 

Cognima Demonstration Videos

It's no secret that the "multimedia messaging service" which was supposed to put money into the empty pockets of starving mobile phone networks has flopped. MMS has missed its chance?

This Cognima technology is getting quite a bit of press. I still haven't got a camera phone, but I thought it worked like this anyway. And what's this about MMS pictures being crap, even with 1 megpixel cameras? Do they mean that if you get a 1 Meg photo sent to your mobile, it'll look crap because the screen's so small? Or, does it get shrunk, or otherwise compressed on sending?

"This video shows the user experience of the Cognima Snap service. The video shows how with Cognima a user can get the photos they take on their phone onto a web-based photo portal with just one key press"
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Right > My 'bits to upload' folder, containing folders that designate the width of thumbnails, usually I pick 200px; and as is, no thumbnailing.

PMN: The results highlight a major issue for network operators - customers are taking photos with their handsets, but they are only sending a handful of them over the network. Operators are becoming increasingly frustrated with the expensive subsidies they are paying for camera-enabled handsets without seeing a corresponding increase in mobile data traffic.

Ah! They get shrunk from 300k to 30k, depending on the phone/service, it seems. And MMS uses GPRS, as it's carrier method anyway. So, one button sending? That's hardly revolutionary. Ideally, I'd like to be able to drop the picture into a folder, like I do with pictures on my PC, and for those to be upstreamed just like Radio Userland does. But somewhere along the way, I'll need to caption and describe the action in the images or pix. bitsToUploadasis

So, GPRS as a carrier is just like a phone line, or leased line. When Cognima say they use GPRS, what do they mean? FTP, HTTP? More GPRS specific protocols are about.

[update—04/07/04:] So, why are mobile phone companies screwing about? They failed with WAP—it was crap, and it looks as though MMS is a mess. Why don't they just open up their GPRS, and have more browsers fitted on phones. Thus, people will have fairly fast web access, and that's all we want. If all mobiles have their own IP address, they can have their own website—right there is a tonne of connectivity.

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