Is there a photo uploading Maemo application?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 7:53 PM PST In Ideas and rants
Roland Tanglao just commented on one of my earlier posts saying:
true, but $200 point and shoots don’t have any connectivity and force you to go through a massive chain of pain to get your photos online
with Shozu on your mobile or even Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s gallery to flickr and vox you can get your videos and photos online with a far less nasty chain of pain
This got me thinking … most point and shoots take SD cards.
The Nokia Internet Tablets have SD card readers and they can be paired to your bluetooth phone …
Do you see where I’m going with this?
Wouldn’t it be grand if there was a Nokia Flickr Uploading tool created for the Internet Tablet? Imagine how many photographers or just plain amateurs would jump on to this in a heart beat.
Snap pictures all day long, pop your SD card in to your tablet, see all the images you just took, select which ones you want to go on Flickr, pair your BT phone with the Tablet, hit upload, BOOM!
OR
Nokia could just start using better image processors.
COUGH Canon DIGIC COUGH
I’m not sure this makes sense. So now instead of carrying one device (the N95) and tolerating an extra few seconds of startup time, I’m carrying:
A camera (probably one of those big black ones)
An N800
A bluetooth phone
And taking at least an entire minute to pop the SD out of the camera, put it into the N800, allow it to read it, then pairing the phone, and finally intiating the upload.
OR
I have an N95 (or even my N73), I snap a picture, wait for the little VOX popup, click ok (or even tell the app to automatically upload everything), and then it goes on in the background.
I’ll take the second.
Image Stabilization: Check
Better quality photos: Check
Near instant start up time: Check
Superior macro mode: Check
Tripod mount: Check
There is a long way to go until I can honestly say I’d want to replace a point and shoot with a camera phone. I think we will reach that point in less than 2 years.
BUT: by that time most point and shoots will have wireless usb so instead of having to buy a camera phone you can just have your nokia talk directly to your high end DSLR or point and shoot camera.
You can do direct flickr upload which is what I’ve been doing right from the browser. An app would certainly simplify the process as you could just point to an images directory rather than select each image, but it works. As long as you have an SD card, you are good to go from a non-connected camera.
The Tablet would make a good companion for noting photo missions you might be on as well. Things that can’t be captured on the camera in EXIF… you could tap into notes and reconnect with through flickr or at your desktop when back at home / office.
there is no easy way (yet) to do a data transfer from your phone over bluetooth that I know of on the N800 – think the bluetooth plugin for the N770 might be able to (mine is dead and traded in so I can’t test) but it would be considerably quicker to pop the card out and begin uploading rather than having to transfer the images twice.
BTW — There’s a very cool Flickr app that connects to your flickr account for _viewing_ which I really like called NFlick.
great idea, ok i need an n800
even better if it did it over WiFi automagically when it detected Wifi
I just discovered a way for N770 users to connect and share images from their phones to their tablets over bluetooth … https://garage.maemo.org/projects/recipeviewer/ It’s not something that works on the N800 yet, but certainly seems interesting regardless. It’s probably still quicker though if you ask me to just swap cards — unless of course you want to use the card in your second SD slot for storage.