Is there a photo uploading Maemo application?

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

• Ricky Cadden

  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.

• Stefan Constantinescu

  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.

• Jonathan Greene

  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.

• Jonathan Greene

  BTW — There’s a very cool Flickr app that connects to your flickr account for _viewing_ which I really like called NFlick.

• Roland Tanglao

  great idea, ok i need an n800

  even better if it did it over WiFi automagically when it detected Wifi