Turn your S60 device into a Windows XP/Vista wireless webcam
By Will Park on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 2:10 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Symbian
Talk about a trick piece of software! SmartCam is an open-source (from SourceForge) application for the Windows-set (Windows XP or Windows Vista) that basically turns your S60 phone’s camera into a web-cam. All of you with an S60 device and a Windows machine can forgo that webcam purchase, it turns out you already have on in your pocket! It’s too bad there isn’t a Mac version of this software (yes, Macs get built-in iSight webcams, but it would still be cool to use our S60 phone as a webcam).
Getting your mobile phone setup as your webcam is as simple as installing the SmartCam application onto your Windows machine, and then installing the mobile client on your S60 device (don’t forget to read the readme file).
But, there is one caveat. Your Windows machine (laptop or desktop) needs to have Bluetooth connectivity to link up with your S60 phone. We actually think that makes SmartCam all that much better - not only is your S60 phone a webcam, it’s a wireless webcam.
[Via: Lifehacker]
Thanks, Andy!
Actually, Windows users are late to the party on this one. Movino has been available for the Mac for a while, and is also open source. Try it out at http://www.movino.org/
I wasn’t aware that there was a Mac OS X solution. Great info! Thanks!
actually, Wwigo has been out for a long time and its a freeware that supports bluetooth s60 webcam action for PC.
There is also a shareware app that does both wired and bluetooth webcam with s60 for a few years now.
old news
See how many steps back the iPhone has taken us? All the IntoMobile writers (minus one) have been so enamored with it that they forgot all about the advanced functionality of S60 (if they even knew about it to begin with?).
Holy memory leaks, Batman!
Anyone else having trouble?
neither wwigo or this,SmartCam,supports my IVT Bluetooth Stack
Linux version now available, works with Kopete, aMsn, Ekiga, gstreamer.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartcam
Enjoy
great thing…tried it with my n70 on second edition s60…..really works, quality is better than expected… thanks for the post
Had 2 goes getting to work on Nokia E71 - bluetooth error-25
Needs improving .. GREAT idea but!