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Turn your S60 device into a Windows XP/Vista wireless webcam

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 2:10 PM

SmartCam turns your S60 device into a Windows webcam

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! 

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Will Park

    I wasn’t aware that there was a Mac OS X solution. Great info! Thanks! :grin:

  • Bazza

    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.

  • ozair khan

    old news

  • JonnyBruha

    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?).

  • Joe

    Holy memory leaks, Batman!

    Anyone else having trouble?

  • touzeen

    neither wwigo or this,SmartCam,supports my IVT Bluetooth Stack :cry:

  • wingspan300

    great thing…tried it with my n70 on second edition s60…..really works, quality is better than expected… thanks for the post

  • Harry

    Had 2 goes getting to work on Nokia E71 – bluetooth error-25
    Needs improving .. GREAT idea but!