Another company exhibiting at last week’s Nokia World conference was Realeyes3D, which makes software for cameraphones. The company doesn’t sell it – instead, its business model is based on persuading handset makers to preload the software on their new phones.
It’s pretty nifty though. Among the apps on display was Phone2Fun Digitiser, which lets you scribble messages or drawings on paper, then take a picture of them with your cameraphone, and send a cleaned-up version of the image as an MMS message or email to friends.
"We’ve integrated it into the messaging clients of the new Nokia Series 60 3rd edition phones," says Katia Hilal, business development and alliance manager at Realeyes3D. "When you click on New Message, you get the option of sending a handwritten message. And besides writing, it’s great for things like drawings or even maps, if you’re sending someone directions."
Source: Tech Digest
Just polishing off some more interviews from last week’s Nokia World conference today – there was so much happening at the show, I’m still working through transcripts. Let’s kick off with Mobile Entertainment Factory, a German firm that’s using Adobe’s Flash Lite technology to create animated wallpapers and games/applications for phones.
Dr Hubert Weid, the company’s CEO, ran me through a demo of the Flash wallpapers (pictured), which are cleverer than just having neat visual animations. One example was a wallpaper that actively links to your phone’s time setting, and displays it as an analogue on-screen clock – good for those of us who’ve stopped wearing watches in favour of using our phones.
Source: Tech Digest
Check out both of these posts if you’re interested in what developers showed off at Nokia World. The flash backgrounds … gimmicky for me at best. The document image scanner is useful, but then again one would need a fairly high quality camera in order to get good results I would assume. The guy doing the demo was using a Nokia N93 which is pretty much the top of the line until they come out with a 5 megapixel version of that sucker.