Nextel is enabling customers to store, share and print photos from their multimedia-messaging-enabled Nextel phones and other digital cameras. The capabilities are based on Fujifilm’s Get the Picture service.
In addition to enhancing the Nextel PhotoShare site with greater image management tools, Fujifilm is providing an interactive phone application developed by Summus, Raleigh, N.C., a provider of mobile media applications.
The application enables Nextel users, with multimedia-messaging-enabled phones, to access the more than 3,100 participating digital processing retail stores nationwide - including Ritz Camera, SAM’S CLUB, and Wolf Camera - and obtain prints directly from their phone in as little as an hour.
The Fujifilm Get The Picture service is available to Nextel customers directly via the phone or via the Nextel website.
The new website allows users to upload both cameraphone and digital camera images to online albums, share with friends and family, create slide shows, and print images through retail locations. Users can also access the same album, share and order prints process directly from the eligible phones.
Sprint’s Picture Mail (above) has the option to print the photos stored in online albums directly to a home printer. To use Print at Home, Sprint customers go to their online album, select the images they want to print, and then choose from a variety of image enhancements. There’s no extra charge for printing at home and resolution isn’t restricted.
Other photosharing and photo printing services include;
- Google has a photo sharing service, called Picasa. Google’s Video service lets users worldwide upload and store digital videos at the Google Video service
- Yahoo bought the online photo-sharing site Flickr and recently opened Yahoo 360, a blog that lets you send text and photos from your computer, PDA or mobile phone to your blog.
- OurMedia.org, started by members of the creative and technology communities, let people who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media, store stuff Ourmedia’s servers, free, as long as they’re willing to share their works with a global audience.
According to Analyst Tony Henning, of the Future Image Mobile Imaging Report, “We estimate more than 300 million camera-phones will be sold during 2005, compared to about 85 million digital cameras. Nine out of 10 digital images taken by consumers [this year] will be captured with camera phones.” But bigger pixel elements have a better dynamic range and generate less blooming. Camphones use tiny CMOS chips and crummy lenses. No matter what the resolution, camphone pictures are normally inferior, especially in low light.
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