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Sony's upcoming product Wireless Camera
:: 10 March, 2007
Wire by wire, electronic products are losing their tethers. Sony cut another cord Thursday with its announcement of its first wireless digital camera.
The DSC-G1, a 6-megapixel digital camera in the Cyber-shot line, can send photos without wires to any other camera or PC that is enabled with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard, which works with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g networking.
The G1, announced at the Photo Marketing Association show in Las Vegas, can send photos in real time to up to four other DLNA-capable cameras simultaneously, which means that at your next office party, that scene at the water cooler might very well be traveling around your office more quickly than e-mail.
With 2 GB of internal memory and the ability to store up to 7,500 VGA-quality or 600 6-megapixel photos, the G1 -- even without an extra media card -- might be the source of many incriminating images.
Camera Phones, Wireless Cameras
Putting wireless into a digital camera makes sense, said Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis. "There's a lot of things you can do," he said. "Post to a weblog, share at a family event, easily transfer to a PC for storage and editing."
He did say that the DLNA standard, while gaining ground, has not yet reached critical mass, but noted that adding some form of connectivity to cameras makes sense. "Device vendors need a new reason for you to upgrade," he said. "Just adding megapixels in a camera doesn't do it anymore."
In fact, he noted, the wireless camera and the camera phone might be on track to merge. "There's already a 3-megapixel phone in Europe," he said, "which is selling extraordinarily well. In fact, it's also a Cyber-shot, released by Sony Ericsson."
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The 3.5-inch LCD of the G1 provides a resolution up to 921,000 pixels. Sony said...
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