Thursday, October 25, 2001

So we were all sitting around thinking about how to best put multimedia on a handset...but cheap. i-mode's wcdma launch has shown that it is possible to do this with a $500 phone that has a 100 page manual and drains the battery 4X faster than normal. Great. Costs more to use per/minute too! bonus! but not to be discouraged, I believe this image transfer - if only a single image - is where it's at. Fuji announced that they can do this with bluetooth. This will solve so much. Last night some folks were laughing at the idea that ANYBODY would ever want to do that. I discount their pessimism based on their average age, but they had a point that it will take longer than most people, including me, think. They were all smart, none of them had ever managed to download a digital image to their computer yet...maybe someday their kids will have to do it for them.