Monday, May 19, 2008

Webcam using a camera phone

With the latest cell phones technology, the camera phones are becoming a common device. And it can take quite nice photos also. By using the software from motvik (WWIGO), you can turn your camera phone to act like a webcam!

wwigo (pronounced 'vigo') stands for Webcam Wherever I Go. With wwigo, a camera phone can be used as a webcam with PC or Laptop using bluetooth as the transmission medium.

It consists of two software components:
* Mobile component that resides on phone and streams video to PC.
* PC component that receives video.

Features:
* Use Camera Phone as Wireless Webcam
* Record videos with wwigo PC application.
* Use along with skype, yahoo messenger, windows live messenger to do video chat.
* Live Upload with YouTube, grouper to share video.
* Video Quality better or comparable to off shelf webcam*
* Works with popular Bluetooth Stacks on PC
* Supported devices Nokia Series 60 v2.0 and Series 60 v3.0 phones

* Better or comparable depends on the specific phone used.

System Requirements:
* Desktop/Laptop with Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2
* Bluetooth enabled with any one of these bluetooth Stack, IVT BlueSoleil Bluetooth Stack, Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, Widcomm Bluetooth Stack, Toshiba Bluetooth Stack
* Mobile Phone: Nokia Series 60 v2.0 or v3.0 phone.

The process only takes a few minutes.
1. Just download the software from here.
2. Install the download file to your PC.
3. Plug in your Bluetooth device and activate your cell phone Bluetooth
4. Launch a sis file (wwigoMobileApp) in the wwigo desktop menu
5. Install the application in the cell phone

That's it. You can now use your cell phone as your webcam. Enjoy!

Image via Motvik

4 comments:

Pitshu said...

tekmologi semakin lama semakin canggih aja yah ^^

Anonymous said...

Mabok niey bacanya hohohoho ^o^

Anonymous said...

sip nih, kapan-kapan nyoba dyeh

Unknown said...

Boleh jg negh! hm..