Want a web cam? Well, have you ot a smartphone? If so, then you've already got a web cam in the making.
A company named Ateksoft has recently released WebCamera Plus v2.0, a downloadable software application that transforms most modern PDAs and smartphones into web cameras, now with audio recording capabilities as well.
Other features incorporated into the version 2.0 update not available in previous versions of the program are wireless microphone capabilities and the ability to share streams simultaneously through several programs.
With WebCamera Plus v2.0 you can record or stream audio/video content to:
Yahoo! Messenger
Skype
Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger
Windows Movie Maker
Virtual Dub
and more!
Whatever your type of connection - 3G, Bluetooth, LAN, GPRS, Wi-Fi, USB, ActiveSync - WebCamera Plus will work for you, and it's compatible with almost every smartphone and PDA currently on the market.
To learn more about Web Camera Plus and Ateksoft's other cool picturesque product CoolCamera, and to download one or both of these killer apps into your PDA or smartphone, visit the Ateksoft site .
According to Information Week, a company named Strategy Analysis has released its predictions for the future of the mobile phone ten years hence. And topping this list, prediction number one is that all mobile phones will be smartphones.
Cell phones already perform much of what PCs just started being able to do ten years ago - from music to video to voice to on-the-go networking, file-sharing, and web-browsing at broadband speeds.
Calling the smartphones of the future "media phones", an associate director commenting for Strategy Analysis cites innovations like a rollable display and transformers as revolutionizing the already revolutionary technology. At the very least, he reports, every mobile phone in every household and workplace in the world will have a wide screen, an expansive keyboard, and a more powerful battery than the marketplace has yet seen.
Already powerful applications like Windows Mobile are infusing today's smartphones with enhanced capabilities comparable to those of their home computer. That kind of customizable integration of the PC programs a user relies on most will certainly only continue (and continue to improve).
Also making headway in its course towards future perfection is the intuitive user interface. Smart phone users can look forward to the amount of buttons they have to press and the number of menus they have to cycle through on the graciously steady decline.
The future of smartphones also sees the imminent demise of the brick-and-mortar wireless store, as something called Mobile Device Management (MDM) - whereby consumers to design, buy, update, upgrade, and repair their own smart phones all over the internet - becomes commonplace.
One feature that's notably absent from the general smartphone market that is predicted to be mainstream by 2018 is the integration of multiradio chipsets in every smartphone. Soon people will be able to listen to PAN, LAN, MAN, and WAN radios over their phones.
To find out more about this vision of our collective technological future, read the full article in InformationWeek.
