Virtual keyboards aren’t exactly a new concept, but Nokia’s patent describes a mobile phone with integrated equipment, which allows a virtual keyboard to be set up more rapidly. The patent, titled, “Mobile device with virtual keyboard,” does away with the need for a separate projector entirely, by instead using the onboard camera and optical sensors that are already present in typical mobiles. There is a drawback, however.
It’s annoying that so many good (or terrible) photos are stuck inside your cameraphone. Belkin’s F8T012 Bluetooth adaptor gives your computer Bluetooth 2.0 for all your diabolical purposes, but it also specifically lets you wirelessly drop photos from mobiles, for printing, storing or uploading. This can often be a pain, especially when you’re dealing with a phone from a “walled-garden” carrier. The good news is, a cursory glance of the phone compatibility list showed a lot of phones you might not expect, like the LG VX8700. And it gives you 100-metre range for $58, the same cost as Belkin’s non-Kodak Bluetooth adapter. [Belkin]
Motorola has been on a mobile kick as of late and for their next project, they’ve teamed up with Kodak to use their CMOS sensor in a Motorola-Kodak cameraphone that’ll sport a 5-megapixel camera.
Not many details are known about the phone, although we do know it’ll debut just in time for the holidays. Only time will tell if it’ll be able to take on Sony Ericsson and its Cybershots (which happen to be my favourite cameraphones). – Louis Ramirez
Kodak’s CMOS Camera Will Be 5-megapixel [News.com]
