Turning a Nokia into a Quickcam?
September 8, 2005 12:36 AM   Subscribe

Can I use my bluetooth, Series 60 mobile phone with camera and video functions as a video/image/sound device under Windows on my bluetooth-enabled PC?

I have a Nokia 6680. I have a couple of different PCs with bluetooth: a Fujitsu Lifebook and a generic whitebox with a Microsoft dongle. The phone claims to have an "imaging" service when you connect to it with a bluetooth manager. Is there anyway to make it feed video (and audio) through to the PC in a way that standard video capture or chat applications can use?
posted by krisjohn to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)
 
A few years ago, we did a coursework on Bluetooth when the technology was first gaining pace.

I seem to remember it was frequency hopping, ad-hoc system and as a result, I would have thought it would not be suitable for streaming data/constant feed

It is more suited to ocassional transmissions such as key presses, mouse movements.

I could be wrong, its just a guess.
posted by jwhittlestone at 4:16 AM on September 8, 2005


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