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To: Kok Chen who wrote (70408)	4/11/2000 6:27:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

I'm not saying it would be instantaneous, it would be in the background. Take some pics. stuff the camera in it's pack, it communicates with your cellphone telling it to send off pics, you walk around some, hear a beep indicating transmitting is done, take some more pics. or Why not have the transmitting directly from the camera? With G3 an all, should be snap. Greg

To: Kok Chen who wrote (70408)	4/11/2000 6:53:00 PM
From: uthabros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Do you know of anyone who might now or in the future have a faster transfer rate and range than Bluetooth, at this point, to make sending pics to your home computer from your digital camera a normal happening? It will eventually happen and I guess 1hr processing will go away! Imagine not having to worry about the wedding pictures not coming out! A photographer's dream come true is right around the corner.What a time we live in! TIA

To: Kok Chen who wrote (70408)	4/12/2000 1:38:00 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I'm not sure that is true. I think that bluetooth can support a basic rate much faster than you quote. It can download an entire jpeg picture in less than a second or two. If you were to dream of photo kiosks where you can access the net thru bluetooth, then one can infact walk up there, enter in the address to send the final picture home, and use bluetooth to transfer the picture to the the kiosk which after printing it will forward it to your home computer for storage. No reason this won;t work and become viable. My local Fuji 1 hour place has this type of kiosk and you take in CD rom, digital camera module, or floppy and transfer it into the system, edit as you like, then request prints from it. No reason you cannot eliminate the wires and transfer it via bluetooth. Also no reason that Fuji cannot provide a link to send it back home. they now allow you to bring in a CD-rom and store it back onto your own picture CD rom. I agree with the congestion on the ISM band. I think that there will be related dedicated bands which are allowed only one protocol in the future but free data transfer, like ISM, but that a comon carrier is used like bluetooth and all the devices must remain compliant and the total network has all the path mitgation logic built in. I can envision this in the automotive 300 Mhz band someday if the car mfgs really want to get all their hands free kits installed in the car stereos when they ship them. (One side note..... the greatest terror in my neighborhood is soccer moms in giant SUVs on cellphones stuck up to their ears. More crashes around our place from this. If the insurance companies wanted to get these lowered in accident rates, they would PAY or require all SUVs to be shipped wiht a handsfree kit day one like bluetooth where the stereo only needs a $5 item and the cellphone needs a $5 item to work....Or at least offer a SUBSTANTIAL discount on handsfree kits in SUVs like they do on alarms...Just MHO)