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Panasonic and T-Mobile Announce Wi-Fi Digital Camera

by Ian Rowan on January 14, 2008 at 08:58 AM

Panasonic Lumix WiFiHot on the heels of the announcement that the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi enabled SD memory card won the Yahoo! Last Gadget Standing Award at CES comes the joint announcement that T-Mobile and Panasonic will release a Wi-Fi enabled digital camera that can directly upload to Google's Picasa Web Albums.

The new wireless Panasonic LUMIX will allow you to wirelessly transmit digital photos from the camera to your personal computer as well as directly to a file sharing website by utilizing any open Wi-Fi hotspot or T-Mobile hotspot (at 8,500 locations, or free for the first 12 months) to upload your photos directly to your web album. This is a similar setup to what Kodak has had with its EasyShare cameras for a few years.

By utilizing Google open APIs(Application Programming Interfaces) the LUMIX will be able to upload to specific Picasa Web galleries depending on user settings and can then send the gallery URL to friends immediately via cellular text messaging or e-mail. With a little bit of time and perhaps some hacker help we'll see the same sort of ease-of-use for uploading to Flickr, Facebook, and other photo and social networking sites in the coming months.

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