Nokia announced an interesting new home security camera that uses any GSM network to send images back to your phone or email if someone trips its motion sensor or if its in-built thermometer exceeds a pre-set threshold. It’s a lot like a 1-megapixel cameraphone without the phone part, although it can even take pictures at night with an infrared sensor. For now, though, it looks as if the Nokia Remote Camera will be Europe only, as its dual-band (and priced only in Euros, at around €450). You can also use an existing Series 60 phone to remotely control the camera via SMS. It’s great idea – a smart way to utilize the existing networks.
Read – Product Page [Nokia]
Update: Irish reader Andrew Betson writes:
Looks like a re-packaging of the Nokia Observation Camera which we have here. While they sound good in practice they aren’t great, it can take a few minutes to get a picture back from them, especialy if you set the quaility and size up. Also the camera quality of the original wasn’t great making it hard to tell what you were looking at unless it was directly in front of it. The interface to the camera was serial or SMS, both needed a bit more work. Maybe the new version is better.
