Pure player moves: Kodak

Kodak just unveiled its new camera (here in English, there in French), the V610, a compact 6-megapixel camera with a 10x optical zoom. The revolution resides in the fact that, according to Kodak, it is the first Bluetooth enabled camera.

But Kodak is going even further proposing its future around three themes: easy quality, easy sharing, easing archiving.

Quality - By embeding a software that can correct red eyes, povides "anti-blur" and panorama stiching, right into the camera itself, Kodak is making sure that almost anybody can become a pro photographer!
Sharing - The V610 not only has Bluetooth, but also Wi-Fi, which makes it really easy, as long as the user is close to a hotspot, to upload pictures directly to Kodakgalley.com. (no other web site of course!) Kodak also just signed a 10-year partnership with Motorola. One of the result will be to allow the users to send pictures as easily as SMS.
Archiving - Kodak is now working on face and landscape recognition softwares for fast and easy retrieving.

It doesn't mean that Kodakgallery.com (former ofoto) is the new Flickr, or even close. But manufacturers can make the market move faster, with Kodak innovations, and potentially further with mass market GPS camera, Wi-Fi enabled cameras that are open, ...

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