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Using your Nokia as a WebCam!

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

In this tip, I’ll teach you how to use your mobile phone as a webcam. Now you don’t have to stick in front of your webcam, you can move alongwith your phone’s camera, as this service uses bluetooth for transmitting.

I know this is quite old, but I found countless number of people asking me if they could use their phone as a webcam. This service was told to me by a good friend of mine Ahmedij.

So here it is:

This service is known as WWIGO (pronounced ‘vigo’) stands for Webcam Wherever I Go. With wwigo, a camera phone can be used as a webcam with PC or Laptop using bluetooth as the transmission medium.

It consists of two software components.

  • mobile component that resides on phone and streams video to PC.
  • PC component that recieves video.

Features:

  • Use Camera Phone as Wirless Webcam
  • Record videos with wwigo PC application.
  • Use along with skype yahoo messenger windows live messenger to do video chat.
  • Live Upload with YouTube grouper to share video.
  • Video Quality better or comparable to off shelf webcam*
  • Works with popular Bluetooth Stacks on PC

This service can be used with the following mobile phones:

Image of phone Nokia N95

You can Download WWIGO here. Or you can checkout their official website for more info.