Wisair and Nokia showing off WUSB in phones at 3GSM

Despite the WiFi, IR, Bluetooth and USB connections we already have to our phone, not to mention 3G or 2.5G in-phone connections to the internets, it always seems a bit of a chore to pull the pictures off our camphone. So what do we need? Another connection of course! Wisair and Nokia are teaming up to show off WUSB at 3GSM, with a Wisair 542 chip embedded in a Nokia Nseries cameraphone to send images and video to a laptop. We're guessing Nokia isn't about to get into the business of retrofitting its phones with new radios, so perhaps Nokia is planning some new models before too long with the chip built-in, or perhaps Wisair will at least have some ready-to-go products of the WUSB variety -- we're getting a little tired of all this talk and no action.

[Via Everything USB]

[Richard @ Feb 10th 2007 8:48PM]

Yay, one more technology to be implemented in a half assed way and then dropped once people begin to implement it....

[Mitch @ Feb 10th 2007 9:01PM]

Isn't there already a standard means of connecting your phone to a computer (bluetooth) ??

[nikster @ Feb 11th 2007 2:11PM]

I use Bluetooth all the time but quite frankly, it's terrible for Joe Average user. First you have to make your stuff "detectable", then set up a device in an elaborate process, then enter key codes on both machines, then authorize the newly paired device so you don't get prompted all the time.
Then, without software like WidComm, it's very hard to do anything.
And finally, devices tend to forget they are paired and you have to do the whole thing all over again. Oh, and it's dead-slow.
Other than that Bluetooth is great ;)