SingTel offers cellphone controlled spycam

Yeah, yeah, the caption reads "watch over your loved ones wirelessly..." but we know by "watch over" they mean spy. With SingTel's dubious intentions aside, the Mobile LIVEcam looks to be a reasonably inexpensive and capable -- albeit optically challenged -- 0.3 megapixel remote camera. For only $240 upfront and about $6 month in service costs you get a 3G SIM card and the camera which can pan, tilt, zoom, and even record video onto a microSD card. If your preferred recording location is a bit dark, the camera features an infrared recording mode to help get the dirtiest of dirt ensure your family's safety. The LIVEcam is controlled via SMS commands or through a web interface -- also accessible by up to 20 others via password control -- on your mobile phone, and with a touted 300 hours standby time, should give you enough time to capture the perfect shots. Yep, anti-privacy never looked so fun.

[rhodesTer @ Oct 19th 2007 3:44AM]

Hmm.. how to plant one in Paris Hilton's house and thus make a fortune.. hmm..

[techthumper @ Oct 19th 2007 3:52AM]

Teleeye.com has been offering this for over a year now. have a look at it if some is very serious. You can use any standard ca,era, dont think HD is supported yet. Cieffe italy also do an encoder which can be controlled from any smartphone or PDA. Nettuno mini or infact any of their encoders can connect to any standard PTZ camera and can be controlled.

[David @ Oct 19th 2007 3:54AM]

we've had these types of things on 3 in the UK for years now.

[Unregistered @ Oct 19th 2007 4:12AM]

This has been offered by Singtel for some time already, definitely not new. Maybe that's why no one thought of submitting it to Engadget.

[bon @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:20AM]

Up until very recently, this very product was also being offered by Smart Communications in the Philippines. I think it was discontinued due to lackluster demand.

[gadgetspotter @ Oct 19th 2007 8:27AM]

this was also offered by Smart Telecommunications in the Philippines for a while now. The last ad I saw also shows a similar astronaut-like helmet

[Khalifa @ Oct 19th 2007 8:34AM]

Thats been in Qatar for years now and that exact model months ago.

[Dustin @ Oct 21st 2007 9:01PM]

Ho hum . . . Philippines' Smart Telecom has exactly the same thing a few years back.