[jeffmckean]

Close, but the Toshiba/Palm SD Bluetooth card was the first SDIO device. 802.11 and other such items are in the works. The big problem is the lack of consistent SDIO support on devices...such as my favorite toy, the mm02/HTC/XDA/PW10/"Wallaby"/"Spaceneedle" etc. etc. :-(

BTW, I am informed by the Master O' Mayhem that the HTC will "see" a SD Bluetooth card if you insert it (but it's still 'unknown') however, iPAQ 3800s can't even see it at all. Hmmm...perhaps there's some hope.

[jeffmckean]

Close, but the Toshiba/Palm SD Bluetooth card was the first SDIO device. 802.11 and other such items are in the works. The big problem is the lack of consistent SDIO support on devices...such as my favorite toy, the mm02/HTC/XDA/PW10/"Wallaby"/"Spaceneedle" etc. etc. :-(

BTW, I am informed by the Master O' Mayhem that the HTC will "see" a SD Bluetooth card if you insert it (but it's still 'unknown') however, iPAQ 3800s can't even see it at all. Hmmm...perhaps there's some hope.

[Ed Hansberry]

Right - and I was comparing it to all PDA cameras like the CF cameras. Someone pointed out that the Casio did this a year or so ago.

[Paul P]

Originally Posted by jeffmckean

Close, but the Toshiba/Palm SD Bluetooth card was the first SDIO device. 802.11 and other such items are in the works.

Oh man, I can't believe I forgot about the Toshiba BT SD. ops:

Thanks.

[killcat]

Because I'm a Korean, I tried to translate something in order to quench you guys' thirsty. But, there is no proper answer for that. Instead, I wrote an email to overseas@hv.co.kr, who seems like a contact point. I hope he come up here to respond.

Well, they said that they would start to sell from Oct 2002. We will see.

Jisoo.

[Peter Parnes]

I contacted them yesterday and the camera doesn't work in any current PDA. They have tested on some beta version of some Taiwan PDA they say.

Apparently the Toshiba SDIO is only compatible with itself :-/ I.e. Toshiba products.

/P

[coolnicklee]

Hello everyone! I would like to thank "killcat" for leting me know about this thread and hope I can give you some answers.

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1. Specification of the SDcam
Image Sensor :
Type - CMOS
Size - 1/3 "
Maximum resolution - 800x600(SVGA)
Host interface - SD(Secure Digital) I/O type
Minimum illumination - <200 lux
Review frame rate - 15FPS @ 176x 144 (initial test)
Lense :
f-stop - f2.8
FCV - 56'
Macro mode - Yes
Others :
Power consumption - < 120mA @ 3.3V
Focus range - 40cm to infinity
Digital zoom - 2x, 4x
Still image size - 200*150, 400*300, 640*480, 800*600
Video capture - 1768144, 352*288(YUV 4:2:2)
Exposure control - auto
External viewfinder - None
Shutter - Auto shutter / UI shutter button(H/W button mappiing)
Timer - 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
S/W bundle - Photo/Video capture, photo/video album & viewer
O/S - PocketPC 2000 / 2002

2. Availability & Current issues with SD I/O specification
SDcam will go under mass production by the end of this month or early next month. The major problem we are facing right now is the SD IO specificatioin differences between companies. Toshiba uses its own version and HP is going to use their own version. This is the reason why you were not able to use Toshiba BT SD card on other so called "SD IO ready" slot. Our product uses software stack from another company and HP and MS are partner for this program as well for SD IO specification. We hope HP will launch their SD IO patch soon, so that we can start supplying SDcam to the market. We were able to test the cam with PDA developed by another Korean company. It will require a bit of adjustment and tune-ups but we are very happy with the result. FPS is very satisfactory and can be used for wireless video communication using CDMA2000 1x network as well as WLAN.
The fact is that there is only one PDA that can use our SDcam. We will have to contact each PDA developers for DDK(Driver Development Kit) or they may even use the same standard we used to develop this SDcam. We are talking to various PDA developers for this matter but as a small company in Korea, it's not as easy as we thought. -.-;;;

3. i-Kit Multi and other CDMA expansion jacket from HANVIT I.T
HANVIT I.T was known as the first company to develop the CDMA expansion jacket for iPAQ. Unfortunately, due to regulation and laws, it was very difficult for us to place our CDMA jackets to US or other market. Cost of certification and network inter-operability test is too high for CDMA jackets which only has very limited customers. Due to the same reason, i-Kit Multi will be avialble in Korean market only. If Verizon or Sprint decide to help us out in placing our product in US region, you may see our product in your region but I highly don't believe this will happen in near future.

I hope what I have given you some answers. Trust me, we all want to supply our product to US and European market but in reality, it is very tough without support from the big companies. The first thing that has to be loeared off will be the specification standard issues.

Thank you all for your interests in our product!

CoOlNiCk