Pocket Phojo 2.6

[marlof]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.idruna.com/pocketphojo.html' target='_blank'>http://www.idruna.com/pocketphojo.html</a><br /><br /></div>Pocket Phojo is a great tool, that helps photo journalists caption and crop their pictures and get them from the field back to base, all by using their Pocket PC. This year at <a href="http://www.idruna.com/pocketphojo_wimbledon2004.html">Wimbledon</a>, it proved to be a invaluable tool, since laptops were less useful because of space constraints. A few photo agencies used Pocket Phojo, and have nothing but praise for the combination of battery life in a Pocket PC compared to a laptop, and the usability of Pocket Phojo.<br /><br />And now the application is updated to version 2.6, adding quite an impressive list of features including support for Windows 2003 SE, with support for VGA and landscape orientation. An application like this, which is all about quality images, will benefit a lot from the better picture VGA sized screens will show. Pocket Phojo doesn't come cheap ($489 or $389 with a freelance rebate until Jan 1st), but if this allows you to cut back on time spent on editing and sending your pictures back to base, that price should be very well worth it.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/marlof-july04-pocketphojo26.jpg" />

[dean_shan]

I've been looking at Pocket Phojo for a while now and I still want it. Too expensive for me though, I only do photography as a hobbie.

[Jonathon Watkins]

:jawdrop:

HOW much????? :lol:

Ummm, pass? :wink:

[Gerard]

Photogenics is rather long in the tooth by now, not having been updated (still lots of pesky little bugs) in something like two years. But it's got a lot of functions similar to Phojo, and if you either don't need the integrated wireless stuff and other photojournalist-related features, Photogenics will work for a lot of photo re-working. Pocket Artist from Conduits is around the same price and delivers better stability and a lot of shared functionality. Add in a wireless card and an email application and FTP client and I don't really understand why most people would want Phojo. Of course, it's not aimed at most people.

[marlof]

Add in a wireless card and an email application and FTP client and I don't really understand why most people would want Phojo. Of course, it's not aimed at most people.

Exactly. This is not aimed at mere consumers like us. Having all the functionality in one application can sure help you with the work process, and save invaluable time, which is important to some. I guess that's why this is Pocket PhotoJournalist. This is aimed at people who want to send 50 to 100 images to their news desk, and for whom cropping and captioning is very important, next to sending the images.

One of the cool quotes on the Phojo site "When Italy's Minister of Defence challenged Michael Schumacher to race an F16, the clear winner was Daniele Venturelli and his Pocket Phojo system. The race began at 10:26am, this photo was on newspapers web sites by 10:28am."

[T-Will]

Why not just use SPB Imageer which includes the ability to crop and to effortlessly upload photos to the web?

[marlof]

Why not just use SPB Imageer which includes the ability to crop and to effortlessly upload photos to the web?

Although I'm a huge Imageer fan, I still see room for Phojo. Because publishing to a public web site, and sending the pictures to the news desk is something completely different. The latter is not something Imageer can do. Let alone the extra functionality in Phojo for naming and captioning your pictures in the field. Among many other things.