T-Mobile announces the Cameo

By on Oct 7, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Opinions October 7, 2008

T-Mobile is launching a new device and service that could be hit or miss (we’re going with miss). It’s not a phone or phone accessory of any kind, but it’s a digital picture frame that will have a SIM card and phone number. Kinda stupid, right? The reason it’s not the brightest idea is because it costs $10 a month for the service – not to mention the cost of the device itself which is at a pricey $100. The picture frame will have a SIM card and its own number and the pictures will arrive via MMS. So, if you’re shooting it with your lowly 2.0 megapixel camera, don’t expect stunning quality. Calling it the “Cameo” (for its assumed brief appearance on the market), a consumer will be able to take a picture from their phone, send it to the picture frame, and it will pop up on display. While it’s a novel idea, there’s no reason they couldn’t have made it a Wi-Fi capable device and just send pictures via email or Internet. Here are some specs for this new… whatever you wanna call it:

  • High-resolution digital TFT screen with 720 x 480 pixels
  • Displays photos with 262 144 colours
  • Display dimensions: 130 x 87 mm
  • Connections:
    • GPRS Class 10 (dual band) for transferring photos from a phone
    • Mini USB port (for transferring photos from a PC)
    • SD/MMC card slot (for transferring photos directly from a camera)
  • Receives MMS messages
  • Photo format: JPEG and GIF
  • Stores up to 500 photos
  • Automatically adapts the picture size to the screen
  • Brightness adjustment
  • Automatically rotates the picture (portrait/landscape)
  • Adjustable backlight (manual or automatic)
  • External frame with an interchangeable leather surroundMemory cards accepted:
    SD, miniSD (with adapter), microSD (with adapter), MMC, RS-MMC (with adapter), MMC plus, MMC mobile (with adapter), MMC micro (with adapter), SDHC, mini SDHC (with adapter).

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  • http://www.crackberry.com A.F.

    Good idea…little more thought needs to be put into though. Possible offer this as a package with the purchase of a phone? Hey something that might work..

  • mr.gadget

    good idea, it should be bundled with the t919 or the moto zine seeing that they are both high end camera phones

  • http://www.bgr.com Marc Flores

    That is a really good idea. They should throw it in as a bundle or incentive maybe to sell some of their better camera phones. At $100, it’s gonna be pretty hard to push this thing all by its lonesome self… on top of the $10/month charge for network usage.

  • john

    While I’m not sure if this is a winner, I have to applaud TMobile for trying to add real value to its brand and offerings by coming up with stuff that no other wireless carrier is. TMobile@home and this picture frame are examples of how they’re trying to push the envelope instead of just selling the same service over and over again.

  • samie

    This is by far the worst idea. I worstidea. .
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  • Danielle

    Ok so I am on the phone with T-mobile right now for problems with my BB 8100, ok software not software whatever. So they let me talk to RIM, and I don’t know about talking to them because they are morons. Anyways no one at T-Mobile has heard of this, but then again they haven’t heard of the new BB flip phone either. Their people really should check out some of these sites.

  • Danielle

    Have you ever checked the prices of these frames at say Walmart they are expensive for the ones you have to hook up to the computer, you are looking at upwards of 100$ without the convience of just MMSing the pics right over.

  • Jdslim

    To Danielle.

    I have to disagree with your statement. Your comment about no one knowing anything about the flip phone is false, most front line employes knew about the device but as a tmobile employee they could give that information to our customer until it was anounce by T-mobile.

    As a rep at the call center I can tell you that most phone calls are being recorded. We can’t simple tell our customers what we might of heared about upcoming features or devices until they are announced by T-mobile. The wireless industry is very competitive and Tmobile tries to keep information about our future plans away from the compition as long as the can. Myfavs is a great example I knew of tmobile working on myfavs a good 8 to 10 months before alltell came out with my circle. Most likly Altell got their ideal after speaking to a Tmobile rep who mention what they heared about Myfavs.

    When it comes to upcoming devices and release dates they are not always writen in stone. Take the ATT bold release date for example. Tmobile wants to limit the amount of false information being told to their customers. There is so many rumers floating on the net about incoming devices as is. Tmobile is going to try to avoid adding more to the madness.

    You are right about the Cameo I havnt heared anything about it from Tmobile yet but in T-mobiles defence its a Tmbile European device and I work for Tmobile USA and if you spoked to a Tmobile USA CSR they wouldn’t know about this device either.

  • Techgirl

    Amazing. Cannot wait. So many family memebers far away that will love pictures of my child this way.

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