More Details on the Pocket edge

Originally Posted by sarah11918

for a video chat app.

Certainly makes perfect sense. Was it just me, or wasn't the eDGe being advertised for video taping lectures, though? Perhaps they meant just audio recording...

Originally Posted by borisb

Certainly makes perfect sense. Was it just me, or wasn't the eDGe being advertised for video taping lectures, though? Perhaps they meant just audio recording...

No, you are right. They showed a student using it to video a lecture. Having it there, on the LCD only makes sense for video chats if there is a video chat client available.

Hope camera is better in the pocket not such useless 1 penny device as in the normal edge.

If I were video taping a lecture with the camera, then I'd want to have the e-ink side facing ME so I could take notes. So, for that purpose, I'd want the camera over the LCD side. Or am I missing something?

True, but you'd have no idea if you were centered on the prof (or the particular blackboard on which he was writing). lol, now with the camera on the eInk side, you could monitor the recording perfectly, but not be able to take any notes (other than by typing). Perhaps this is where an small external keyboard would be handy

I think ideally a usb camera would actually work the best, no?

A USB Cam is a cool idea, but would the edge a) have enough power to run one and b) what about driver support for an external camera on Android?

The camera objective could have been on the back side, like a cell phone camera

Originally Posted by borisb

True, but you'd have no idea if you were centered on the prof (or the particular blackboard on which he was writing). lol, now with the camera on the eInk side, you could monitor the recording perfectly, but not be able to take any notes (other than by typing). Perhaps this is where an small external keyboard would be handy

I think ideally a usb camera would actually work the best, no?

A USB camera....in a High School/College/University CLASSROOM??????! That's just screaming "Youtube" and horrible home videos of bored students with short attention spans.

With the camera on the device, people won't know that you are recording anything unless you show them while you're filming it to keep it conspicuous and maintain your privacy.

do not want to go into legalities of filming in classrooms anyway. what I am asking is a decent camera not a 50 cents useless device like in the normal edge.
I will bet 100 bucks the the camera in the pocket edge will be pretty useless like the one in my big edge.

Originally Posted by MichaelV

do not want to go into legalities of filming in classrooms anyway. what I am asking is a decent camera not a 50 cents useless device like in the normal edge.
I will bet 100 bucks the the camera in the pocket edge will be pretty useless like the one in my big edge.

I think the software for the camera could stand improvement, at the very least the ability to work with some of the excellent camera enhancement apps available. I think you would see noticeable improvement in the pictures. I know I did after adding that type of app to my G1.