Although this project will not be real, just a mockup, I have made a shopping list…
Camera
The most important part of this whole thing is the camera, a camera which is portable yet has good image quality, colour reproduction and battery life is essential, additionally it needs bluetooth or wifi.
Although it would be nice to carry a DSLR around all the time, its not practical because its not portable and requires plugin modules for wifi.Canon has a range of cameras which they all PowerShot, however they do not have a camera with built in Wifi
Nikon on the other hand does not so clearly distinguish their consumer and prosumer equipment, instead opting for the Coolpix brand across their entire range of digital compact cameras. They do however put them into three groups. Performance, Style and Life.
Nikon S50c - £152.96 (best price)
- 7.2MP
- Optical Vibration Reduction
- 3″ display
- 3x Optical Zoom
- 802.11b/g
Nikon S51c – £174.95 (best price)
- 8.1MP
- Optical Vibration Reduction
- 3″ display
- 3x Optical Zoom
- 802.11b/g
My search for a camera with any kind of bluetooth or wifi technology has been severly hindered by the lack of products out there, considering I bought a camera with just this feature last year I am amazed how few products there are out there currently with this facility.
I believe the reason for this technology not being widly available is due to the increasing improvement of cameras built into mobile phones
Nokia N95 – Free on contract
- 5MP
- GPS (With Shozu)
- 2.8″display
- 3G
- 802.11b/g
Laptop/PDA
The laptop is the centeral hub on the backend of the site it must be portable with long life batterys at least 1 usb port the 3G modem, bluetooth for the GPS, WiFi for the camera to transfer the files.
The Sony Vaio VGN-UX1NX is perfect although a little expensive at RRP £999.99
GPS
The GPS needs to have a good battery life, bluetooth and be reasonably accurate.
Garmin are well know and respected and the Garmin GPS10 is cheap and perfect for this project at RRP £140.00
3G
I have gone onto each MSPs (Mobile Service Providers) website and looked at their options for HDSPA (aka 3G internet access) as usual we are getting ripped of in the UK compared with the USA, to demonstrate I have listed a US T-Mobile service plan with the UK price.
T-Mobile USA – Total Internet for Data Cards – $49.99 (£25) (1 mnth)
- $149.99 (£75) modem
- Unlimited Data
Orange – Business Everywhere – £41.63 (24 mnths)
- Free Modem
- 1GB monthly limit
O2 – Web Max – £30 (12 mnths)
- Free Modem
- 3GB monthly limit
Three – Broadband Max – £25 ( 18 mnths)
- Free modem
- 7GB monthly limit
T-Mobile – Web ‘n’ Walk Max – £35 (24 mnths)
- Free modem
- 10GB monthly limit
Vodafone – Mobile Broadband – £25 (18 mnths)
- £49.00 modem
- 500MB 24hr limit
The best plans here are the T-Mobile Web ‘n’ Walk Max plan or the Three Broadband Max plan. They provide a large monthly transfer limit while providing free a Mac and PC compatible modem and low monthly rates.
The worst, which would be shocking except it is Orange is the Orange Business Everywhere plan with only 1GB a month, for over £40 and a 24 month contract (TERRIBLE).
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