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WiFi Camera?

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Ok, I am looking for a camera, point and shoot style that has the ability to upload to a cloud or personal computer/server on it's own wirelessly, would rather that be in the form of a WiFi connection.

Use is because the camera will be in constant use by a 3rd party that will be taking photos of items as they leave the shop, which are needed by myself and others, having to get the camera and download/upload/send every time something leaves is needless to say a pain in the ass. Is there anything out there that can do this? We have WiFi coverage pretty much throughout the whole facility, and we also have dedicated servers on site along with networked drives everyone can access. While I would have to get with IT to have something installed/run on it, I don't think they would have much issue with it.
 
Was looking and it seems the Samsung WB2200F might fit the bill with some of its sharing ability, anyone have experience with this?
 
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If you're not happy with wifi camera options, take a look at the wifi sd cards, too; although it looks like maybe they're not as capable of automatically transferring to servers anymore -- it seems like they're more interested in transferring to your phone instead -- ugh.
 
Why not just use a tablet with a camera? Then you can upload/send the images where ever you want. Additionally, most cameras can be controlled by a tablet/phone over USB. Images could be stored on the tablet/phone and backed up/transferred to where ever you want.

I control my old Canon T2i DSLR w/ 10.1" Tablet over USB. Tablet has WiFi and I can send/upload the images to anywhere immediately after the picture it taken.
 
Skillz said:
Why not just use a tablet with a camera? Then you can upload/send the images where ever you want. Additionally, most cameras can be controlled by a tablet/phone over USB. Images could be stored on the tablet/phone and backed up/transferred to where ever you want.

I control my old Canon T2i DSLR w/ 10.1" Tablet over USB. Tablet has WiFi and I can send/upload the images to anywhere immediately after the picture it taken.
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Needs to be simple and more portable.
 
A table or android phone seems pretty portable. We use a tablet at work to take pictures of our work for approval or design changes.
 
Skillz said:
A table or android phone seems pretty portable. We use a tablet at work to take pictures of our work for approval or design changes.
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I don't see anything like that taking good photos at all, no where close to the camera linked above, and probably costing more money, and still without a built in app to upload to a networked server. Sooo....
 
Skillz said:
A table or android phone seems pretty portable. We use a tablet at work to take pictures of our work for approval or design changes.
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Looked around for a tablet, can say without a doubt all are shit as cameras go, even my iPad isn't that great and no flash, even highend tablets seem to max at 8MP and the quality is quite bad, with a good bit of noise and poor low light performance. Phones were more or less the same thing, iPhone and high(er) end android have cameras that are not to bad 10MP+ and much better image quality and far less noise and most have flash but also two times the price of the camera. Then I remember, Amazon Fire phone. Who cares if the GUI is a bit annoying and might not be the best phone out there, it does however have a good image quality 13MP camera with the bonus that it has built in unlimited Amazon cloud storage for photos, along with access to all other apps like dropbox or the like for photos if needed. Another plus is you can find them for $120 or less brand new and 150-160 all day long, come to think of it, I might get one for a permanent dash cam/GPS for my cars, hard to beat for the price. Might even make a nice digital dash for my track car, as you can flash pure android to them and run any number of the OBDII digital dashes.
 
BlueFireIce said:
Looked around for a tablet, can say without a doubt all are shit as cameras go, even my iPad isn't that great and no flash, even highend tablets seem to max at 8MP and the quality is quite bad, with a good bit of noise and poor low light performance. Phones were more or less the same thing, iPhone and high(er) end android have cameras that are not to bad 10MP+ and much better image quality and far less noise and most have flash but also two times the price of the camera. Then I remember, Amazon Fire phone. Who cares if the GUI is a bit annoying and might not be the best phone out there, it does however have a good image quality 13MP camera with the bonus that it has built in unlimited Amazon cloud storage for photos, along with access to all other apps like dropbox or the like for photos if needed. Another plus is you can find them for $120 or less brand new and 150-160 all day long, come to think of it, I might get one for a permanent dash cam/GPS for my cars, hard to beat for the price. Might even make a nice digital dash for my track car, as you can flash pure android to them and run any number of the OBDII digital dashes.
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They finally have custom ROMs for the Fire Phone? Last I checked they were still locked down.

I might pick one up if that's the case.
 
BigJayDogg3 said:
They finally have custom ROMs for the Fire Phone? Last I checked they were still locked down.

I might pick one up if that's the case.
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Pretty sure the bootloader is locked somewhat still, but there is a CM ROM people use, not sure how good it is for phone use, I just need it for apps, but it seems I can install the play store without the ROM anyway for use as a digital dash.
 
After having the phone, it's not to shabby for the price, photos are quite good, and far better than anything else in the price range, battery seems good. The stock GUI is kinda annoying, but livable, after a few days I have gotten used to most of the actions etc, downside being more limited on apps and many of the free apps from the Play store cost in the Amazon store....However it took all of 3mins to install the play store, no rooting etc needed, just DL and install the files on the phone, not even a computer is needed and poof, all my favorite Play apps, everything seems to work just fine, after all it is Android under the hood. Then I picked up a custom launcher to get rid of the annoying carousel Amazon uses on everything and it's back to feeling like a themed Android phone. Battery life seems to be affected by the dynamic perspective far more than I thought it would, but I guess it runs all 4 (maybe 5?) cameras all the time when the phone is active, turning this off netted me significantly longer battery life which already seemed quite good
 
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