New settings to send emails using Phojo

Are you using Pocket Phojo to send photos via email? If so you will need to update your settings as we have upgraded our server.

First, you will need to upgrade to version 6 if you are running an older version of Phojo.

Then:
Tap File->Prefs->Configure Remote Editing
Tap Enable Remote Editing
Enter your name in the “Your Name” field
Enter your email in the “Email” field
Leave the other settings as they are.
Tap OK

After a brief pause, Phojo will connect to the usa1.remoteedit.net IRES server. If you send an email, Phojo will now send the email via IRES, then the IRES server will actually send the email. This should result in a major speed up when transmitting via 3G.

Video of IRES Transmitting 2.8X Faster than FTP

IRES can do a lot of things, but one of the least appreciated features is just how fast it can actually send files compared to FTP. By using finely tuned advanced networking techniques especially designed for mobile phone networks, IRES can achieve speeds almost triple what you would normally get. Seeing is believing, so I made a video of Phojo running on the AT&T Touch Pro, the Verizon Touch Pro II, and the Sprint Touch Pro II. On AT&T IRES achieves about double the speed vs FTP, on Sprint a little bit less than double, and on Verizon, almost triple the speed! The different between the slowest case, sending a file via FTP on AT&T, and the fastest case, sending a file via IRES on Verizon, is huge, 12KB/s vs 70KB/s. If you watch the last section closely you can see the Verizon phone sends almost a megabyte before the AT&T phone can even get up to full speed. Now, your results may and will vary due to how close you are to the cell towers, and in AT&T's case, how many people are using their iPhones at any given moment. In my experience, the Verizon results are pretty typical. AT&T is a lot more variable, enough to cause a lot of frustration. I can't comment on Sprint as I haven't used it as much as the others, but I did expect it to be faster.

New Features for Pocket Phojo 6.0

The new page for Phojo 6.0 can be found here. Below is a list of all the new features since 5.0:

Eye-Fi Pro Support
• Built-in Eye-Fi Pro support adds WiFi transmission capabilities to almost any camera for only $149
• Pocket Phojo automatically creates the ad-hoc WiFi network, and allows receiving images from the camera via WiFi while simultaneously transmitting via email or FTP on the phone’s 3G connection
• Choose between transmitting all images or only those selected in-camera using the protect button
• Received images can be automatically renamed, have IPTC captions added, and be resized and recompressed before being transmitted

Idruna Remote Editing System 2.0 Support
• IRES allows an editor to see what her photographers are shooting in real time, from anywhere in the world
• IRES first transmits thumbnails to the editor, which takes very little bandwidth, and can be done in real time
• When the editor clicks on a thumbnail, a small preview is transmitted.
• Only the images the editor selects as the best are transmitted at full size
• Supports ratings stars, editing captions remotely from the browser, voice tags, and RAW files
• Team members can form groups to display all photos from an job in the same browser window
• Supports end to end high grade encryption
• Bandwidth optimization transmits images twice as fast as sending via FTP
• See http://idruna.com/remoteediting.html for full details

User Interface Improvements
• Shiny new user interface
• Improved Image Browser – now displays more thumbnails at once
• Clicking on an entry in the Transmission Queue now displays a thumbnail
• Added Delete option to profile selectors
• Changed Rename Prefix to Template, added ability to rename according to file date etc
• Raw images are now automatically rotated

New Camera Support
• Custom USB driver adds support for connecting to the Nikon D3 and D300, with the screen remaining on, something Nikon’s own software can’t do!
• D3/D300 owners can now select files to transmit in-camera using the protect button
• USB driver now supports having both slots filled at the same time
• Added FujuFilm S5 Pro USB Driver Support
• The built-in FTP server now supports the Canon WFT-E3
• WiFi is set back to using DHCP on exit

Military Features
• Added automatic VIRIN support when Military Captions enabled
• Added Encrypted Email Support (SMIME) for sending to DoD recipients

Transmission Improvements
• Send via Email now supports routing images through the IRES server. As well as being more than twice as fast, this also bypasses problems on phone networks that block SMTP
• Send via Email now supports BCC
• Pocket Phojo now supports up to 256bit AES Encryption
• Added Secure FTP (SFTP) Support, with password or certificate based authentication
• Added FTPS Support
• Added SCP Support
• Now warns when storage is low
• Auto-Retry failed transmissions
• New optimizations allow transmitting thousands of images without slowdowns or running out of memory

Idruna to power the new Wi-Pics Mobile

Idruna and United Imaging Solutions LLC have teamed up to produce the next generation Wi-Pics Mobile unit. The software is a special custom version of Pocket Phojo designed to meet the needs of event photographers, with built-in work flow actions to automatically download images from the camera as you shoot, and associate information from a barcode scanner or user edited fields into the exif headers or file names. The hardware is the Socket SoMo 650, with a custom bracket and USB host cable for convenient mounting to the camera. The solution will be available from UIS in January starting at $1299.

2008 Cox Mobile Technology Summit – September 4th, Atlanta, GA

Verizon has invited me to give a presentation titled “Real Time Photo and Video Transmission using DSLRs and Verizon Wireless Hand-held Devices” at the 2008 Cox Mobile Technology Summit, on September 4th, at Cox’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Please feel free to email me if you will be attending the conference or would like more information.

See IRES in action at NAB

I`ll be showcasing IRES running on the OQO model 02 on Verizon’s booth (C2146) at NAB April 16th and 17th, if you`ll be attending be sure to stop by so you can see the latest updates in action!

Toshiba G900: New Top Phone for Phojo

It’s been a frustrating year for new Windows Mobile hardware. The HTC Advantage looked so good on paper, then let us down with broken USB host support. The Cowon Q5W took forever to launch, and then they left out HSDPA and all the Bluetooth profiles except headphones, so you can only connect via WiFi. This leaves the Toshiba G900 as my new top recommendation. It has almost every single feature you could ask for in a phone, an 800×480 VGA screen, HSDPA for the fastest transmission speed available, WiFi, Bluetooth, and of most interest, one of the best USB Host support implementations I’ve seen. Not only is the Mini B->A adapter included in the box, unlike the Loox T830, you don’t need to change any software settings before plugging in the camera, it just works.

The New Loox T830: Most powerful Pocket PC Phone for Phojo

I`d like to introduce the new T830 from Fujitsu Siemens, the most powerful phone on the market for running Pocket Phojo. Like a few other high end Pocket PC Phones, the T830 has 3G (UMTS) support, WiFi, Bluetooth, and an SD Card slot, but the unique feature that makes it perfect for Phojo is the USB Host support.

USB Host support means you now plug your mobile phone directly into your camera. This is the biggest leap forward in high speed news gathering since the first version of Pocket Phojo was released back in 2002. In the simplest scenario, you can use it in place of the Canon WFT-E1 WiFi transmitter to transmit all of your images as you take them. Even WiFi networks can’t transmit as fast as a photographer can shoot though, so Pocket Phojo solves the backlog problem by using the Protect function on the camera to rapidly select which images are to be transmitted. In addition, you can configure Phojo to recompress your images for faster transmission, add a caption, or send via email if the recipient does not have an FTP server. Most noteworthy though is that unlike the Canon WFT-E1, this setup is not restricted to areas with WiFi coverage, you can use it anywhere you have a mobile phone signal!

Affiliate Program Launched

Would you like to make money linking to Pocket Phojo from your website, or from referring friends and colleagues? By signing up for our affiliate program, you can earn a huge 20% commission on each sale you generate. That’s $77.80 to $97.80 per sale! You`ll receive a special link to send people, which will then track if they place an order (even if they don’t place it right away), and automatically send your commission via Paypal each month. Join via the link below, or email me for more information!

Join our Affiliate Program!

Notes: Commission is generated on software sales only. Terms subject to change, as we are still experimenting with this.