One may recall how in the first press release about the MMS gleefully described the ability to send directly to your phone simple circuits, diagrams and drawings. Especially emphasized the convenience ligament MMS + built-in camera. Later, promotional enthusiasm on this subject has calmed down, and manufacturers have focused on the depiction of the great happiness of receiving the phone screen on your favorite people and the surrounding scenery. The reason is banal as the landscape: the built-in camera photographed and sent as an MMS to the drawings and diagrams really was nothing to be dismantled.
For all the temptation and the seeming simplicity of the "flipped-sent", the practical value of such a possibility is close to zero. At least with regard to drawings and diagrams. There are several reasons:
Low resolution of most built-in phone cameras - with fuzzy sets and crumpled jpeg-compression line.
Inability to set the camera in black and white mode, the lack of funds in the phone image processing algorithms are unimportant auto white color, etc. Clearly, it is difficult to expect from your phone such functions, and hardly anyone wants to mess around with image processing. However, as a result - blurry dark (not black!) Line on a gray-brown-crimson background.
Inaccurate positioning device for shooting - the distortion of the drawing. Also easily explained: when shooting at close range is not the slightest perpendicularity chamber leads to strong distortions, but the availability of an explanation to us with you no easier.
Output is: take a picture, "merge" into a computer to process an image editing program, the result is downloaded to the phone and send it via MMS-channel. Already ridiculous? Wait, that's not all. Some phone manufacturers (let's not point fingers), carefully stripped user from upload / download images directly, allowing only do that via MMS or Wap. The word "care" is not in quotes deliberately: it is really caring, but on the operator to the subscriber, God forbid, do not try to save money on sending MMS. You can buy a smartphone with a touch screen and draw directly on it, but this is not a mass solution, and draw on the screen - a dubious pleasure.
RealEyes3D company offers an interesting software solution for automatic data processing and image enhancement. As far as can be seen from the rather meager description of the product being loaded into the phone program is "sharpened" the transformation of color images in black and white graphics: the image is converted to monochrome, contrast enhanced, optimized brightness. More important goodies: smart software can automatically correct the geometric distortion caused by tilting the camera when shooting. Especially if the picture or drawing prudent to conclude in a rectangular frame. On assurances developers distortion of drawings with a predominance of straight lines and perpendicular lines will be corrected and no additional frames. It is difficult to say how much demand will be the possibility of transferring graphics with lots of small details on the phone (display size is small), but let's not forget about the possibility of sending an MMS to address email.And, of course, play for MMS in the beloved Tic-Tac-Toe God himself commanded, nothing that at $ 0.39 for each course - for the happiness you have to pay!
There is the inevitable nod to the all kinds of decorations: text / picture / drawing can be rotated, painted in any color, to supply the shadows and apply to the selected images from the collection substrate. A kind of attempt to satisfy the maximum number of potential customers: a need in a simple and convenient communication features graphics and just want to send MMS-postcard with an individual handwritten greeting. Very interesting mechanics of such a "colorization" lines: it seems that the lines are already transformed and adapted the figure further processed with the addition of color. In terms of literacy for the Treatment of network resources and the phone this decision deserves sincere respect. Indeed, black and white version of the photograph would "weigh" several times less than at the same level as jpeg-compression, or (more likely), this operation is over the image will use a much more gentle compression algorithm and get the output is quite decent image without noticeable jpeg defects.
Its "fly in the ointment" is present - where the same without her. Currently, the software can work only with devices on a platform of Symbian, and even then not all. At first glance, undeservedly overlooked smartphones Sony Ericsson, although the company strongly asserted that "Well, right now is" intensive work. In fact, the reasons for the mysterious "inattention" to these smartphones are quite clear: the touch screen at the very least lets you draw and send a simple chertezhik, ie This software is increasingly focused on initially "offended" smartphone manufacturers Siemens and Nokia. Another sad fact - specific default-install the program, you can not save the image before sending it as an MMS. Clearly visible attempt to please a potential emboldening the customer in the face of the actual operator, is interested in the growth of MMS-traffic. In any case, the solution is interesting and promising, although the mass clearly does not pull. However - who knows: homo sapiens to pull the handle and a piece of paper successfully survived not one technological revolution.
