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Lerc 4 days ago

There are a lot of things our phones are capable of that we are not able to get them to do.

Even before the iPhone I had a phone with front and rear cameras and Bluetooth, it has long since been replaced and is probably sitting at the back of a drawer somewhere. If I had the ability to make it work as a Bluetooth webcam it might have had a productive second life. It was physically capable of doing this, just not software capable

com2kid 4 days ago | parent [-]

The latency and bandwidth on BT does not suffice for today's expected webcam level quality.

FWIW you can use an Android phone as a web cam. Not sure what the latency is though...

Lerc 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yes but this was pre iPhone days. It was not going to be doing today's expected webcam level quality no matter which way you sliced it.