iCamCU brings spy phone abilities to your Nokia

After entertaining ourselves for a few minutes by pronouncing "iCamCU!" in a joyous chorus, the novelty of the product quickly wore off, but we thought we'd share it just the same. Basically, the software-that-shall-not-be-named sets up your Nokia smartphone to take a picture when activated via text message, and then sends the pic to you via MMS. We're sure you can find uses for the software beyond the examples depicted, but it's always good to know that a $70 bit of software (not to mention two phones with service) can finally help you catch your dog at his crazy antics.

[Via picturephoning.com]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2006 12:18AM]

Wonderful. I've always wanted to spy on the inside of someone's pocket.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2006 5:14AM]

If you can program Python you could do this yourself very easily. Python for S60 supports taking photos (it could even work out if the photo has changed, like a security cam) and it supports reading text messages from the inbox. I'm not sure if it supports MMS but it would be very easy to send an email with the photo, upload it to an FTP site or send it over bluetooth. I'll write a program that does it if anyone wants to pay me (dave1010 at gmail dot com) half what their software costs (I'm a poor university student).

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2006 11:29AM]

It would work better in places like China, where people wear their phones around their necks- you can see what that person's seeing. Even better, if it would work while that person was talking, then it would have uses too- linking a person to a certain location at a certain time, for instance.