Wireless USB Sends Images, Video from Cell Phone to Laptop

Wisair, a provider of Ultra Wideband and Wireless USB chipset solutions, is demonstrating at 3GSM World Congress the use of Wireless USB chip embedded into a mobile phone with camera to wirelessly send images and video to a notebook computer.

The demo, based on Certified Wireless USB technology, uses the Wisair 542 chip embedded into a Nokia N series camera phone.

There is no info on availability of mobile phones providing this technology.

Wisair says its Certified Wireless USB chipset is also ideal for a range of applications, such as digital cameras and camcorders, printers and scanners, external hard drives, PDAs, portable media players, TVs, DVD/PVR players, etc.

The Wireless USB provides data rate modes in range from 53.3 to 480 megabytes per second and coexistence with 802.11 and Bluetooth connections, according to the company.

Press Release