The company announced today that it will produce the Kodak PalmPix camera for the Palm III and Palm VII lines. After a photo is taken, the PalmPix software will allow the user to see a low-resolution preview of the image.
Users can also beam photos to one another.
When the user performs a hot sync operation, the images are automatically loaded to the desktop computer and erased from the Palm's memory. The camera captures images in 24-bit color with its CMOS sensor. Although CMOS sensors are relatively cheap to produce, they often introduce more noise into an image than the CCD sensors found in higher-end cameras. Kodak says it does not intend for the device to replace a full-function digital camera. Instead, they expect people to use the PalmPix camera to document information.