Rob, If you look at the numbers in Japan, you will see that soon
essentially all mobile phones will have one or two built-in cameras.
So to shut off all phones with cameras, you just shut of all
mobile phones :) don't mind about the few mobile phones, which
are so old, that they don't have a camera in them yet...
Gerhard
Rob Shavell wrote:
> Does anyone have any thoughts/ ideas concerning how only the camera elements
> of camera phones could be "temporarily disabled"?
>
> there are many places where businesses would want to 'guarantee' that all
> camera cell phones (all brands, now, and in future) could be shut off across
> a certain area or for a certain amount of time?
>
> i suppose this could happen with a product or service at many layers from
> physically integrated hardware to bolt-on clips to logical 'registries' that
> tracked any usage per phone # or something? what would / could ways be to
> make this happen that are somewhat realistic?
>
> very simply: if i own a business and want to buy something that ensures
> anyone that walks in with a cameraphone CAN NOT take pictures inside, what
> would i buy?
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