This SD Card is a Camera

Last week, I looked at the iPaq h2215, a PocketPC from 2003. This week, we're taking a look at some addons for the PocketPC:
-HP Photosmart Mobile Camera
-Pharos iGPS
-Nevo (Remote control software)
Check out my video on the iPaq here:
• A Windows PC in your P...

[@allsystemsbakkoi1767]

Believe it or not, SDIO is still used today inside many embedded devices, even some consumer ones. Take low end tablets for instance, it isn't uncommon to see cheap intel android/windows tablets using a Broadcom 802.11abgn Wireless SDIO Adapter of one model or another. Of course such hardware is built into the motherboard and is not user removable. Why? Cost cutting and convenience of implementation.

[@tmp64]

Mediatek use SDIO to connect the modem to the CPU. I found that out when I was installing Debian on an MT6589 smartphone replacing Android. Still can't get Wi-Fi to work.

[@SianaGearz]

Yes, SDIO Wifi+Bluetooth is very common on those cheap Windows Atom tablets.

[@SudosFTW]

most Bay Trail-CR Atom tablets/netbooks utilize a Realtek RTL8188CUS-based SDIO board soldered onto the motherboard of these cheap devices... higher-end devices generally have the Broadcom card. and, as one would expect, they come in a few board flavors and generally they're not pin-compatible with each other for exclusivity reasons in manufacturing and design.

[@DoomRater]

This is making me want to add one to a Pi 3 so I have a super spy hacking device that can use old gadgets and outdated technology.

[@viettran7981]

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[@elviswjr]

That's a surprisingly good camera. I was expecting a low res, grainy, blurry mess.

[@BilisNegra]

And that's what you will get most times. He did get decent shots with optimal lighting and making the thing rest perfectly still.

[@harshnemesis]

@@BilisNegra But just the fact it is capable of taking decent photos, this was the best mobile camera still long after it came out.

[@shadoxfm8822]

I mean hp camera were amazing back in the day

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

It is 1.3 MP. If you tried to enlarge the photo you might eventually see the picture becoming grainy. That is the same with better cameras too but much less likely to happen.

[@ballerisunfunny9368]

=D

[@kiriakostriadafillidis2400]

"or you can flip it around and take them like this", I just love you 😂

[@gutzbin]

Jeez at least wait until the 2nd date to confess

[@aidan1038]

Mazen Fire, that was just great.

[@mohammadzafar7891]

Hah gayyyyyyyyy

[@contractualnews9488]

Avoiding face reveal?

[@claudiobizama5603]

I like the use of the fidget spinner to show the frames per second.

[@DisgustingDrewTV]

Claudio Bizama it finally has a non-autistic use

[@technologyproductions-ye3px]

Disgusting Drew stop using it as a insult

[@negirno]

Recording a recent fad with a decade old digital camera feels like listening to modern pop music on vinyl, at least for me.

[@technologyproductions-ye3px]

I would love to record gaming on this piece of garbage oh wait my laptop can run GTA 4 with a higher frame rate then this garbage can record heck even hypercam can record at a higher frame rate then this garbage the only way this would be useful is time lapse

[@sonicunleashedfan124]

Disgusting Drew HEY!

[@gregs7519]

I had a higher end iPaq back in the day (I still have it somewhere). I had the hard case, an external battery case w/PCMCIA slot, a car windshield mount, & other stuff. I used it for email & office documents, war driving w/a Pringles cantenna, & as an OBD2 scanner to read/reset check engine codes in cars! It was very modular, & way ahead of it's time!

[@AnkhInfinitus]

That joke about flipping the camera around was hilarious. Have a like.

[@Isaacfess]

Lol, No face reveal yet.

[@macstevins]

Isaacfess maybe in the 100K subscribers special.

[@AnkhInfinitus]

Not nearly enough.

[@pilotavery]

I fucking died laughing

[@Kapin05]

2:26 "a jittery hand" That's not just jittery, that's Parkinson's

[@Time4Technology]

That's not something to joke about, imo.

[@SwiftJukesSucks]

Georg anything can be joked about

[@anujdgaf]

I choked

[@jacquelineliu2641]

nah, it's actually sped up

[@akilaathi458]

@@SuperAdnan117 calm down mate

[@foofiethedestroyer6162]

That video of the cat was super aesthetic

[@kornkernel2232]

The shots are actually impressive for its time. I was expecting worse but it turned out to be good. Heck, even it can be used for profile photos or Instagram shots.

[@sktchyyy]

How about you explain your prof pic huh?

[@foofiethedestroyer6162]

jo si ya jo si ya don’t worry about it

[@xash06]

jo si ya jo si ya it's hot

[@bubbleheadft]

I have a feeling 144/240p 10-15fps is gonna be the hipster aesthetic in the next few years, now that the polaroid/super8 craze is dying out.

[@jeremyaster7470]

"Dad, why is my sister named Rose" "Beacause your mom loves roses" "Thanks dad" "You're welcome, HP Photosmart Mobile Camera"

[@mrmaniac3]

They had us in the first half

[@harshvithlani9399]

I don’t understand this joke

[@jeremyaster7470]

@@harshvithlani9399 it's because I really really like this object

[@harshvithlani9399]

jeremy aster I don’t understand

[@jeremyaster7470]

@@harshvithlani9399 the dad loves the HP Photosmart Mobile Camera so by that same logic of his wife naming his daughter rose because she loves roses, he named his son HP Photosmart Mobile Camera because he loves HP Photosmart Mobile Cameras.

[@sinom]

1:27 I like that joke. If it's supposed to be one.

[@1019wc1019]

Lol it is. I cant tell if the shakiness is faked. If not he should try some marijuana.

[@BilisNegra]

It's not himself. He invited Michael J. Fox to try out the iPaq

[@1019wc1019]

haha! just got that.

[@KayOScode]

Took the comment right out of my hands. I hoped he was joking, but it was hard to tell

[@Alexander_l322]

I'm glad someone else saw that as a joke cuz I found it funny but unsure

[@Sb129]

I like how it shows 4x Digital zoom like it's something special back in the very early days of mobile computers in general (be it laptop, Palmtop or handheld) Compact Flash cards with extra I/O was pretty common, in addition to the GPS ones there were modems, ethernet, Wifi, wireless modems (cellular) and stuff like barcode scanners. Very versatile for the time

[@emdotrod]

With the advancement of USB Type-C we will never see these kind of cards anymore. But it's fun to now that people once use SD card slot for peripherals

[@bairfamilyfarm1336]

Ardimo Harsa you think that's funny? People used to put picture CDs and Floppy disks into cameras.

[@yevoidstar]

USB C? Normal USB A and OTG can provide functionality like this

[@shoopnooop2952]

I think they even were able to use mini usb to use addons like the otg stuff.

[@zaydabbas1609]

My pocket pc takes CF cards as add-ons. I have a wifi cf card

[@mikedev101]

zappy bear not to mention zip disks also... (I think?)

[@blazbohinc5735]

Even some really old cameras take good photos. Provided you take 5 mintues to take the shot. New cameras are just so much faster that even if the picture quality isn't that different, ease of use wins every time.

[@Architector_4]

0:43 I _REALLY_ want to see this set of adapters closed in. I require footage of a finger pushing that microSD card into that mini SD card into that SD-CF Adapter into that CompactFlash adapter into that slot.

[@xavier6130]

Me too.

[@sharpgamesofficial5558]

The pictures that come from it are good by today's standards.

[@somethingaboutmirrors]

Sharp Games Official I think “acceptable” is a better adjective here?

[@kornkernel2232]

They are not bad that some can be actually used as profile images or something simple. The problem was it is so easy to get blurry shots which can result to unusable photos.

[@pgtmr2713]

He had to work to get those. I used to have both the ipaq and the camera. Nevo was awesome. I used to program it for tvs and dvd players at friend's houses

[@remlet3753]

Sharp Games Official heck it even looks better than my phone's camera

[@TimurTripp2]

Definitely better than the early iPhones up until the 3GS in 2009. By today's standards though, most entry-level smartphones will take better photos.

[@SarahLJP]

0:50 デジタルTVチューナー [dejitaru TV chūnā] Digital TV tuner カメラ [kamera] Camera ボイスレコーダー [boisu rekōdā] Voice recorder スキャナ [sukyana] Scanner 指紋認証 [しもん にんしょう, shimon ninshō] Fingerprint Authentication

[@Tekashi-oe1wj]

Thanks

[@ProwlXV]

arigatou!

[@arunraman6630]

Thanks. I can't read kanji that well so I didn't get the last one

[@ulogy]

Meanwhile folks still think I'm a freaking wizard when I use my modern smartphone to turn the TV on or adjust the volume.

[@aidancommenting]

It's sad that they stopped putting remotes into phones. The only place you'll see an IR blaster on a modern smartphone is in the Chinese market Edit: I didn't realize just how old this comment was until I replied to it.. I'm surprised nobody else replied

[@ulogy]

@@aidancommenting Exactly why I love living in Canada. Can still get all the Huawei and ZTE phones I want, haha.

[@aidancommenting]

@@ulogy My only problem with Huawei is they can't use Google services anymore, so you'd have to look for an older phone unless you're buying it just for the IR blaster. I wish they'd kept them though, it'd make a really cool feature in phones that are actually updated nowadays

[@ulogy]

@@aidancommenting All you need to do is sideload the Google Play apps.

[@LewysC]

Some of those pictures actually look quite good XD We need more modular devices in 2018 they're so cool and have so much wasted potential

[@toontownlegomaster]

Literally no one: Camera makers: Lets just completely screw sd cards and just make them into damn cameras.

[@EdgeRatedR007]

Pharos means lighthouse in Greek. I guess that’s a cool name for a GPS.

[@TheScienceElf]

I guess that explains why it's called the "Lighthouse of the 21st Century" on the box.

[@Rullino32]

In Italian lighthouse means "Faro" 💡

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

No, Z, I think you meant that it _IS_ Greek, and means "lighthouse" in *English.*

[@dsylexic]

In spanish means "faro"

[@patanjalilemonsquashimmortal]

This video was refreshing. I was transported to simpler times for a few minutes. Coming bacc to reality doesn't feel so good but I feel better overall.

[@GoldSrc_]

You got my like and sub with that Lion King joke xD

[@Seekah_]

10/10 for avoiding selfie joke

[@eduardoavila646]

Damn, i need to travell back in time and give a ipaq to me.. I really missed a whole universe of things by not having such device in that time....

[@RennieAsh]

At school we got to take home a Palm One Zire 31. It was the pinacle of "Technology in Schools". It could play solitaire and it was a challenge to see how many songs you could fit on the 64MB SD card

[@eduardoavila646]

Rennie Ash But did it had a expandable memory to maybe 512megs? It would be a good deal. Did they gave those for you or it was schools property? The closest to that was a dumb phone i've got around 2007/2008 that could acess mobile internet, i used it to make write annotations using the sms app, using the old numeric keyboard. I am seriouslly thinking in getting a gpd to br like a pda-ish device, but with usb and x86 processor.

[@RennieAsh]

Eduardo Avila it probably did have capacity for bigger SD cards, but they only gave us a small memory one. And no, we had to return them at the end of the year. I then didn't get a mobile device until 2 years later, but that was my own. Having not grown up with as free access to tech and internet as people do now or even as others have had, I've basically been slowly learning about stuff at a later age. But, it's been enough I guess. Just I'm not some child prodigy ;=)

[@aaron71]

Cool video, I had the camera with the ipaq I got from my dad! Seems useless today but back then... man it was so much better than film and developing. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@Sithhy]

Now imagine these things came back, running Windows 10 or Linux... *THAT* would be awesome IMO

[@PixelSheep]

Sithhy so damn true :D

[@ninja1inblack105]

Windows phone....

[@pranita2905]

Ninja1inblack has a point, Windows Phone runs Windows 10 and Android is built on Linux, you can even access the built in shell with an app and root.

[@wordenglishtextvroommachin5720]

That has already happend. See www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-world-s-most-powerful-pocket-sized-pc#/

[@eastlondonhustler]

@Adrians Augustovskis That looks kool! I know it's asking for too much, but If they can just squeeze a portable projector into that thing, i would be amazed!

[@gentuxable]

I had a 2xPCMCIA jacket for my iPAQ that allowed me to connect to WiFi and have a CF card in the second slot, was very useful but extremely bulky by today's standards. Had the IR port as well, which I used for printing.

[@brushfuse]

They're surprisingly good shots. I'm amazed.

[@peelzboyplays6089]

There are many channels that I watch and never sub to, but this video (first one I've ever seen on your channel) was so calm, informative, and entertaining (the camera flip gag got a chuckle out of me) that I just had to hit that button. I hope your channel keeps growing! Keep up the awesome content :3

[@BlackCatRedScarf]

I remember those SDIO Bluetooth back in early 2000's. Back in the day, Bluetooth was very uncommon and I remember to use the infrared on my Palm m100, m125, computer (USB adapter for the win) and some cellphones with 0.3MP cameras. :)

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

I amazed at the quality of those photos.

[@i0.0t]

Your videos are one of the only things I enjoy seeing on youtube

[@Naturenerd1000]

Pretty cool that the satellites are still up and working for this archaic GPS.

[@buttdickenz]

that cat was so cute

[@immanuelsuleiman7550]

you have excellent taste in music

[@immanuelsuleiman7550]

potato potato potato potato potato potato potato beautiful 😁

[@immanuelsuleiman7550]

Optyx calm the fuck down

[@1019wc1019]

why did the algorithm push this to meeee? seems like this video got picked up and probably will go viral compared to your last videos. Good job on getting noticed by the all mighty youtube algorithm.

[@AntonioKowatsch]

I wish PDA's would make a come back. I used to love those back in the days.

[@alexcouter]

Holy crap, that was the first ever "smartphone" I touched, I was 8/9 years old. Just got a flashback, thanks to you !

[@entropynme]

Holy shit, I actually had one of those pharos GPS modules my father won in a meeting when I was a kid. I'll never forget how amazed I was when I saw the streets on the screen that we were driving by out the window

[@jamesfactora6276]

I'm just watching this to get it off of my KZbin recommendations

[@jamesfactora6276]

It costs 130$? ... 1.3MP ...

[@pol.k]

Had several pocket pc and this hp cam to that time. Thank you for the videos. It's a wouderfull memories to the time where the world was for me ok.

[@AamirBilal]

The alternative path to an all screen bezel free phone.

[@HK_808]

Reminds me of the memory stick to floppy adapter for the mavica

[@MrX-nj2ck]

Wow so this is what the iPhone 6 selfie camera was competing with

[@happysmash27]

To be fair, with expandability today, many expansions can be made with USB OTG. If one considers all the internal expansion in phones like the Librem 5, one could have a phone that could be even more expandable than this one.

[@Dylan-qq3tk]

This would be a good gift to a nostalgic friend

[@Aquagamer224]

When a camera from 2003-2009 works better than you're new phone

[@sinom]

This video just has so many jokes you completely deadpan through. I love it.

[@drwatson32bit]

I was a sophomore that year, had an iPaq 3830, loved messing with teachers by turning tvs and vcrs on and whatnot.

[@pilotavery]

That funny joke about flipping the phone around at 1:25 is fucking funny as shit.

[@AlyssaPerrine]

this is super cool! i can see people wanting to buy these for the nostalgia. people seem to do that a lot now, between original polaroids (when they could just buy a fujifilm for much cheaper and better quality) or even VCRs.

[@gouravdey2856]

Thanks for this recommendation from youtube, otherwise i will never knew that this types of products existed in my early age.

[@theRealChadWarden42069]

1:27 LMAO

[@AlejandroFerrariMc]

I thought we would finally see his face lol

[@phills6732]

Good, I wasn't the only person to find that hilarious

[@macstevins]

Alejandro Ferrari maybe he will show his face in the 100k subscribers video.

[@EmanuelFrias]

Very great and interesting video! Also, the music at the end is so relaxing. Take care.

[@RimuKora]

"You thought i was just a Memory Card, BUT ITS WAS ME, SDIO"

[@sravannotshravan]

The time when you realise you are plugging a camera into your camera thinking that it is an SD card.

[@afterglow-podcast]

I remember using a Dell Axim x51v when waiting tables as a small tablet to write orders on without going through a ton of paper, and later at a different job as an ebook reader and NES emulator.

[@alexadnan77]

i always hoped someone would build a external camera for cellphones..and now i'm seeing something like this already exists??

[@dimitrischristou]

Its like modular design

[@marcobyrdi6632]

no

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

yes

[@Kitteh.B]

Holy cow I completely forgot about these cameras. I had one for a Dell Axim (x51 I think)! The card wasn't HP branded, I'm not sure what it was, but it looked almost exactly the same!

[@King_Andrew]

2:18 - 2:29 Gave me ridiculous anxiety levels!!!

[@rizkypradana901]

Throwback in 2005 my first mobile phone was used Motorola MPX200 and it has SDIO camera..not so practical but it was nice to be unique back then..

[@thunderlina3237]

I just have to say, your cat is adorable.

[@rubiohernandezerickdaniel2111]

This thing takes better pictures than my LG phone from 2015

[@MC-oi2pb]

That's actually pretty cool. We take smartphone cameras for granted nowadays.

[@Orbis92]

I went crazy, when a friend of my showed up with his Motorola phone and a SD card camera...a phone with a camera, incredible :D

[@EVRLYNMedia]

0:42 that's an adapter for an adapter for an adapter for an adapter for a microsd card

[@ChaseMC215]

You should give that thing to Clint, he needs one of those camera things

[@robokaos69]

Was very shocked at how good those photos came out. Given they're hard as hell to take, but still.

[@rajasimanta]

That pic quality is DOPE

[@maxwell_edison]

We should bring this back! Modular phones have failed, but these peripherals could be fun.

[@luibossa]

This channel is so underrated

[@klnguyen279]

Really impressed by the image quality of this "SD camera".

[@gambogelyght]

wow that camera takes better photos than my Smartphone camera…

[@Retikulum01]

id love if the camera existed without the sd card and its just a standalone camera

[@larrylentini5688]

This camera is really impressive for the time

[@cliz305]

I have the Handspring Visor deluxe and the camera & GPS module. The GPS just works great, but it require batteries on its own. The camera can make video with really peculiar feeling (kind of like a horror movie). It's more like GIF than video because they are only five seconds. Actually, my profile picture is taken with that camera. I had no way of exporting the picture other than taking a screen shot with snapshot app and exporting it to win xp or win 2000.

[@Henchman1977]

In the early 2Ks I had a Palm device that slipped inti a Magellan gps back plate.

[@Sl4yerkid]

those are actually some nice pictures.

[@denisruzicka754]

Came here to see little spy camera built into sd card. Saw what the video is actually about and wasn't dissapointed

[@orangy57]

damn, that's a hell of a camera for 1.3 megapixels. It seems like the software was actually tuned well enough to make full use of it, unlike my moto g5 that churns out piss poor photos with a 13 megapixel camera

[@chancho00]

This is the camera everyone strangely has on hand every time when there is an Ovni or other supernatural event in front of them.

[@MenacingPerson]

Watch the video before commenting bro

[@chancho00]

@@MenacingPerson You dint get the joke hmm, i know the camera its old and shit but for some weird reason all those videos you can see of people filming "ovnis" they always have low quality no matter that we have great cameras even on smarthphones nowadays.

[@keppochuppu]

This is the camera every ghost sighting ever is caught on

[@MenacingPerson]

Watch the video before commenting bro

[@TheGoldenRiolu123]

petition to have HP work with leica and/or sony to bring this back as a standalone camera

[@IAmAnAlbatross...]

old days gadgets were fun...😍

[@ryantoomey611]

The universal remote feature is nice, many smartphones today did away with the IR blaster. Best of all it has a HEADPHONE JACK! Which the iPhone doesn't even have anymore.

[@Avslappnandeljud]

Surprisingly good photo quality for the time. Must've cost a fortune way back when

[@tihzho]

2:18 Might want to cut back on the coffee

[@guts2048]

Hahahaha

[@Arcgateway]

I remember taking photos with this on some expo before smartphones were around and people were looking at me as if i had some sci-fi gadget.

[@visibleconfusion9894]

that camera is better then my modern phone

[@BilisNegra]

How funny, how original...

[@symbolxchannel]

The only thing I did on my Compaq iPaq was play Worms World Party... Anything else was painful to do. I was so exited to get the first iPod Touch! It felt, in comparison, like alien technology!

[@jaypee112233]

2:21 this looks like one of those infomercials where they try to show how difficult it is to do something without their product.

[@thenasiudk1337]

When a 2003 1.3 MP camera is better than your phone camera

[@sejalsoniashivprasad5442]

Nope its fkin not

[@Howard1939]

BTW: iPAQ was originally developed by Compaq Computer Corp. & was marketed by Compaq as a CPAQ (iirc), HP just didn't push it's development, as iPhone and other Apple products took off.

[@johnsimun6533]

Child: I want a iPad. Dad: does your eye hurt? Child: daad. Dad: ? Dad shows up with a pack of eye pads. Child: you aren’t funny. iPad Dad: ? Thinks to his self, damn kids are confusing. Says iPad, ok. Dad: goes to store and ask clerk, my child wants a iPad. With a questionable tone. Clerk: ipaq Dad: yes

[@Erick-uf9ek]

The pics of these camera is really god

[@nicksalvatore5717]

Wow, those pictures look amazing done right.

[@kofteburger]

I remember seeing this on a catalog.

[@refraggedbean]

when I saw this at first I thought this was a camera that was about the size of an SD card, now I want to make that a thing

[@garthvater]

That camera is crazy good considering when it was made.