T-Mobile G1 Google Phone Can Scan and Fax

If you're interested in the T-Mobile G1 Google phone, you'll be glad to know that you can scan and fax with it. T-Mobile, Google and HTC have included a great 3 megapixel camera in the G1!

Simply take a photo of a document, whiteboard, or business card, email it to scanR, and get a digital scan in just few seconds. Then, download your scan as a PDF, text, or vCard file or fax from my iphone anywhere in the world. To scan or fax, send your photo to these email addresses:

For documents: doc@scanr.com

For whiteboards: wb@scanr.com

For business cards: bc@scanr.com

scanR will reply with a link to view your scan online, fax it or download it to your PC or phone.

Beating the iPhone

With all the excitement, free press coverage and raving fans of the Apple and its iPhone, the incumbent phone companies probably are starting to worry about how to compete. In particular at the high end of the market, where Nokia, Sony Ericsson, RIM and Palm earn their livings.

Apple is clearly going to take the music and fashion segments. With a few tweaks, they could take share in the business market. But for the bulk of the consumer market, there is an opening.

The iPhone is missing two things that appeal to the mass market: a lower price and a good camera.

It's clear from the early reviews that the camera has disappointed. Take a look at these reviews from the web:

"The one HUGE thing that’s keeping me from getting rid of my Nokia is the camera." Robert Scoble.

"Camera: horrible. Really Apple... what the deal!?!?!" Jason Calacanis.

Even MacWorld doesn't like it: "It's definitely more appropriate for fun shots when no other camera is around than as a replacement for your digital camera, even if your camera is five years old."

No phone can have everything and Apple chose a cheap camera. This leaves an opening for the next year or so for its competitors to respond. Music in your pocket is great, but photography is a vastly larger market.

Go get 'em..while you can.

Oh yeah. The iPhone works great with scanR Whiteboards, but won't work well with Documents or Business Cards.

Motorola MOTORAZR maxx Ve

If you're a fan of good camera phones, like us, you have to be happy about the new Motorola MOTORAZR maxx Ve available from Verizon Wireless.

This RAZR is the first to have a truly good camera. The model features a 2 megapixel camera with auto-focus, ensuring high quality digital photos. The images are quite good. In fact, the RAZR maxx currently leads all camera phones on the scanR quality score which you can view at www.CheckMyCameraPhone.com.

This is an impressive victory for Motorola which in the past has not produced market leading cameras. We're looking forward to seeing more from Motorola to help the US catch up to the rest of the world in camera phone quality.

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