Phone helps users keep an eye on home
News brought to you by Skint Tariffs, providers of price comparison for cheap international calls. A new service that relays the images captured on a CCTV camera to a users mobile phone is the latest to take advantage of the capabilities of new handsets.
Qeeps, a service that allows people to keep an eye on a remote location via their mobile handset, works with a range of video recording devices.
According to Stewart McCone, technical director of parent company Vermotion Interactive, people seem to fall in love with the service.
Using the technology users can keep track of comings and goings at their home, keep an eye on their car or even get a live feed of their favourite view out of their window.
It shows that as well as helping people make cheap international calls, keep in touch with friends through SMS and arrange their calendar, mobile phones are increasingly becoming part of people's lives.
It also seems that phones and laptops could meet somewhere in the middle, as mobile broadband is giving the lightweight computers the mobility of a handset and as handset increasingly perform computing functions.
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