At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Sony presented the new camera from its Cyber-shot product line. The DSC-G3 comes with a Zeiss lens with 4x zoom, a large 3.5" touch display and 4 GB of internal memory. Most interesting is the camera's software that includes, among other things, face and scene recognition, based on Busybox and Kernel 2.6.11 for the Access Linux Platform (ALP). The kernel code makefile reveals further:
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 11
EXTRAVERSION := $(EXTRAVERSION)-alp
NAME=Woozy Beaver
ALP is the successor to the Palm OS.
The camera's additional WLAN module and integrated browser allow photos to go directly on the web or to be sent over e-mail, via a deal in the U.S. with AT&T. Unlike competitor products from Nikon or Kodak that have their own Wi-Fi functions, the Sony camera works with AT&T hotspots so that external access point software isn't necessary. The Sony webpage has a general overview of the camera's features.
Sony DSC-G3 Cyber-shot Digital Camera
Source code for the kernel, Busybox and other components are available for free download here. The DSC-G3 costs about $500 in the U.S.
Source: linuxpromagazine
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