Two days ago, Eastman Kodak Co. announced that they have began shipping their new digital camera, Kodak EasyShare-One, with WiFi capability. This allows user to send high-quality pictures, within range of hotels, coffee shops, airport lounges, offices, homes and other wireless hot spots, directly onto the Internet and into e-mail boxes.

Last month, Japan’s Nikon Corp. also released their own WiFi digital camera, named Nikon P1 and P2. Many said that Nikon has stealed Kodak’s WiFi ideas, since Kodak introduced the technology first in January and planned to released it in June, but had to postpone it due to engineering, marketing and other logistical glitches.

Kodak EasyShare-One offers four megapixels picture resolution, a 3x optical zoom, capability to store up to 1,500 photos, and a 3-inches liquid-crystal touch screen which contains an easy-to-use instruction menu. You can either e-mail video clips and pictures with captions or post them on Kodak’s online photography site.

According to Mark Cook, director of system strategy in Kodak’s digital-and-film imaging division, “The camera solves the problem of ‘how do I share pictures from wherever I am?‘”. Furthermore, he said, “It changes your mentality. I used to be able to take a picture and then the process kind of stalled until I got to a computer. Now I can share the picture right away and get a phone call back from someone saying, ‘Hey, that was a great picture.‘”

Kodak teamed up with T-Mobile USA, which charges a $4.99 monthly fee to shunt an unlimited number of photos from more than 6,000 hot-spot locations around the country.

Kodak EasyShare-One WiFi digital camera costs $599.

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