using phone camera with wap

Question

Hi all,

I going to create a wap site using wml and servlets, it should be able to access phones camera and take a snapshot. Is it possible to a wap site to access phones camera?

I know it is not possible in straightforward way, since wap sites are running under lots of restrictions in a mobile. But is there any way to get around these restrictions and use the phones camera?

Thanks in advance, Nuwan

Answer 1

I don't think WAP is able to access any of the hardware of a phone. Perhaps some phones expose camera functionality via J2ME (or in the case of iPhones/Android/Windows Mobile, an OS specific API).

This is why many sites ask you to email/MMS in your photos to upload them.