ROCHESTER, N.Y. - After a summer-long delay, Eastman Kodak Co. has begun shipping the first digital camera with Wi-Fi wireless technology to e-mail photos directly to friends and family without a computer.

Users of the new EasyShare-One, priced at $599, can send photos directly through a Wi-Fi transmitter at home or work, or pay $4.99 per month to connect the camera with any of T-Mobile USA's 6,000 hot spots at stores, airports, hotels and other establishments.

However, subscribers to other Wi-Fi services will not be able to connect an EasyShare-One to those wireless accounts.

The EasyShare-One's liquid-crystal screen contains an easy-to-use instruction menu: Shutterbugs can either e-mail pictures and video clips or post them on Kodak's online photography site.

Though the photos are actually routed through the Kodak site, users can set up their accounts so that the messages appear to arrive from a personal e-mail address.

Camera-equipped cell phones already offer photo-sharing capabilities but typically produce low-resolution images. The new Kodak camera boasts 4 megapixels of resolution, 3x optical zoom, storage room for up to 1,500 photos and a 3-inch touch screen — big enough for the camera to double as a portable album.

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soon, you'll be able to set up a stream to your computer and record yourself fscking some chick.

If you're into this stuff, another option is a DAP (people still call them MP3 players) that supports USB On-The-Go. You can hook you're DAP directly up to your digital camera and move the pictures to the DAP. My favorite DAP that supports this is the iAudio X5L.

I know that article is talking about emailing, but my guess is that emailing the pictures to somebody else really isn't the point. I just don't see what they do on the television commercials where you take a picture of something and email it to your wife to show her how neat it is, as a heavily used application. My guess is that the real application is just getting them out of your camera's storage so that you can take more pictures. And, last I checked, DAP's provided a lot more storage for the dollar than those memory cards that go in the cameras. I don't do this myself, so my information could be outdated.