I love taking photos and posting and sending them around. Earlier this year I purchased a camera phone while in the UK and had fun sending photos to my friends around the world. It was fairly easy to configure MMS with Vodaphone Live service. Well, I did have to change the URL in the Nokia menu to ".pp" as I was a pre-paid sub, but that was easy. It did not, however, work when I was on the old D2 network (formerly Manesmann Mobilfunk, now Vodafone...disclosure - I worked for D2 designing and building the network from 1990-1993 in old Niederlassung West). Well, it was impossible to send a photo from Germany to anywhere since the GPRS gateway address was different. To meet the projections from the story below from Smartmobs, things will REALLY have to improve.
Phonecams everywhere.
Images made by the phones may presently be poor low-resolution shots but as cameras, the phones have other advantages. They are portable, discreet and networked which allows them to transmit the images they capture to another such phone, an e-mail address or the Internet.Soon they may be everywhere. The research firm, Strategy Analytics, predicts that 42 million camera cell phones will be sold worldwide this year and that sales will reach 218 million by 2008. A spokesman for Sony Ericsson, Peter Bodor,said "Eventually, all mobile phones will have either a picture or video camera."
For both good and evil, phonecams proliferate [Smart Mobs]
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