Infrared - many laptops come with infrared ports.  Many phones do too.
Bluetooth - most new phones have this feature and many newer laptops do as
well.  you can also purchase a Bluetooth port for your PC.
USB - simplest solution along with Active Sync software if you're running
Windows OS.  You may be able to purchase a USB connector for your phone.
WiFi - if you have a PDA with WiFi capability you can connect directly to a
WiFi-enabled PC.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:

> Off topic, yes.  But there seem to be sharp data-manipulators here on the
> Vanagon list so I'll ask away anyhow, with apologies for off topic. If
> anyone can respond, off list would probably be best.
>
>  Is there a way to get digital photos from my mobile phone (sprint) into my
> photo programs on my PC (windows) without subscribing to some Sprint online
> services that I certainly don't need?  I can pay $15 a month more and get a
> bunch of crap that I'll never use, along with a place to put digital pics
> that come out of my Katana phone, and I can probably send the pics from
> there to my own email...but I take so few pics using the phone and I don't
> do Texting or email or any of the other stuff that comes along with the
> picture service.  It would be useful to be able to record things using the
> camera phone(when I can't carry my digital camera along)  and to be able to
> pass on the pics without paying $180 a year extra to my phone service to
> get the pics out of my handset and into my own computer.
>
>  Isn't there somekinda data-port widget to plug the phone into the computer
> and get the pics across somehow? anybody?
>
>  Thanks, Don Hanson
>