I purchased an independent program for my cell that is Motorola specific
with no affiliation to my carrier on Ebay. It was under $5 and lets me do
most anything I want with multi-media.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: Pictures (Cell Phone) OT.

> 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