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The Growth of Picture Phones

Posted by Hemos on from the where-do-they-end-up dept.

Da1ek writes "Bill Thompson has a article on BBCi, commenting on the flurry of picture messaging phones. 'With cameras everywhere, technology consultant Bill Thompson wonders if we should be worried about where the images of ourselves are ending up', check out the full article here."

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  1. Is this necessary? by Soporific · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do we really need another device to create those pictures that constitute the "priceless" e-mail's received of a drunken someone hitting on their sister?

    ~S

  2. Just great.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...last thing we need is some script kiddies mass mailing the goatse.cx guy to our cell phones.

    1. Re:Just great.... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "..last thing we need is some script kiddies mass mailing the goatse.cx guy to our cell phones."

      Have you seen the resolution of these phones? People'd probably think you were playing Caverns of Mars or something.

  3. Toilet in a phone by Soporific · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they invent this, I will die a happy man.

    ~S

  4. Dogbert's videophone by jhol · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/imag es/dilbert20031828950102.gif

  5. You know MS's Stinger phone? by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm gonna send people with those bsod.gif.

    (it's a variant of the old 'sending "LO BATT" to people with alphanumeric pagers' joke...)

  6. As usual, Futurama predicts all! by voodoo1man · · Score: 2, Funny
    Amy: Hey! That's me!
    Bender: No it isn't. I just took some pictures of your face and stuck them on someone else's body.
    Leela: [looks inside] Hey!"

    (episode 2ACV09, A Bicyclops Built For Two)

    --

    In the great CONS chain of life, you can either be the CAR or be in the CDR.