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Blogging With Camera Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-dollar-an-entry dept.

Zastrossi writes "The Register reports that NewBay Software, "is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or 'blogs' using only their phones." Sounds like a pretty sound idea, particularly in that they're selling to the telcos as opposed to consumers. SMS was one revenue source for mobile providers, will camera phones become another?"

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  1. Already done it by Uhh_Duh · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wrote a quick perl script to do this for a friend who has a camera phone.

    It picks up the incoming mail via a sendmail pipe (in /etc/aliases) which routes it to a perl script which parses out the email content and attachments (pictures from the phone) and posts them to a MySQL database. The front-end of the project involved CGI scripts that would talk to the MySQL database and display the data to the web.

    Result? Real-time blogging from the camera with pictures and text! Total lines of code? Less than 100.

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  2. I set up something like this.. by rasjani · · Score: 3, Informative

    Friend of my from workplace bought nokia phone with digicam stuff. It seems that this phone can send those images as email to someone.. Well, i set his (hosted) unix box in a way that when ever it receives email from the phone, all attached jpg's will get saved to a web folder..

    That folder has some php gallery code and everything runs smoothly.

    I didnt really need anything fancy to acomplish this.. ripmime, procmail and and that phpslideshow i downloaded from freshmeat.

    I guess i could set him up with "blogging" options too so that he can send email containing just text too so that his blog would get updated too.

    Not *that* big deal you know ...

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  3. Re:Expensive by mph · · Score: 3, Informative

    Technically, the terms of service for $10/unlimited Vision only allow you to send/receive data on the phone itself, not to use it with your laptop, PDA, etc. However, many people are reporting that this limitation is not being enforced, and that they'll probably only be looking for the egregious offenders who consistently use their cell phone in place of a dialup or broadband connection. In any case, this article was talking about a service accessed on the phone itself, so that would definitely fall under the $10/unlimited plan.

  4. Re:Text entry? by knuurius · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ericsson released the Chatboard for their mobile phones if you prefer a QUERTY Keyboard.

    All mobile phones I bought the last 3 years came with T9 Text Input. Don't know about phones in the USA, but here in Europe, most people I know use this system on their phones. They come with a built in dictionary, so you only have to press one button per character and it knows, which word you want to type. If there are several possibilities, you can choose the right one. It's much faster than the "normal" way to type text messages and you can even add new (swear)words to the dictionary ;)


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