Dear DU camera phone experts.

[Gold Metal Flake]

So I have this here cell phone with a doggone camera in it. How do you get the pix outta the phone and into the computerator? Is the IR thingie the only way? Can you get an IR thingy for a PC?

[MsKandice01]

1. It doesn't come with a cable thingamajiggy?

Mine came with a USB.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. I've been hosed!!

Nope. It's a Nokia and it only has the infra red transmitter.

Like this one:



http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/Detail.aspx?device=74337a83-7f05-4b2f-9fa9-2eba35486764

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. Oops! They DO have a USB thingy.

But the manual does not speak of it.

http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/6101/0,7747,acc:1|accCategory:70,00.html

Found it on Ebay for cheap.


Thanks to all!

[MsKandice01]

15. Sweeeet!

:)

[REP]

2. Is Your Phone/Computer BlueTooth?

If so, turn on BlueTooth on computer and phone. Discover phone with computer. Browse phone. Open phone file with pictures; select pictures; send them to computer.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Hmmm. No Bluetooth either. My laptop does not have IR.

Gotta find some add-on IR thingie?

[REP]

7. No Idea; Mine's a Motorola

and obviously, Bluetooth.

[XemaSab]

5. I email them to myself

:shrug:

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. A feature I would have to enable.

Which is at odds with my general cheapnessitude.

[reyd reid reed]

10. Whether or not it's worth it

Would depend on how much you see yourself using it. I almost didn't. Then realized I don't have a digital camera. I'm lousy when it comes to remembering to take along a regular camera. And I'm even worse about getting rolls of films developed (I have a drawer that probably has 50+ rolls of films in it?).

I enabled it.

[reyd reid reed]

6. It doesn't offer you an upload option?

And can you send picture mail?

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. The email is an extra service.

But I admit I did not look into it too deeply. I should read again about the email thing.

I have not had a cell phone in years.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. I used to email it, before I got a bluetooth phone

With my phone, I can email a picture to anyone and I'm not signed up for internet service. It works just like if I was going to send a picture to another phone #. I have unlimited text & picture messaging now, but before that it only cost $0.25 to send it with Verizon.

[democracyindanger]

12. It ain't easy

You have to check with your provider, and even then you might get a wrong answer and service you don't need. Cingular told me that I could email it, but I had to sign up for email. I did, but couldn't send attachments. Then they told me that I had to sign up for some multimedia thing. I told 'em to forget it.

I did find a third party thing at Best Buy that you can use to transfer pics and ringtones from your computer with a USB connection, but I've been busy and haven't tried it yet.

[MadHound]

14. You don't need to e-mail to yourself

I'm like you, a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to these sorts of things. This is what I did.

First, get the appropriate cable to connect you phone to your computer. Then go to <http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/> and download the program Bitpim. This is a third party program that allows you to download your pictures from your phone, upload pictures, etc. I haven't played with it that much, but from little I have worked with it I can say that it does what I want pretty good.

Good luck.

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. Cool!

I found that this phone does havee the ability to communicate by USB, and found a cable for it on Ebay. Nokia has drivers for this, but the program will also provide some fun. Thanks for the link!

:hi: