Boston Globe article on some new ways that business people are using cameraphones for their work, like real estate agents who use them to instantly email photos of properties to clients, used car salesmen, and contractors who are giving them to their construction crews:
[Newton contractor Bob Pino] bought his four picture phones a month ago to maintain constant visual contact with members of his crew who are working in distant towns. ”Before picture phones, if one of my guys had an unexpected problem, he would call me and try to explain it,” he said. ”Most of the time, I’d have to drive over to look at it. Now he just sends me a picture.” Last week, for example, one of Pino’s crews working in Winthrop discovered a broken drain pipe in a wall. Pino, in Newton at the time, requested a cellphone picture instead of driving over to examine the situation. Within minutes the Winthrop crew was proceeding with updated instructions from Pino.
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