Article in the Guardian about the unexpected ways in which cameraphones are taking off with the public:
What has become clear is that the phones are being used in a different way than intended. Instead of people sending pictures between phones, those who have bought a MMS-compatible phone are more likely to email images to themselves or share them using small networks like Bluetooth or infrared. “It seems to be less person-to-person messaging. We are seeing quite a few examples of people taking photographs and uploading them to the web,” explains Mike Short, chair of the Mobile Data Association, an industry consortium that issues figures for text messaging and the mobile internet… People are beginning to find practical uses for the new phones. Women are using their phones to take images of taxi drivers. Receivers of faulty goods are snapping the damage and sending the images to the company. People hiring cars are taking pictures of scratches before they drive off. At the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, south Wales, junior doctors are using mobiles to send pictures of x-rays.
When you think about, none of this should come as a surprise. The easier and more convenient you make it for people to carry around a camera with them wherever they go, they more they’re going to integrate them into their lives and start using them in unpredictable ways.
Read [Via PicturePhoning.com]
