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Buying a new phone and transmitting pictures
Harvey Levine, Photographer
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Harrisburg | PA | | Posted: 8:33 PM on 07.05.08 |
| ->> I am considering the new LG Dare for Verizon or switching to ATT and getting the new I-phone. I hv an occasional need to transmit photos from the field from my MAC Book pro. Can I do this with either phone without buying one of these $40 or $60 a month plans. If so, how? Any suggestions on which phone you would buy. I'm with Verizon now but my contract is at the end. Thoughts or suggestions. |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Plainfield | IL | USA | Posted: 9:14 PM on 07.05.08 |
->> Harvey - You'll need an FTP program to run non your phone (several are available) and also some way to get the photos onto the phone in the first place. Inexplicably, even in the 2nd gen iPhone, there is no SD or CF card slot so you'd have to send the files via Bluetooth file transfer (slow) or hook up the iPhone via USB to your laptop.
I don't now about the LG Dare.
Or, are you saying you'd like to use the phone as a cell phone modem? I've been trying to figure this out with my Treo 750 (Windows Mobile) and PowerBook (via USB and Bluetooth - I read somewhere that Bluetooth is the only way it would work with Mac OS) for three months with no luck, and AT&T is totally, utterly and completely useless when it comes to trying to get help. As soon as you say the word "Macintosh" they start giving you the company line that this and that won't work with Mac OS. I even had to buy a third party app to get Active Sync to work.
I've posted several threads on here asking if anyone has gotten their Treo 750 to work as a modem with Mac OS and not gotten a single reply.
Another alternative is something called Pocket Phojo which looked really cool, but I don't know how current the developer has kept it, and IIRC, the phones it would work on were pretty limited (Pocket PC only, I think):
http://www.idruna.com/pocketphojo.html
It allows you to edit, crop, caption and even transmit directly from your phone/PDA. Of course, you still have to get the files into the phone. Last time I checked, they weren't planning on introducing a version for the iPhone (still have that issue with getting the files onto the iPhone) but with the issuance of the iPhone SDK, maybe that will change.
There were a bunch of threads on here quite a while back when Phojo was first released but the buzz has been quiet for a long time. |
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Gil Batzri, Photographer, Assistant
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Oakland | CA | USA | Posted: 10:44 PM on 07.05.08 |
->> Harvey,
I think you are going to be stuck with an expensive (data) plan for your phone no matter what phone you decide to go with. Some of the plans have minimal data included with voice, but if you are using it to file photos you will go WAY over the limit on your third photo and start getting metered rates for data (20 cents per KB transmitted) I would HIGHLY recommend an unlimited data plan. Sprint I THINK has the cheapest available. (I think it was $15 or $20/mo)
What you need to be able to do (whatever the phone) is to "tether" the phone to your mac, and use the phone as a conduit to the internet.
Most phones can handle this, the setup is generally a bit different, I have a sprint blackberry worldphone and I have used it with my MBP as a data modem, you basically set it up as a bluetooth modem, and then connect the phone to the mac via bluetooth and then start the modem connection, just like you used to when there was an actual dialup modem.
I believe the iPhone can manage that, but some of the apple honks would need to jump in and let you know that for sure.
I would definitely recommend you get a 3G or better 3.5G phone for this kind of thing, the EDGE phone (older phones and 1st Gen iPhone) are miserable to transmit with (usually 5k/sec or thereabouts)
If you need AT&T specific help or info contact me, my little brother works at AT&T corporate and is a PDA specialist, I can probably connect you up with him if you have specific Q's about what they have available.
PocketPhojo is a very cool tool if you are looking to eliminate the laptop from your workflow, it is basically light edit/select/caption/file tool that will run on a pocketpc. It was initially designed for PDAs more then smartphone type pocketPCs, and you tethered it to a phone for your data connection, I suspect it will run on the bulkier PocketPC (touchscreen) phones, the problem is getting your files onto the device to edit them.
Most smartphones have moved away from SD card expansion slots, which was a handy way to bring your photos onboard the device. Which makes it more difficult to get the photos onto the device
Looking at the Idruna site they support most of the newest phones, but you need to get over the "getting the photos in" hurdle.
The guys at idruna are really nice and have a discount and free trial if you want to try the software out. But that is a far cry from tethering and filing from your laptop. (but you can leave the mac at home) Phojo appears to be around $400 for the software and they offer hardware/software combos.
Does that clear the air any for you? |
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Tom Morris, Photographer
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West Monroe | LA | USA | Posted: 11:07 PM on 07.05.08 |
->> I have edited HS game shots at half, copied them to the mini-SD card inserted into my PC with an adapter. Then put the mini-SD storage card back in my AT&T Tilt and transmitted the photos as attachments to individual emails. It was fairly slow, but they got three photos midway through the 3rd quarter while I continued to walk up and down the sidelines to shoot the rest of the game.
I expect the recent introduction of 3rd Generation by AT&T in our area to speed things up on the Tilt.. . . and the new iPhones. |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 11:39 PM on 07.05.08 |
->> The Palm Treo phones (don't know about their cheaper Centros) have SD slots. And you can get ftp software for the treos. So you could copy your photos to a SD card, pop the card into the Treo and transmit.
The iPhone doesn't have either SD slots or (as far as I know) ftp software. You could still bluetooth the photos to the phone and then email the photos.
jack |
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Mark Smith, Photographer
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Elk City | OK | USA | Posted: 12:28 AM on 07.06.08 |
->> I don't know how it would work at a busy venue, but I just bought the Samsung Instinct for Sprint. I can bluetooth to the phone and transmit at decent speed. I have the $99 Simply Everything plan. I don't use it often, but if in a jam, it will be nice to have. Last year, during the NCAA Hoops Tourney, it would have been nice to have it. No way I was going to pay what the NCAA was charging for broadband, and even if I couldn't have used the Sprint system in the venue, it would have been nice to know that I could use it on the way back to my hotel.
I love the Instinct. I've not played with an iPhone much, but I've been loyal to Sprint for many years, and was happy when they introduced this phone. |
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Mark Smith, Photographer
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Elk City | OK | USA | Posted: 12:47 AM on 07.06.08 |
| ->> I should clarify that. I am using bluetooth to use the phone as a modem. I'm not sending the files to the phone and then transmitting. I tried this on another phone by saving to an sd card and putting them on my phone. Somehow, in the mix, they got resized to 72 dpi and were not usable. |
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Nathan Papes, Student/Intern
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Springfield | MO | United States | Posted: 3:11 PM on 07.06.08 |
| ->> I just got the Lg Dare. I don't like it. I keep accidentally hanging up on people because of the poorly placed end call button. I'm going back to a blackberry sometime next week |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 3:41 PM on 07.06.08 |
->> I have the Verizon Blackberry 8830 and have been able to do this using Bluetooth and my MAC but now have the $60 plan which I find faster
I also have Phojo on my HPAC PDA..an older one |
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Michael Troutman, Photographer
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Carmel | CA | USA | Posted: 4:20 PM on 07.06.08 |
->> I'm using a Treo 650 as a wireless modem (tethered via USB) with unlimited data from AT&T. The program you need for Palm is PDA Net: http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/
To use this on a Mac you'll also need VM Ware Fusion and Windoze XP. I've set this up as well and it works great. You can update your website, transmit files, email, and browse the web normally (just slower than cable/DSL, but faster than dial-up).
I'm curious about how the iPhone works as a wireless modem; if it performs well I intend to upgrade to it at some point. Anyone have experience with this? The Treo is fine as a modem, but sometimes bombs out unless it's plugged in to a power source. Treos are buggy anyway, but mine has worked great as a modem for years. |
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