what good is a camera-phone if the pictures are trapped there?

[cellio]

Dear Lazyweb,

My new cell phone comes with a camera. That's not why I bought it (I'm indifferent to cameras), but, well, so long as it's there... But -- how do I get the photos off the phone and to someplace where they can do some good (i.e. my computer)? Asking Google suggests that I buy a cable and some software, assuming I can find some that's compatable with my phone, which so far isn't working out for me.

I know it's possible to post photos to LJ, so I went down that path, but I got blocked on "enter your cell phone's email address in the authorization list" (my cell phone's what? How would I know?), and side-effects of my Google searches suggest that Verizon is going to charge me for that anyway. Is that the case? For those of you who post pictures, what are you doing?

Comments

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

I use my cellphone to email my photos to Flickr which has a setting to auto post pictures to a specified journal.

If you have an account, you can find out your personalized email upload link here: http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/ I send my phone pics to the email given to me under the area that says "Upload to blog?"

Hope this helps.

[cellio]

Thanks. I realized that if I can email photos at all, I can send them to myself (and then I can decide separately whether to post them).