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

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

I got the cable. It wasn't the genuine Nokia cable, but an after-market one that was about 1/3 the price and did the same job. The software was one that came with Linux, Kamera I think it's called, although there are other bits of software that can do it. Most phones have a USB cable that can plug into a PC, and when it does that the phone will ask you whether you want to use it in "data storage mode". If you say yes to that then the phone works like a USB disk, you can just use your favourite file manager to drag and drop the photos off the phone onto whatever directory on your PC you want them on.

[cellio]

Cool! Thanks.