How do I get the pictures from my camera phone when I switch phones?

A true story recently told at a cocktail party. When a teenage girl was getting a new cell phone, she wanted to save the pictures from the phone. Her mother, lacking a more intuitive option, took the phone to the local Verizon outlet to have them deal with the issue.

There are multiple solutions to this problem and services that let you upload photos from your camera phone. Ibiograph Day in the Life service is easy and works with any camera phone. Beneath this universal simplicity lies an advanced service that puts the pictures of your life into a context that brings immediate enjoyment and creates a lasting autobiography. Send pictures, get a digital book.

Develop once for any mobile phone

About 18 months ago when we started the Ibiograph project we had to decide whether to focus on developing client software for a Mobile OS or developing the functionality we wanted independent of the phone OS. As developers and entrpreneurs focused on mobile we've spent many years evaluating the business case and technology options (Believe it or not on a project in 2001, the decision was whether to focus our UI on color or monochrome screens. Many industry analysts were arguing that monochrome would remain dominant for phones because the marginal utility for color on such a small screen was limited. We chose color). In our last endeavor we developed, maintained, and migrated from Symbian 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 while constantly evaluating Windows, Java, and Linux (phone OS). This time we chose standards, web and messaging as the best way for Ibiograph, the service for making instant pdf photo books from your mobile phone, to help people take advantage of their camera phone.

Jason Grigsby posted a useful slideshow summarizing the tradeoffs and the opportunity for developing at the web interface layer rather than OS.

Native vs. Web vs. Hybrid: Mobile Development Choices

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