According to industry body the Mobile Data Association, more than half the UK’s mobile phone users now have cameraphones. How many of them are actually sending pictures to each other though? Er… not a lot.
To remedy this, the MDA has launched a picture messaging section on its Text.it website, which includes a tutorial, some answers to common questions, and a list of reasons to use picture messaging, including “let Granny see the kids having fun in the park.”
Shouldn’t Granny be in the park with them? And does she even have a mobile phone? Let alone know what to do when a picture message arrives… I shouldn’t poke fun – it’s all useful advice, although I can’t help thinking that photoblogs and other forms of picture sharing might be more accessible to the sort of people the MDA is targeting. For example, more phones preloaded with applications to post photos directly to Flickr.
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