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By Adam Fendelman, About.com Guide to Cell Phones

Call For Photos And Videos Shot With Your Cell Phone

Wednesday July 26, 2006
Millions of camera cell phones in circulation is like millions of photo-opportunities. Did you catch your pets or your child in a funny moment thanks to having your cell phone at hand? Got a shot of that unique natural phenomenon this summer?

I want to give you the opportunity to share your photos and videos with hundreds of thousands of users. Send me pictures or videos that were made possible because you had a cell phone. Send them at cellphones.guide@about.com. If your photo or video is selected, I'll contact you with more detail. Thanks!

Eric

Comments

July 26, 2006 at 2:17 am
(1) PM Mothiram says:

Mr.Eric
To which address I must send the sequence of pictures I shot with my cell phone from a close range.

July 26, 2006 at 2:19 am
(2) PM Mothiram says:

I am glad you are providing opportunity for viewer’s feed back. A highly positive source for consumer opinion.

July 30, 2006 at 6:48 pm
(3) Marc Miller says:

My wife bought the LG VX5200 recently, and being the technical guy in the family, I helped her customize it.

The VX5200 definitely takes some getting used to. It works great as a regular phone, but if you use any of the more advanced features (SMS, MMS, voice-activated functions, wallpaper, web, etc.) it does take some amount of digging and memorization of the menus. Where to find things is not always intuitive. In particular, the voice feature is hard to use or at least poorly documented in the manual. I stumbled on this web site while trying to figure out if there was an easier way. We programmed it so that when she opens her phone, she is automatically prompted to speak what she wants the phone to do. To call her friend Nancy on her Kyocera Phantom phone, she needed only to push a button, and say “Nancy home” to call Nancy’s home number. By following the manual, the conversation required to call Nancy at home is more like this:

Phone: “What would you like to do?”
Caller: “Call someone”
Phone: “Who would you like to call”
Caller: “Nancy”
Phone: “You would like to call Nancy, is that right?”
Caller: Yes
Phone: “Would you like to call Nancy at mobile?”
Caller: No
Phone: “Would you like to call Nancy at work?”
Caller: No
Phone: “Would you like to call Nancy at home?”
Caller: Yes
Phone: Calling Nancy at home.

The phone does train on words like “home” “work” and “mobile” so there has to be a way to say “Call Nancy home” without it complaining, but so far, that’s our chief complaint about the LG VX5200. Otherwise it’s a fairly decent phone.

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