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That’s a delicious feature, almost handier than sending a photo by email. After<br />

all, your friends and relatives don’t sit in front of their <strong>com</strong>puters all day and all<br />

night (unless they’re serious geeks).<br />

Alas, the <strong>iPhone</strong> is one of the very few phones that can’t send or receive MMS<br />

messages (multimedia messaging service), the technology required for this<br />

trick. Officially speaking, you can send photos only as email attachments. And<br />

very few cellphones can receive email, let alone with attachments.<br />

Apple says that there’s no philosophical reason that the <strong>iPhone</strong> doesn’t offer<br />

MMS messaging, and hints that it may add this feature in an <strong>iPhone</strong> software<br />

update.<br />

Most photo-sharing sites, like Flickr.<strong>com</strong> and Snapfish.<strong>com</strong>, let you send photos<br />

from a cameraphone directly to the Web by email. For example, Flickr will give you<br />

a private email address for this purpose (visit www.flickr.<strong>com</strong>/account/uploadbyemail<br />

to find out what it is). The big ones, including Flickr, also offer special <strong>iPhone</strong><br />

add-on programs (Chapter 11) that make uploading easier.<br />

Keep in mind that this system isn’t as good as syncing your camera shots back to<br />

your Mac or PC, because emailed photos get scaled down to 640 x 480 pixels—a<br />

very low resolution <strong>com</strong>pared with the 1600 x 1200 originals.<br />

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Chapter 5

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