[sclug] phones, photos and PC's

[Neil Haughton]

Thanks all for the various bits of advice. It doesn't sound like 
something I can setup and support from 6000miles away!

>
>
> All that said, the nicest way to get the photos off is to go on 
> holiday, take a nice picture and email it straight from the phone (I 
> was in Australia recently and took a cracking picture of the Sydney 
> Opera House and Harbour Bridge -- 
> http://www.plig.net/~mince/k750i.jpg, if you're interested; grainy but 
> the phone can resize down to 640x480 when you email it -- it was about 
> 6pm and it arrived in my work colleagues' mailboxes ready for the 9am 
> start!).
>

That sounds a smart way to do it, with possibly the least extra outlay 
on bits to plug in or install - but how does one email from a mobile? 
Are we talking WAP here? I presume that the phone needs to be setup with 
account details of ISP etc, rather like an MUA such as Kmail or 
whatever? With no a camera-sporting mobile to hand I am working a bit in 
the dark.

But thanks to everyone for responding to this decidedly off-topic question.

Along similar lines, has anyone had decent results with Skype? I tried 
it to a landline (SkypeOut or whatever it is), and the quality was 
appalling - my correspondent on the landline end complained that his 
voice was echoed badly with a couple of seconds' latency, making it 
pretty difficult to hold a conversation (because his echo overlaid my 
reply) so we ended up doing a lot of 'Roger Roger' and 'Over and Out' 
stuff, which takes me back to shortwave radio and is jolly nostalgic but 
hardly modern comms. Is this echo effect (and talking-down-a-pipe effect 
too) something we can look forward too when VoIP takes off in the 
consumer market, I wonder?

Neil.