Sharing photos from your Palm Centro or Treo

How many times have you taken a great picture on your smartphone that was never seen by anyone but you? Most people don’t realize how easy it is to share mobile photos online, but there are a number of ways to do it, such as uploading pictures directly to online photo sharing sites like Flickr. Just use your Palm smartphone’s Internet connection to go to Flickr’s mobile webpage (http://m.flickr.com/), and either create an account or use your existing account to upload photos, descriptions and tags very easily.

Palm Centro and Treo smartphones can also help you share photos through:

• MMS - send pictures and videos along with text to your mobile contacts 
• Email - send pictures by attaching to messages using the email clients on your device 
• Bluetooth - share pictures with other Bluetooth-enabled devices 
• Memory cards - Palm smartphones support memory cards up to 4GB
  

-Paul Loeffler

Comments

[Christopher Price]

I've read one too many of these type of posts from the Palm blog.

Time for me to speak up.

People reading the Official Palm Blog generally aren't interested in these type of general-info posts. Your typical reader is well aware of all the ways to send photos from a Palm device.

What we're interested in, is hearing from Palm about the things that there aren't other outlets to speak out on... maintenance releases, issues, improvements, updates. The typical reader of Palm's Blog is interested in cutting edge information.

This was info that led the Palm Blog when it was launched... now there isn't one such article on the blog's front page.

For example, I don't care once about what PC World thinks about Garnet. I do care about why Palm won't update the Treo 700wx to Windows Mobile 6.

Palm, wise up with your blog. It's a good starting point for taking a holistic look at how your company communicates with its most savvy customers.

[Jason]

"Palm smartphones support memory cards up to 4GB"

Really? I thought my Treo 700wx only went to 2GB.

[Tom]

Too bad the MMS (on Verizon) does not work to send pictures. I went through 3 - 4 phones (both 700 and 755 P’s) which all had the same problem. They would send maybe 10% of my MMS. They would get to 10% - 20% complete and then would die and go to my outbox. I would get a network error message even though I was at full signal strength. It would even do it in the Verizon store for technical support. They acknowledged it was a problem and would give me a new phone which never was the correct diagnosis. There is something with their network and MMS. I would be able send the same picture through email just after receiving a network error message using the MMS function so I know I had good connectivity.

I gave up trying to figure out what was wrong, dropped messaging and just use email now which seems to be more stable. This must be very frustrating for customers who do not want to pay the high price for a data plan. I have noticed others having similar problems in the online Palm forums so I know it is not isolated. I am sure Palm must have heard something about this. If they haven’t, no wonder their warranty costs keep escalating; Verizon is replacing phones that from my perspective can never be fixed.

[Clarendon Condos -- J]

With Sprint I cannot upload photos on the fly with Facebook because they use a link to a webpage of the photo when sending photos from the phone. Verizon would allow me to upload photos to Facebook spontaneously so I'm outta here Sprint--grow up...come into today's world instead of living in the past!

Which will get here first TREO 800 or Agendus Premier for Blackberry? Which ever comes first is what I'm buying. Mr. & Mrs. Palm, once agendus comes out for blackberry you're going to lose a lot treonauts unless you get treo 800 out there quick....

jay

[Mary]

What other photo sharing sites are available? Anyone know?

[JohnnieC]

People, doubtful they will be talking about significant details for the new OS for quite some time. I've had a Treo since the 600 and I didn't realize you can upload photos to Flickr. Maybe I am an idiot and maybe not. Anyways, I appreciated the information. Please don't assume that because you know something that everyone else does as well.

Peace.

[Rui Castro]

I Have a Treo 650 and have a bit more quality with the camera I use PhotosHQ. This said, when is Palm going to use better cameras, here in Europe Nokias are at 3mp to 5mp and some with flash and special lens. And Palm is still way behide.

Please wake up. Thank you

[Harold]

Actually, Treo 755p's can read and write to 8g SDHC cards as well. They don't properly read the free space on the card, but they can handle them quite easily.

Of course, you're the 'official' blog, so you wouldn't dare say that, would you?