Cell Phone Cameras with USB that don't require web access

Greetings,

It would be convenient to have a cell phone that included a camera for
various reasons.

However, SPRINT says you need to have Web access with them. I have no
desire to read email on my phone, and certainly not to pay an extra $15
a month.

Are there phones that have a USB connections and don't require web access.

Thanks.

 

Who cares!

Digital Cameras, Scanners and Printers have USB connections.

Any phone is just a bloody nuisance.

Roy G

 

Yikes, talk about unhelpful and unprovoked anger from Tesco News. I
hope he gets his meds balanced pretty soon.

Motorola and Samsung (and probably others) have phones that take memory
cards that you stick into a card reader. The new ones are Transflash
and the older ones were mini-SD or something like that.

Many will also take a data cable to transfer between your computer and
camera (oops, I mean phone).

 

I think nearly every phone with a camera will provide you with a means of
getting the photos off, whether it will be IR, bluetooth, USB or memory
card.

What might be the problem is that your provider is only giving out those
phones with the special contract, rather than the phones physically being
unable to do it.

 

Hi all.

I am not on any meds,

I am just naturally a Grumpy Old Git, even before I got old.

I have a phone, and need it for business.

I even have a cell phone, but I don't like phones. My cell phone only makes
and receives phone calls. It might be able to text, but I have never
bothered finding out. It certainly can not take photos or get Email.

I hate getting phone calls from people I do not know, who want to sell me
something I don't want or need. If they should happen to be promoting
anything to do with telecommunications I get extremely rude. I also happen
to think that Call Centres were designed specifically to create and spread
Mental Illnesses, and probably have a lot to do with the increasing suicide
rates.

As for all those people who go about with a phone stuck permanently to their
ear, are they aware that in order to work on a Cell Phone Mast, the Techs
must wear Radiation Detectors.

I dread the day when every new Camera and new Car will have a built in
phone.

Roy G

 

I understand and respect your position. In fact, I downloaded a
ringtone for my cell phone that sounds like a real phone ringing
because I wanted my phone to sound like a phone (to which the kids said
"why would you want a phone that sounds like that?"

But the world is changing. Even you switched from film to digital, so
you can't be too stuck in the past! I bet you even have a touchtone
phone instead of calling Clara down in Central every time you want to
place a call.

But the OP had a question. There's no need to be nasty just for the
sake of being nasty. If you didn't care about the question or the
answer, why not just go on to the next post?

As for "who cares?". Well, Beach Runner cares and I care and Scott
cares and probably a bunch of other people.

Why not take your skill, talent and experience and help out newbies
other people who have questions -- like you have been helped in the
past -- instead of posting useless nonsense, correcting grammar, etc.
Otherwise, we will all start splitting infinitives just to greatly
annoy you

Stay well.

Pat.

 

Yes, the Motorola V220, and the V551 both can connect to USB with
suitable cables.

 

I suspect that many people will disagree with you on that. They are one
of the most convenient electronic items I use.

 

Roy,
Perhaps you need to find a cave in a remote area, drive there, and
push the car off into a ravine. BTW, haven't you listed your numbers in
the 'do not call' registry? If not, do it now.

 

You can buy the USB kit (includes software) from electronics stores, such as
Fry's.
It used to cost around $80 a year ago.

 

Hi.

Of course I have registered my number for "No Sales Calls", but the bastards
still keep phoning, and witholding their number. And you can't make official
complaints without the offenders number.

It is only phones that I don't like.

I quite like my car. But if one ever came fitted with an In Car Phone, my
opinion might change.

I am not aware of attempting to correct anyones Grammar.

I might have made remarks about American's inability to use cutlery, and
their weird taste in politicians, but Grammar - no way.

Roy G

 

Don't know where you live, but in the US, it seems like there's a
commercial every 15 minutes for cars with On-star or ones that do
self-diagnostics and then email the results to you. Built in phones
are here.

http://www.onstar.com/

Better keep the oil changed in your old alopy. You might need to hang
on to it for a few more years.

If you want to be scared, don't worry about car phones -- go look at
what info the OBD-II in your car tracks. With a simple upgrade from
the parts store, it makes one hell of a way to spy on someone. Even
without the upgrade, it's a little Big Brother-ish.

 

OnStar is just cellphone technology; we bought a new GM vehicle, and
got one year of OnStar for free, but the only thing we woul duse it
for is an emergency. We have cell phones that are far less expensive.
The service can be turned off any time, or otherwise just not used.
It's expensive fro what it is, given the alternatives.

 

Hi BR,

I just sold a nice Nokia 6682, which has a 1.2 or 1.3 megapixel camera
built in. The phone includes the cable and software, which a lot of the
other companies charge upwards of $100 for. Pictures of- and by- the
phone can be seen at
http://hodgkins.smugmug.com/gallery/1197773

This cell works with Cingular. As I understand it, in their never
ending greed, Verizon Wireless takes perfectly fine phones, such as the
Motorola e815, which Should have the ability to download pictures
directly to a computer either with bluetooth or a cable, and disables
that capability to force the user to transfer the files thru the
cellular network, which they charge for.

The 6682 is a great phone/PDA. In good light it can take a decent
picture (and video) if you can hold the thing still. In low light,
lacking a real xenon flash (it uses ultrabright LEDs instead) the
results aren't too good.

Hope this helps,
Ben

 

I don't believe I mentioned grammar, so what are you going on about?
I have no problem using cutlery, and can eat in the European manner, if
required (can use chopsticks too), but find the American method more
comfortable. As for weird politicians, I thought 'weird' was a
prerequisite for politicians...