Options For Sending Photos From iPhone

A few months ago I posted on a sort of work-around for sending photos via SMS.

Since then things have evolved considerably.

The big news is that Apple says that the new iPhone OS 3.0 will have a new multimedia messaging feature (MMS) that will let users send text message photos, calendar invites, and even contacts to another phone.

There are still other options. A few below.

First, an app emerged called Infinite SMS that was built on top of Google's Google Talk text messaging service. The app cost 99 cents and had tremendous early success. Unfortunately for the Infinite SMS folks, it wasn't from Google and in March 2009 Google put a stop to it.

"Infinite SMS is a third party app that has been using Google technology to provide free SMS to users, while we were paying for the cost of the text messages,"

a Google spokesman explained.

Flutter is a free app that claims to allow you to,

"Send unlimited picture messages and geo-tagged location to most mobile phones in the world. Have the convenience of sending multi-media messages (MMS) to virtually any mobile phone number in your iPhone contact book.

* Send picture messages from your iPhone.
* Your message can (optionally) include a link to your location pinned on Google Maps.
* Friends get a link to view your pictures and location right on their cell phones."

There are a few that specialize in sending photos directly to websites.

Another free app called Eye-Fi allows you to send a photo to your machine or to image sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa directly from your phone, bypassing the sync requirement.

Another one that costs $4.99 as of this writing called PixelCast allows you to send photos directly to your blog, MySpace page, Facebook page, etc.

One called Radar does all that and more, including bringing *in* photos from your webpage as well as sending out. Click here for an impressive review.

-Forsyth