Alltel partners with Ontela for PhotoCopter

Alltel Wireless announced an agreement with mobile imaging technologies provider Ontela to debut PhotoCopter, which automatically saves every camera phone image customers snap to their home PCs, email addresses and selected web photo albums including Photobucket, Flickr, Blogger, and Snapfish. According to Ontela, in a typical scenario it requires 100 keystrokes to get 10 photos transferred from a mobile handset to a computer--a recent study conducted by the firm reports 93 percent of camera phone users want to save their pictures to their PC, but only 24 percent actually do so. "You just take the pictures and as if by magic, they appear on your computer in your 'My Pictures' folder," said Ontela CEO Dan Shapiro in a prepared statement. "This is the end of the 'photo graveyard,' where people take pictures and then leave them on the phone until they're deleted. Instead, we've given a new life to these memories by saving them to the places users care about most." PhotoCopter is available to Alltel subscribers with Motorola V3m, V3a, V9m and ROKR devices for $2.99 per month.

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