# Getting photos from cell phone to computer
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349 "2007-09-24T20:58:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/1 "2007-09-24T20:58:10Z")
My Pix messaging doesn’t allow the entering of anything but phone numbers. I tried using the limited web connection for email, but it doesn’t seem to allow attachements. I don’t have bluetooth or a USB cable.
I have a Razor (Verizon). What are my options? I figured that someone would have come up with the idea of a forwarding service. Send a Pix message to their phone number and they will forward them to your email address. Google turned up nothing. Does such a service exist?
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### Author:  [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/2 "2007-09-24T21:03:37Z")
Does your phone have a micro SD slot? Verizon enforces a pretty consistent user interface across all the phones they sell. So your Razor works a lot like my LG phone. I can move the pictures from phone memory to card memory and then remove the card and read that into a PC.
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### Author:  [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/3 "2007-09-24T21:04:35Z")
You can send a picture message to any email address you want. No forwarding service required. Just type an email address into the “to:” field.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/4 "2007-09-24T21:14:25Z")
[QUOTE=wasson]
You can send a picture message to any email address you want. No forwarding service required. Just type an email address into the “to:” field.
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That’s what I do.
Are you trying it correctly? Go to the TO: field and change it from numbers to letters. On my (LG) phone, there’s a thing at the bottom of the screen that says 123, click it and change it to abc and you should be good to go.
Otherwise, yeah, Pix message them to a friends phone who can then email them to you, but that’ll be time consuming.
Another thing, if you have alot of them save your email address as a contact and then you can just pull it up from the contact list instead of typing it in each time.
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### Author:  [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/5 "2007-09-25T00:49:13Z")
What you need are the folliowing
1. Mini USB to USB Cable (Comes with many common Digital Cameras or can be purchased on E-bay)
2. Motorola Drivers from [Метка: Мелбет Казахстан | Мелбет приложение](http://hacktherazr.com/guide.setup.usb.html)
3. BitPim [http://www.bitpim.org/](http://www.bitpim.org/)
4. Read this site [Mark\_Venture's Verizon Phone Info Page](http://mark.cdmaforums.com/V710_BitPim.htm) pay attention to the section marked “Wall Papers or Pictures… In BitPim Under Media -\> Images…”
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### Author:  [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/6 "2007-09-25T05:36:26Z")
**Joey P** got it. There was a way to change from numeric entry to alpha entry. I had looked in options for this method. Just didn’t look in the appropriate place. Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-photos-from-cell-phone-to-computer/420349/7 "2007-09-25T05:56:50Z")
[QUOTE=Shai’tan]
My Pix messaging doesn’t allow the entering of anything but phone numbers. I tried using the limited web connection for email, but it doesn’t seem to allow attachements. I don’t have bluetooth or a USB cable.
I have a Razor (Verizon). What are my options? I figured that someone would have come up with the idea of a forwarding service. Send a Pix message to their phone number and they will forward them to your email address. Google turned up nothing. Does such a service exist?
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i noticed you mentioned that you dont have bluetooth, you should invest in a dongle as they are fairly cheap, if Verizon has not disabled the bluetooth object exchange, I just transfered about 16 photos and three vids from my razr about a few minutes ago , with bluetooth.
Declan