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An old friend, Justin Hall,

An old friend, Justin Hall, writes about photologs, flash crowds, cam-phones and their meaning.

Sha-mail is hot in Japan

Sha-mail is hot in Japan

Sha-mail is sending digital images to and from mobile handsets. It's taking off in Japan (naturally) where J-Phone
is the leading carrier. (I believe 'sha' means 'photo' in Japanese.) Here's a general description of Sha-mail and set of sample images.

DoCoMo was already having trouble with its transition from iMode to 3G, now these guys are stealing subscribers with sha-mail using their CDMA enabled networks.

Just like iMode showed the world that 'mobile Internet' was really about communications (and marketing), sha-mail is pointing the way to what real people will do with more bandwidth.