help beta test new feature by sending camera phone picture

Hi All,

I posted a similar message before and was met with some skepticism on
part of people naturally wary about "generic requests". People were
skeptical before because the e-mail address did not have any
accompanying website associated with it. The new e-mail address below
for submissions should address that issue.

We are looking to test a feature we are working on here that will take
a photo sent to an e-mail address from a camera phone (smart phone, or
PDA) and post that photo into a user's account (similar to a moblog
except that we are syncing these in an application not just posting
them).

So if you have a camera phone and would like to help, please send a
photo to the following e-mail address:

[email protected]

For the skeptical or just plain curious you can see that there is a
site associated with this domain. You can even sign up for a trial
account if you want to see the software.

Thanks for any help with testing,

Paul

---

› See More: help beta test new feature by sending camera phone picture

Just a personal opinion. Your site seems fairly legit, but since I didn't
sign up for your service, I am a bit wary of sending you a msg w/ my cell
phone number. If you are really developing new software, I think your
company needs to plan some budget on subscribing to different services for
testing purposes. This makes your company seems very... low budget. If you
must go for this free data route, then maybe you can run to local
Verizon/Sprint/Cingular/ATT stores and "test" their phones by sending
yourself some msgs... Plus, providers may change their msg format any time,
no one can gurantee how good your test data is going to be.

"Paul" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi All,
>
> I posted a similar message before and was met with some skepticism on
> part of people naturally wary about "generic requests". People were
> skeptical before because the e-mail address did not have any
> accompanying website associated with it. The new e-mail address below
> for submissions should address that issue.
>
> We are looking to test a feature we are working on here that will take
> a photo sent to an e-mail address from a camera phone (smart phone, or
> PDA) and post that photo into a user's account (similar to a moblog
> except that we are syncing these in an application not just posting
> them).
>
> So if you have a camera phone and would like to help, please send a
> photo to the following e-mail address:
>
> [email protected]
>
> For the skeptical or just plain curious you can see that there is a
> site associated with this domain. You can even sign up for a trial
> account if you want to see the software.
>
> Thanks for any help with testing,
>
> Paul

> Just a personal opinion. Your site seems fairly legit, but since I didn't
> sign up for your service, I am a bit wary of sending you a msg w/ my cell
> phone number.

That's understandable I guess. I can't really offer any assurances
that a skeptical person would be likely to believe other than our
company is listed with the Better Business Bureau and we are not
storing any personal information from these test messages. Just
looking at the headers and seeing how the image is embedded or
attached.

If you are really developing new software, I think your
> company needs to plan some budget on subscribing to different services for
> testing purposes. This makes your company seems very... low budget.

Yes we are trying to develop this with little or no budget. Signing up
for plans with the major providers is fairly expensive especially for
a feature that is not core to our application--just a nice extra. As
it is now each new feature or expenditure needs to have an
identifiable return on investment associated with it. Perhaps if
digital cameras in phones outstrip stand-alone digital cameras, (which
stats seem to indicate will happen within a few years), then we will
be forced to add a bank of camera phones with various carrier plans to
our QA lab. Until then, this is a shoestring budget item.

If you must go for this free data route, then maybe you can run to
local
> Verizon/Sprint/Cingular/ATT stores and "test" their phones by sending
> yourself some msgs... Plus, providers may change their msg format any time,
> no one can gurantee how good your test data is going to be.

We have already done this as well but thanks for the suggestion. We
are just trying to test as many messages as possible to see if there
are phones or carriers that we need to list as "not supported", or if
we are missing something major.

Paul