Have you put your camera to your ear lately?

It seems these days to be a trend that people are putting their little pocket cameras to the ears and talking into it. Of course, this is not your normal Nikon or Olympus SLR sized one. But hey, that may be in someone's product roadmap! I am talking of course about those hand phone cameras - or should we call it a camera phone?

In any case, we have mostly considered the picture-taking capability as an added phone functionality, instead of the 'talking part' added to the camera functionality. So, what does that mean? One way to look at it is that the hand phone is integrating the camera.

So, what do you now want to do with your phone after you take pictures? Store the photo, show off your pictures (or even video) to your friends, post it on YouTube, print it later, send it to a friend across the country, copy it to your friend's phone, and so on.

I have personally even taken a picture of a coffee house in Beijing, send it to a translator to tell me how to pronounce it because I needed to tell someone what it is called - and the translator sends me back the 'pinyin' pronounciation by SMS - all within 3 minutes of me standing in front of the coffee house. Now, that's really cool!