How to Sync Camera Phone Photos to your Computer

Taking pictures with your mobile phone's camera is a lot more exciting if you can easily transfer, view and manipulate the photos on your computer. When you sync photos taken with your camera phone to your computer, you can send images to families and friends as well as keep copies for your own personal photo album.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Camera phone
• Data sync cable
• Computer

1. Purchase a data sync cable and synchronization software. Some recent camera phone models come with these accessories.

2. Install the synchronization software on your computer. Close out other programs before you begin the installation to keep problems to a minimum.
   

3. Take some pictures with your camera phone. Try a couple of test shots, just so you have some picture files to practice with.

4. Connect your phone to your computer. With your data sync cable, connect the computer to your camera phone

5. Open the sync software installed in your computer, and then download the picture files on the camera phone to your computer. Make sure that the pictures are being transferred correctly.

6. Disconnect the camera phone from your computer after you have finished adding the pictures to your computer’s hard drive.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure the data sync cable and cell phone syncing software are compatible with both your phone and computer. Also make sure the software supports trading picture files between the two devices.
• Sync your camera phone often to free up more memory for more pictures. Also make back-up copies from the files on your computer.
• Do not disconnect the camera phone from the computer until the sync is finished. You may lose transferred files forever.

[jasonology]

on 10/8/2008 This article is to vague. It needs some examples, and it completely neglects to mention doing this wirelessly via Bluetooth.