How to Email Photos From a Cellphone

Most of today’s cellular phones do double duty as digital cameras. You meet with friends and family during special occasionsand snap away . Months later, the photos are still sitting in your phone. You want to send them to your friends and family but don’t know how. There is an easy way to email those photos from your cell phone.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Cell phone
• Cellular data plan for email

1. Navigate to the photo gallery in your cell phone. Select the picture you want to email. The process of navigating to your photo gallery will differ depending on the type of cell phone you have. Consult the documents that came with your cell phone.
2. Click Options, then Send. If you have a data plan with your cellular carrier that allows you to use the email features on your cell phone, type the email address in the area provided, as selected from the phonebook or your contact information.
3. Type or insert an optional text message or audio clip. Click Send.

Tips & Warnings

• To email photos from your cell phone, you must have a data plan that permits you to do so. Your cellular provider may not allow your email to go through if you do not have the permission to send email messages. Confirm with your cellular provider that you have this feature. Your cellular provider can add this feature in minutes if you ask them to.
• If you don’t have the data plan, you can still send photos from your Cell Phone. Follow the above steps, but when you send the photos, your cellular provider will send therm using your cell-phone number as part of your email address.
• You can also send the photos from your cell phone by first downloading them to your computer. Connect your cell phone to your computer with a USB cable, infrared port or Bluetooth and email them using your computer.