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[prog]

And now you know what today's project was.

Went ahead and wrote my own Perl script, though I'm sure plenty of these exist already. CPAN Modules used:

• Mime::Parser
• LJ::Simple
• Image::Magick::Thumbnail

I may post it somewhere if I get around to fixing an embarrassing hack (based on my apparent nongrokking of umask()). If you want to see it before then, go ahead and ask.

Observations:

• Image quality is, offically, shitty. Of course it's kinda what I was expecting (it's a phone that can take pictures, not a dedicated camera), but to actually see it: eh. Not convinced that there aren't better models in the same price range, but this was an utterly unresearched purchase, so them's my cookies, ma.
• Typing is easier than I thought it'd be. The default mode for typing text messages lets you just key in the numeric pattern for each word, and the phone's internal dictionary guesses what word is the one you most likely wanted, from the possible combinations. If it guesses wrong, you can see the whole list of possible words, and select the correct one (or define a new word). It looks like it doesn't do this contextually, or does so imperfectly, hence "where I an" (which I didn't notice at the time).
• Another reason to regret not thinking this purchase through: no GPS! I mean, really; these posts need to have attached global coordinates. Maybe next year.

Comments

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

The photos are very webcam-esque. But both samples you've posted have been taken indoors, in low(er) lighting, where even (some) regular digicams don't work as well. Are the outside photos any sharper?

GPS

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

Most phones that advertise GPS don't advertise the fact that the information that's gathered is not useful to the phone in any way, shape, or form. It's used in conjunction with the towers to provide coordinates to Global Dominantion.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

you can, of course, return the phone. Most cell companies will let you return and cancel within the first week, two weeks, or a month, depending on the company.