As camera phones have become mainstream, wireless phone users are looking for new, creative ways to communicate with pictures. Sprint PCS Picture Mail Groups is the next innovation in the mobile imaging evolution, enabling customers to create a forum where they can communicate via pictures, video clips, text messages and audio clips while on the go.

Solutions like these are changing the way camera phones are used everyday. At first, camera phones were primarily looked at as a fun way to instantly send spontaneous pictures. While camera phones are still widely used this way, people are also using them when they plan to take pictures to stay connected with friends and family and for practical applications such as to comparison shop, for scrap booking, to keep a picture diary and to improve business productivity. Camera phone usage will continue to grow as Picture Mail is integrated with other consumer and business applications that will make sharing, managing, preserving, creating, and presenting more convenient and easier than ever.

Those experiences really aren't great on wireless phones right now.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

This could be devastating to the users who are about to be turned off, but they should have switched phones and networks by now. It won't be as many as you think. Many will switch in the last few days of the month. I'd say the first week or two of January will be very busy in their stores and the stores of the competitors.

Sprint PCS' wireless network is one of the last keys filling one of the last holes in MCI's network.