Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day is:
Andrew Grill writes:
I was one of those responsible for the 45% increase in traffic – Shozu (should that be snozu?) for uploads to Flickr via E71 and Shozu
And if you’d like to view more of Andrew’s London Snow pictures, get’em here.
Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day is from me, Ewan.
I confidently asserted over the weekend that ‘this Snow alert rubbish will be over in a day’.
Rare is it for the South East of the UK to be trapped under snow for more than a day.
And surprise, surprise, the snow is melting this morning and, apart from some annoying bits of ice, that’s it. Show’s over folks. On with the rest of our lives.
But I did take this picture whilst driving through Billericay on Sunday evening. You could be forgiven for thinking that the photo was take somewhere in Russia. Or Prague. But no, it was Billericay, Essex.
Thus I also contributed quite significantly to the 45% uplift in traffic that ShoZu saw yesterday.
Snapped with my trusty Nokia N95 8GB.
Rome. We’re off to Rome tomorrow morning at the unlikely time of 7.30am. Unlikely because I suspect we’d all very much rather be in bed at that time on a Saturday morning. Let alone having to worry about being at the airport two hours before.
The MIR Show team is heading to Rome to produce January’s show and you can find more details about that here.
Over the weekend we’re going to be showing off the best of ShoZu. That is, we’ll be saying ’screw it’ to our roaming data bills (I *must* dig out my 3UK sim card… where is it?) and doing ShoZu uploads big time.
My handset of choice happens to be the most popular handset with ShoZu installed: iPhone.
I reckon that the iPhone camera will be fine in bright sunny Rome. I further reckon that we’ll also use the MIR Posterous system to send some commentary and imagery directly to the site over the weekend.
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In curating the arriving ShoZu Photo Of The Day suggestions, I this one stood out for me — partly because WOMWorld dropped me a note to see if I’d like to try out an E71 (yes) and partly because this photo is an excellent, excellent indication of the business usage of ShoZu.
Our very own MIR Show star, Ben Smith, attended the Nokia E71 launch back in June 2008. The ability to be able to snap a picture and then transmit it back to the internet — or to ‘the office’ here at Mobile Industry Review quickly and without arsing about — is fantastic.
Nice image Ben!
If you’ve got a ShoZu Photo Of The Day entry, shoot it over to me and we’ll get it up.
Good morning from Malaga. I’ve hijacked the ShoZu Photo Of The Day feature to bring you some much needed sun!
I took this photo just a few moments ago on the iPhone and uploaded via ShoZu. It’s the view of the Mediterranean from the Melia Hotel. Even today at the end of January, there’s a good bit of sun about. I doubt the temperature is sizzling outside (maybe 14 degrees celcius) but is it really nice to actually get a bit of brightness into the soul. Locked away in London at the moment, it’s thoroughly and super-literally dull.
Posting from the iPhone also gives me the opportunity to tell you just how technically incompetent I am. I like to think of myself as a shit-hot jack-of-all-mobile-trades genius. But now and again something happens to remind me that this isn’t entirely the case all the time. Example: I’m staring at my sodding iPhone 3G wondering why it’s roaming on ‘Moviestar’ (“Movistar”) and NOT doing any data at all. I’m actually having the same trouble with my Blackberry. Whilst I give the iPhone a mental kick, I quickly remember that there’s a data-roaming option in the Settings menu. Duh. I switch that on.
Whilst I’m there I realise that I’ve had my iPhone on ‘2G mode’ for months. I switched it over to 3G and wayhay. Not only are we roaming, we’re knocking around on 3G speeds. My ShoZu photos are zipping up to the internet nicely.
And the battery is draining before my eyes.
Goooood morning!
- Taken at 8:24 AM on January 28, 2009 – iPhone upload by ShoZu –> sent via Flickr’s To Blog service directly to Mobile Industry Review
Jonathan Jensen is our billing uber-expert and regular contributor here at Mobile Industry Review. Do can read his back catalogue here.
Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day is from Jonathan. And his Nokia E51. When I read that in the email I thought, ‘uh oh — a picture from an E51..’
And whilst Jonathan says that the quality ‘isn’t fantastic’, I beg to differ. It does the job! And the device is a brilliantly conceived small S60 handset.
This is the view from Jonathan’s Home Office:
That’s the North Downs (a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch for 120 miles (190 km) from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent – thanks Wikipedia).
And that, Mr Jensen, is a brilliant piece of scenery to look at whilst you’re working.
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To be featured on the ShoZu Photo Of The Day segment, send me a photo that you’ve uploaded with the service and a sentence or so of explanation. I’m ewan@mobileindustryreview.com.
Today’s Shozu Photo Of The Day is a gifted one. Reader Neil Robertson was in a supermarket in Les Gets in the French Alps. Whilst Neil was no doubt skiing the length and breadth of the valley most of the time, he did pop into the local supermarket.
And was astonished to find this Mobile Industry Review (“MIR”) trademark infringement 
He promptly snapped a shot on his mobile. Good man!
Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day was contributed by MIR team member, Samantha (her weekly column goes live today at 1pm).
Here’s Samantha’s reasoning:
I’ve chosen this is because I was walking to school on a frozen Febuary morning last year; and I had my D600 (then my mobile) out, and I saw how the light and tree had created a scene where my feeble attempts at mobile photography could try and capture. I don’t know what it is, but there is something humbling, and somewhat “holy” about it, and it reminds me of why sometimes the winter isn’t that bad!
We need a lot of reminding, especially on shitty January mornings. Nice one Samantha!
Here’s her picture:
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