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YoWgo: Simple Cell Phone Wallpaper Search

by Terrence O'Brien on May 23, 2007 at 04:34 PM

As we recently reported, sales and downloads of wallpaper images are on the decline due to the proliferation of people using camera phone photos to decorate their cell phone screens. Now, a new service called YoWgo is hoping to carve into those sales even further.

Here's how it works: Lets say you want a photo of a cute little kitten for your cell phone screen and there are no cute little kittens around to photograph. Head over to yowgo.prodege.org and select the image tab at top. Type in "kitten," hit search and wait for your huge pile of kitty pictures to appear. Select the one you want and click the "Send to Phone" link, which uses Mixxer to deliver the image to your phone (Mixxer is a site that that let's users create custom content for their phones for free). All of this comes at no cost to you, except perhaps a teeny SMS charge from your provider.

We're big fans of YoWgo, and we definitely hope services such as Flickr and Picasa incorporate similar functionality in the future.

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Tags: cell phone, CellPhone, pictures, search, wallpaper

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