...been playing with this for a few weeks now. quite cool. makes the mobile imaging experience (or, in english: taking pictures with your camera phone) a hell of a lot simpler and, frankly, more appealing.
shozu (linked) provides a little app for your phone (multiple models supported) that, in simplest terms, allows for one-click posting of pictures from your phone to the web (you'll need a flickr account - which is free and easy to get at http://www.flickr.com/). so, again, that's one click to snap a picture, at which point you get a prompt asking you if you want to post the image to the web - one more click, yes or no. done. simple. and, what's further cool, the image is not sent as a multimedia message but rather as simple data - so, no MMS surcharge and, better yet, no file size limitation (e.g. 250k or whatever) so the image posted at flickr reflects the full quality of whatever megapixel capability your camera-phone might have (downside of MMS posting to blogger has always been the file size limitation). it really doesn't get much simpler from the handheld side of things. and flickr's pretty easy to use as well, allowing for image organization, blogging, sharing, ordering prints, etc.
all in all, a solid step in the direction of usability - a sorely under-addressed challenge in terms of the occasionally intimidating (to some) rush of innovation these days...
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