Picture Messaging a Hit in Japan

"While Japan Telecom reported a $530 million loss for the latest fiscal year, its mobile-phone unit, J-Phone, reported $14 billion in revenue -– a 16.3 percent increase from the previous year.

J-Phone, whose market share grew from 17 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2001, attributed its success to Sha Mail, a service that let users take pictures with their cell phones and e-mail them with a text message." [Wired News]

Maybe if this type of service was available in the U.S. my brother would send a picture of my niece once in a while.