| 摘要 |
A method of transmitting data from a portable electronic device to a communication network, such as the Internet, or a mobile phone network is described. An initiating device with a wireless link to the communication network is configured to access data on a subsidiary device using a wire, or wireless connection e.g. Bluetooth, Wifi, infrared or Firewire. Reduced size representations of the data on the subsidiary device, such as thumbnails images, or filenames, are downloaded to the initiating device for selection. Having selected the data for transmission, and the mode of transmission, such as e-mail or MMS for example, the data is transmitted by streaming it from the subsidiary device over the local connection and into the outgoing data stream to the communication network. In this way, the initiating device need never store a complete copy of the file being transmitted. A corresponding device and computer program product is also claimed. The initiating device may be a mobile phone and the subsidiary device may be a digital camera, thereby enabling digital photographs to be transferred from the camera to the network without having to first store whole copies of the photographs in the mobile phone's memory.
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