With mobile telephones and other mobile devices becoming ubiquitous, and the ease with which users may snap photographs with these devices, issues regarding storage capacity, photographic quality, backup and privacy are now more relevant. It can be common for a mobile telephone to reach its storage capacity for photographs and other digital images, requiring a user to spend time deleting previously stored photographs or to forego taking more photographs.
Additionally, while some backup services are available for storing images over the Internet to a cloud-based service, their typical strategy is to back up entire images thus creating privacy issues for the user's photographs. Further, backing up entire images consumes a great deal of network bandwidth. And, for those users who store images from their mobile devices exclusively on a cloud-based server, those images are not available should an Internet connection not be available.
Accordingly, a new strategy for storing digital images from mobile devices is desired. Such a strategy should address memory capacity of mobile devices, photographic quality and privacy of images.