Mobile social network & Interactive Marketing Blog: MoboPic Crops Images for Your Mobile

MoboPic is a newly launched service that lets you take an image and crop it to a size that is specifically configured for your mobile phone, or social networking profile or gallery at MySpace, Hi5, Piczo, and the rest.

With MoboPic, you can upload an image from your computer, or insert the URL of the image you’d like to use. From there, you can crop, resize, zoom and save your image. MoboPic has pre-set several mobile phone specifications so that you can save it properly for your particular mobile device. The photos can be saved on your cell phone, and used as wallpaper, or saved in your social networking gallery, as most web-based networks have size limitations for images uploaded to their services. You’ll need to choose your phone type first, though, as your settings will be reset every time you choose your phone specs. Images are saved in MoboPic for one day, and a public URL is also provided for your resized image.

Surprisingly, you can’t search for photos on MoboPic (not even Flickr!). So if you do want an image from online, you’ll have to track down the URL yourself. Sadly, you can’t send images directly to your mobile phone or to your social networking profiles, either. Also, I can’t think of a better place to include a photo editing feature set, than with a service that is designed for creating images to be used on mobile devices and social networks.

Hopefully this will be a tool MoboPic adds in the future. MoboPic will have to partner with some other services, or better yet, create an API to be included in web services, to be of the most value to users. Other image editing tools include Photobucket, PikiPimp, and Graphita.