Mundane, but useful ways to use your mobile phone

I know we're pursuing "cutting edge" applications for mobile rich media, but don't you like to see something that just works? How about "park by phone" - introduced in Vancouver on June 26th? I take the bus, so I seldom have a need for this, but it is kind of nifty, and perhaps it will be the beginnings of more 'pay by phone' applications like we already see in Europe and Asia (especially Japan).

You can read more about this at the City of Vancouver's park by phone web site.

By the way, this was taken with my new portable multimedia device, the Nokia N80. Pretty sharp picture, eh?