Video transmitting over a cellular carrier

1. A method, comprising:

sending a request for an image or video to a server, from a portable phone;

also sending specific information about the portable phone to the server;

receiving a compressed version of said image or video, on the portable phone, said compressed version being specific to both the portable phone and about characteristics of the carrier and where said application is specific to different quantization values for color and luminance for the specific portable phone, and defines first quantization values for a first portable phone and second quantization values for a second different portable phone, and where said quantization values comprise values to which said color and luminance areas will be quantized, even when said values in an area to be quantized are not exactly the same;

receiving an application which can decompress the data, where said application is specific to both the portable phone and about characteristics of the carrier;

receiving from the server over a cellular connection, instructions to send said image or video to another phone among said plurality of phones that is located within the local area of said portable phone, via a different channel than the channel on which said image or video was received;

Decompressing the compressed version of said image or video using said application;

and

sending said image or video to said another phone that also requests said image via a Bluetooth connection.

2. A method as in claim 1 , wherein said image or video is a still image.

3. A method as in claim 1 , wherein said image or video is a frame of the video.

4. A method as in claim 1 , wherein said image is compressed in a format such that multiple different images have similar areas identified by a common indicia indicative of one of those areas, and also by an indication of where said area is located in those multiple images.

5. A method as in claim 1 , wherein said information about the carrier includes a communication load of a channel used by the carrier at a time of sending.

6. A method, comprising:

receiving a request for data to be sent to a portable phone over a carrier;

determining specific information about the portable phone, and about the carrier; and

based on said specific information, compressing the data, and sending the data and also sending an application which can decompress the data, where said application is specific to both the portable phone and about characteristics of the carrier and where said application is specific to different quantization values for color and luminance for the specific portable phone, and defines first quantization values for a first portable phone and second quantization values for a second different portable phone, and where said quantization values comprise values to which said color and luminance areas will be quantized, even when said values in an area to be quantized are not exactly the same; and

wherein said application is usable to decompress the information.

7. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said application is optimized for characteristics of the portable phone, and further comprising a different application which is optimized for characteristics of a different portable phone.

8. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said data is images.

9. A method as in claim 8 , wherein said images are frames of video.

10. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said requesting comprises using a universal short code number.

11. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said compressing comprises finding areas among multiple images which have the same luminance and color, and transmitting information indicative of only said luminance, said color, and information about the areas.