Came across a couple of interesting Firefox addins the past few days:
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I wanted to get the photos off one of my old inactive cell phones. Took the Samsung E715 to T-Mobile hoping they would have a data cable to do the transfer. No such luck. Made me think that this would be a good business to have a kiosk at the mall.
Ordered a data cable from EBay for $5 including shipping. Figured I had little to lose if it didn’t work. Cable came and did fit the phone.
Hooked the phone up to my machine and installed the drivers. Problem is that the drivers are for XP and I only have Windows 7 now. Virtual PC was no help as it doesn’t use USB devices. Considered VMWare, but didn’t want the hassle. Decided I would just wait to find an XP machine.
Then I remembered that Windows 7 has XP mode. And it supports USB. Thought I would give it a go. Installed it and was able to install the drivers. But now what?
Eventually found a program on the CD called BitPim. I could not get it to recognize the E715. Downloaded the latest version and still no luck.
After much searching, eventually found a program from Samsung that does the trick. EasyGPRS. Not supported by Samsung, and seemingly only available from this link: http://download.52samsung.com:82/52_official_download/samsung/D418/
Extracted the pictures and am now very happy 
Hopefully this will help someone else with the same issue save themselves some headaches and half a day of research.
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