Downloading pictures from a cell phone to iPhoto 5

I just bought a Motorola V551 camera phone and was told by the sales person that if I bought a USB cable for it (which I did) that I would be able to directly down load pictures to my Mac. I have a iMac G5 with OS 10.4.2 and iPhoto 5.0.4 and assumed downloading would be similar to hooking-up a digital camera - wrong! Anyway to make this work?

Hi Thomas,
There are a lot of posts concerning your phone, but they are in different discussion areas. I would do a search for "Motorola V551" in all the discussions by clicking on the Home link above, and then putting your phone name in the search box.
I came up with one that is close to yours, but it concerns bluetooth file transfer, but someone does ask about the usb cable.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b3d447

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