Rather foolishly, I thought Verizon’s Car and Driver SlideShow would take the prize for “most ridiculous image-based cellphone application” today – after all, charging $4.49 a month for a hundred photos of cars on your cellphone is really milking the idea of mobile content – but that’s before I saw AT&T’s American Idol Framerz.  For a mere $0.99 you can send a photo of yourself via MMS and have it merged with a picture of an American Idol contestant mid-croon; imagine the joy and excitement as you then forward that composite picture to all your friends and family.

Once you’ve sent the photo, AT&T give you an url where you can edit, resize and move it around so that your head isn’t obscured by Chikezie, whoever he is.  If you don’t want to appear next to any of the contestants, you can put yourself on stage or even holding a placard with a “funny” slogan.  As AT&T themselves say, “Send it to yourself to use as your phone graphic, post to a web site, or forward to ALL your friends!”  As I say, “save your money and wait until they’re all doing meet-&-greets in your local mall.”

[via HotCellularPhone]