mobile blogging from a symbian phone, anyone?

Decided that wordmobi was taking too much space on the paltry space I had on my N97′s C drive. It turned out symbianguru was also in search of a blogging solution. I turned to the default Nokia browser and the wordpress backend which wasn’t too much to write about. It barely does the job and is almost next to being completely unusable.

I tried out wordpress on both the opera mini and the mobile and both of them wouldn’t let me type a single word.

Frustrated, I looked for help on Google and after a few stray results I got a wordpress plugin for the Iphone named the mobile admin, which unfortunately was unsupported with WP 2.5 and above.More searching around got me the Wphone plugin which allowed me to type the content until this point.

But it wouldn’t support images or links. And my search continued. Searching on google got me to this blog post on mobile applications I tried out a few java apps until I came across Wavelog from telewaving. Now wavelog had a really confusing interface and it wasn’t freeware. I downloaded the 30 day trial and got it to work with a little help from their help files.

The app works well on my symbian v5 device and supports v3 as well. I decided to go ahead and spend the $8.25 on the full version. Now thats the longest post I’ve made from my mobile phone. Now all I need are a few screenshots and this post is done. I think the search for a good mobile blogging solution is far from being complete. But then I don’t have an Iphone. Because we chose to be different.

TALE OF A MOBILE BLOGGER

Posted from a mobile phone:
This post is to commemorate the success of mobile royale, the completely mobile maintained blog. I came across his blog through one of my google reader entries. You can read his account here. All the more appreciable is his effort considering that it is hosted on a free domain name and attempts to keep it alive inspite of the tough times.

My passion for mobile tech has ensured that I read most blogs relevant to the subject..Is it possible to completely eliminate the use of computers? After all, what you have in your pocket is not one thing. It is manthis post comes from my mobile phone as well. from my trusty e66.

I use the WordPress mobile plugin to make blogposts from my mobile phone. The plugin barely does its job if you ask me. It is good enough to provide a mobile interface for your blog but not for making blog entries from your mobile phone. Which is why, I had to complete this blog post from my PC, since the plugin kept moving the cursor around and didn’t even let me complete the blog post. Yeah! I said trusty e66 and a not so trustworthy plugin. Try out ready.mobi to check whether your blog is truly mobile web ready!