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Blog From Your Cellphone?
seldo writes "The BBC has an article up about blogging from your mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but the interesting part is the host of links to interesting new (free) software that lets you do it, including: Manywhere Moblogger (Java), WAPBlog (Perl), and KABLOG (J2ME mobile Java, runs on devices like Palms, the Treo and Blackberries). All three of these interface to also-free server side tech which you need to set up yourself (KABLOG interfaces to the popular MovableType server and compatibles). The article also mentions the proprietary foneblog service which seems very easy to use, but it is software intended to be run by cellphone companies for their users."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/203421 3&tid=95
Ya know, it's getting ridiculous nowadays.
The T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger hiptop is the perfect device for this type of blogging. There is already a growing community of these type's of Hiploggers over at http://www.hiptop.com/hiplog/ The nice thing about the Danger Hiptop is the querty keyboard, makes for a better mobile web experience. I bought my wife one of these and it is great.
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I'd love to hear from anyone who can show that they posted from their phone using email before then so we can set history straight.
On February 5th I added to graphic to help me remember that these were posted from the phone.
With Opera out for Symbian 6 devices you can use a real web browser to read/post to blogs if you desire. More importantly there are active working ports of Putty (ssh) as well, so now just go finagle a P800 and enjoy the net in your hand.
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He/she is probably American. Most of the cellphone companies suck here and the phones are probably models from 2 years ago. If you get a free phone when you sign up for service, chances are the phone sucks and is at least 1 generation behind.
Why do americans get the rat's ass of phones when Japan has realtime video phones?!
Because the typical American won't pay for phones, while the typical Japanese will pay upwards of $300-$400USD for a phone.
Mind you, the former are strapped to an annual contract, while the latter aren't, but that's just semantics.
Oh, and the reason why the Japanese are willing to pay that much for a mobile? Have you priced landlines in Japan lately? You must first *buy* the *right* to get a phone, which is at least double that of the mobile. It used to be that the rights purchase paid for, among other things, pulling the physical line to the place. Now, all it pays for is some technician activating a port from a remote console.
Freaking third-rate country.
DUPE!
Sigged!
Apparently your cellphone is from the last stone-age. Every cell phone I've seen in the past two years or so has predictive text input, so when you're tapping out a message you only have to press each number once and it guesses the most frequently used word. Then you push a button to go down the list if the word it guessed isn't the one you wanted (which is rather rare, all things considered). It works very well, and takes most of the pain of typing on your phone out.
But as far as taking what you're talking about literally, seems to me you're thinking about either a Danger Hiptop or a Palm smartphone such as a Handspring Treo. I happen to have the Treo 300, which works with Sprint, and it's quite the gadget - not sure if I could live without it now. Best thing about Sprint? Unlimited Vision (Sprint's faster-then-dialup data services) for $10/mo. If you buy a Hiptop (aka Sidekick) from T-Mobile, you get unlimited data for the first year, but after that you have to pay their standard rates for data, which pretty much blow - $10 for 10MB, and that's assuming you don't go over. Both of these devices have input methods better then your standard touchtone keypad, and both have gotten decent reviews, so if you want something smarter then your typical cell-phone, I'd check them out.
My English teacher once told me that two positives don't make a negative. Two words for her: Yeah, right.
It truly depends on what you buy and how you buy it, and who you buy it from.
You can go to an NTT Docomo store, and buy the phone outright, and be in a non-binding contract. You can also get them subsidised from a pseudo-authorised reseller, and get them as low as $50, or lower, depending on the model.
The NTT Docomo *monthly* are *much* lower than $50 now. I'm *currently* paying $30/month, plus a little more for going over the minutes and some international calls on it. Now, the reason ARPU is so high, I'm assuming, is because the figure includes people who use the bloody things *a lot*.
Now, FOMA is another story. I've yet to see a FOMA handset for less than $100, but the monthly bills on them are slightly less.
missed Audblog?
Solid!