II am currently at the Cruxshadows concert in Tempe, Arizona. This post is written
entirely with my N800. I took the picture above with my digital camera, put the
card in the tablet, and uploaded it directly. Live blogging is possible but a bit
slow.
Since they wouldn't let me take a picture of the band, here are people setting up. am currently at the Cruxshadows concert in Tempe, Arizona. This post is written entirely with my N800. I took the picture above with my digital camera, put the card in the tablet, and uploaded it directly. Live blogging is possible but a bit slow.
*Edit* Analysis of the post: I wrote it before I took the picture. I think the "save as draft" function combined with the N800's tendency to read the contents of a text box when tapped made the double text. You can see it was inserted after the first "I" twice. The title was lowercase because I forgot to tap "shift" and the double-enter keys were because I was using Blogger's "edit" and not "compose" feature. It's still possible to blog with the N800, but would require practice and care. To answer a question in comments: I was online using my Verizon EVDO through a Bluetooth DUN connection.
9 comments:
I am guessing you switched input methods? Thus the doubling of text. This would happen to me when posting to ITT when I would go from the small keyboard to the thumb board. Or perhaps just a little mistake. Keep up the excellent work!
How were you "connected" when blogging from your Nokia 800. Is this the reason it was slow? I find writing on my Nokia 770 using the virtual keyboard or thumb keyboard quite quick?
I have tried blogging a few times from my Nokia 770 and not withstanding issues with Opera 8 and blogger2, it works well. see this post in my blog.
http://mikesl300i.blogspot.com/2007/01/using-nokia-770-to-surf-internet.html
My bloghoster supports mobile blogging via MMS from any mobile phone, so I was used to a mobile blogging experience even before I got the 770.
What would be interesting, though: Some basic image manipulation functions such as rotate, flip, crop, resize, set brightness/contrast/gamma etc. on the N800/770. This is something my mobile phone will not do, and I usually enhance the pictures sent from the phone to my blog a few days later on the desktop PC. If I could do this on the 770/N800, it would be a smoother workflow. (For N800-users it'd be even better once they can use the built in camera for these purposes.)
Interesting.
I tend to think that Windows Xp is currently the best platform for blogging. The reason is that there are far more offline blogging tools.
LiveWRiter, for example, lets you blog through a number of different API's. Also includes basic image editing, drag and drop, drafts, re-editing, pining etc. A wonderful tool.
Alternative for inline work is Google Writer. It will publish through many blogging and CMS API's. Not sure about the image editing features.
I'm building a new UMPC-focused website at the moment and yesterday I submitted my top 3 UMPCs for mobile bloggers. (www.umpc-toplist.com Not really live yet. We're building content at the moment.) Sorry, the N800 wasn't included because of the lack of offline editing features.
Steve.
Looks like Mike Cane isn't the only one having issues with text entry on the tablets. I guess you can add that to the "Things Nokia Should Have Fixed, But Didn't" list for the Internet Tablet line.
Hi, i look for an Blog Application on Nokia N800 - current - i do not find a Blog Software -
Drivel (Linux) ist not available http://www.dropline.net/drivel/screenshots.php
Maemoblog is not ready - see - http://maemo-hackers.org/wiki/MaemoBlog
which uses you ????
ThoughtFix, between blogging, have you tried playing any Flash online games yet.
Could you instruct or post a link to a resource that provides instructions as to connecting the N800 and Verizon tethered EVDO? I'm kind of stumped and not finding Verizon to be all that helpful. Thanks!
David,
I have not seen a how-to, but I found the Verizon Wireless setup to be simple. It went something like this:
Go through the cell phone wizard in the Nokia.
When asked, set your phone to Discovery mode. I am a bluetooth noob so I tried this many times before a coworker pointed out that merely 'enabling' bluetooth on the phone does NOT allow it to be discovered or paired.
I enabled discovery on my phone (sch-u740 Samsung)
they found each other, and are happy. :)
The most difficult part was convincing the verizon rep to sell me the wireless data plan that lets me use the "phone as a bluetooth modem". The reps are not educated about business uses like this.
Unlimited data at verizon is $60 a month extra, compared to $20 at Sprint. (Work pays for it)
Speeds are great even over bluetooth. Allegedly there is a speed hit on bluetooth, but it's fast enough for me and I am generally picky.
good luck
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