My new phone, my new Moblog

I finally did it. I bought myself a new phone (nokia 6670). Or shoudl I say a smatphone. Infact you should not think of this as a phone at all, but rather as a computer. A small wearable, easy to connect to the internet in any time, computer. Who happens to be of the same size of a phone. Happens to be usable as a phone. But not let it trick you. It is a computer. And nothing else. It runs an operating system: (symbian). When it freezes (and it happen) you need to reboot it (it seem that microsoft did not patent that feature).

It took me quite some time to learn to use it. And I don’t see how anybody who is not good with computers could do it, unless properly helped. In the first week I just learned to use it as a normal phone. phoning, answering, sms, … Then I started to study the more fancy stuff. I knew what I was after. Possibility to:

• send and receive e-mail
• update my blog
• check my feeds
• chat

And all this possibly at a low cost. I was not after pictures and those fancy and idiotic application.

The beginning was quite problematic. Starting from understanding that surfing via wap or via web is NOT the same thing. And if you have paid for wap you should not surf via web or find all your credit gone pretty soon. And do not believe those people at the help line that might be telling you that if you are surfing from your phone than it must be wap, thus you are covered. They don’t know what they are speaking about. Or to be totally honest, they know, unfortunately they speak for the average person. Not for your new, kickass smartphone (a.k.a. computer disguised as a phone).

Soon I learned how to get my mail from the phone (forwarding it from the gmail account to the tim account), and even get an sms every time I received an e-mail. The next step was to totally divide my mails into personal mails (gmail) and automatic mail deliveries (yahoo account). So that I only got sms for interesting stuff. I still get a couple of sms a night for spam, but all in all the system works quite well.

I then looked for a good rss reader. Rss orbit, although I have to say with quite some problems. From incorrect spacing (makes reading poetry freaky), no links in the text (useless for so many feed, del.icio.us to start with), and some feeds that would simply not work. Also it required me to ask for the feed manually each time. All the comodity of having the site come to you when it had updated, disappeared. I started using it only on few important sites, who update quite often. I also mailed the programmer, asking if some of theose bugs/feature could be fixed. and he very kindly responded. Eventually most of them will. The automatic update instead will not happen until internet flat rate for mobile will be widespread enough.

For a chat program I use IM+. I tried many, but none seemed to work well. And IM+ seemed to be professional enough. I was also very lucky. Being their first costumer with a Nokia 6670 I asked them for a free licence in excange for me testing some of their software on my phone. It worked fine for both. It was a fun extra hour of work, and I was happy to be paid with that licence.

But before moving to the blog feature let me say that soon I had started usng the camera installed, let’s say, a bit too much. In short I started taking a picture of everything. It was so fun to just be able to take picture and scrape them, all while not having to carry any extra piece of technology (i.e. camera) at all.

I tried various type of software to post to my blog, … and eventually I learned how to send pictures to flickr (via email). I also learned how to do it so that flickr would then post both the picture and my comment to a blog. SO that is what I did, I started a new blog, that I updated only from my mobile . The picture also appear at my page in flickr. And can be feed scraped from both sites.

So the result is:
I have a new cameraphone.
I have a new moblog.

And I am having lot’s of fun.

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