I recently got a Nokia 9300i, so I ended up posting to this blog from it yesterday.
It was not a pleasant experience!
To overcome the basic display issues with the public area of my blog I installed Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition, which strips your blog down to the bare minimum and makes it perfectly usable from a PDA / mobile device.
But what about actually posting to the blog?
While I could try posting via email, that would be a bit limited, as I wouldn’t be able to choose the categories I wanted to post to.
So are there are any Symbian compatible blogging clients or is there a plugin to simplify the WordPress UI?
Blogging from Nokia 9300i
I’ve done more than 1500 blog posts from Nokia 9210i and Nokia 9500 keypads, using the mail-to-blog option. It’s easier to knock the posts into categories through the browser when back at a desk or with a laptop. It’s also much cheaper than using a web session, unless you’re on the Blackberry or all-you-can-eat data option.
Bernie
Aren’t there any Symbian blog clients that use the XML-RPC thing?
A generic XML-RPC client of some sort might work; it’s a rather simple format.
Here’s a very simple web interface for posting to WordPress that might be useful here: http://rsynnott.com/simplepost
Rob – Nice idea, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable supplying my username and password on a 3rd party website
That’s a point, yes. (though you could create a low privilege account for it). A similar thing completely client-side javascript could no doubt be crafted, but that probably wouldn’t work on a smartphone.
So are you going to release the source code? 🙂
http://rsynnott.com/stuff/simplepost.py 😛
It ain’t rocket science.
Hey Berni quite an impressive figures (1500) I haven’t blogged but I used it for quite a multiple purposes. Besides browsing and sycning it with my PC, this phone works quite well with syncML. I use a free online phone backup service http://www.zyb.com. It uploaded 1,237 contacts and calendars entries with in 5 minutes. I guess the combination of 9300i and zyb is killer.
Now if I could only get Apache to play nice with python ….