Category Archives: Mobile Blogging

I Love My New Nokia E71

Quick Summary: Not only do I love my new Nokia E71 smartphone, I am also writing this post on it.

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Nokia E71 smartphone

I’ll not have access to a PC for almost a fortnight, starting August 1, and I was really worried - no blogging for a fortnight! - until I tried blogging from my new Nokia E71 smartphone.

I’m writing this post on my E71 on a Vodaphone GPRS connection.

It’s not the same as writing on a laptop, of course. The Wordpress administrative interface took a couple of minutes to load, the qwerty keyboard is a little cramped, I can’t cut and copy text and doing fancy formatting is somewhat cumbersome.

However, the page download speed is only a little slower than the speed on the Tata Huawei data card attached to my laptop. My typing speed is already quite nifty after a day of playing around with the E71 and I have made almost no typos in the entire post. The qwerty keyboard, in spite of its tiny size, is easy to get used to. The screen resolution is wide enough, without being a wow! factor, and the navigation is never confusing, even if it is sometimes cumbersome. If I really want to, I can even do some really fancy formatting, with a little effort.

Yours Truly Quoted in Hindustan Times’ Very Well-Researched Article on Micro-Blogging in India

Yours truly was quoted today in a very well-researched Hindustan Times article on micro-blogging in India.

Twitter, a popular microblogging service abroad, recently introduced an India number. Says Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, “The people of India are very sophisticated when it comes to using SMS to stay connected.”

In Mumbai, Twitter recently inspired a ‘tweetup’, when Gaurav Mishra, a marketing professional and an “early adopter of technology”, wrote out a post saying “Blog meets are so passé. I want a Mumbai Twitter meet.”

The article covers the entire spectrum of the micro-blogging space in India, from Twitter to MyToday MOBS and Webaroo SMSGupShup to the Reliance m-blog and Nokia N-Series m-blog.

The article also has quotes from Ideasmith, Veer, Kiran, Rajesh and Biz Stone.

Here is the full text of the article —

Blogging by SMS, new rage in cool India
Neha Tara Mehta, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, February 17, 2008

The Power of Mobile

I’m writing this post from my mobile phone.

MediaSnackers want to create and consume content wherever they want, whenever they want, in whatever form they want.

Mobile phones are a second self for us MediaSnackers because they liberate us from the computer and allow such content creation and consumption to happen.

In my future posts, I’ll explore more aspects of how the mobile phone acts as a liberator for MediaSnackers.