Jul 28

Blogging from Nokia 9300i

by in Techie :: Techno ::

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?

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10 Responses to “Blogging from Nokia 9300i”

  1. From Bernie Goldbach:

    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.

    Posted on July 28, 2006 at 5:01 pm #

  2. From michele:

    Bernie
    Aren’t there any Symbian blog clients that use the XML-RPC thing?

    Posted on July 28, 2006 at 5:19 pm #

  3. From Rob:

    A generic XML-RPC client of some sort might work; it’s a rather simple format.

    Posted on July 29, 2006 at 1:56 am #

  4. From Rob:

    Here’s a very simple web interface for posting to WordPress that might be useful here: http://rsynnott.com/simplepost

    Posted on July 29, 2006 at 3:04 am #

  5. From michele:

    Rob – Nice idea, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable supplying my username and password on a 3rd party website

    Posted on July 29, 2006 at 11:42 am #

  6. From Rob:

    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.

    Posted on July 29, 2006 at 11:59 am #

  7. From michele:

    So are you going to release the source code? :)

    Posted on July 29, 2006 at 12:01 pm #

  8. From Rob:

    http://rsynnott.com/stuff/simplepost.py :P
    It ain’t rocket science.

    Posted on July 29, 2006 at 6:18 pm #

  9. From locke langston:

    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.

    Posted on August 10, 2006 at 10:41 am #

  10. From michele:

    Now if I could only get Apache to play nice with python ….

    Posted on August 10, 2006 at 8:28 pm #