If you own a recent Nokia phone with the Symbian S60 operating system (S60v3, S60v5) and are using the microblogging services Twitter or Laconia, you may be interested in using a new Twitter client for the phone: Gravity Gravity v1.00 is the first fully-featured and native Twitter client for the S60 platform. It supports multiple [...]

Fellow blogger Mzeecedric and I are today attending AfrikaCamp which just started a few minutes ago. Please stay tuned for more as I will try to update this post throughout the day (see updates below). Oh and btw, there’s no ustream from the event (no videos). Sorry! First of all: Africa = continent = many [...]

Following my other mobile blogging related posts, both my colleagues @AfriGadget – Frerieke & Erik – adviced me to take a closer look at a wonderful (new) WordPress plugin called MobilePress. “MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.” – We’ve seen [...]

“I just hope it doesn’t arrive when I’m around”, she said. “…coz you’d spend more time with it than with me”. Well… Donna of WomWorld/Nokia contacted me the other day, asking if I’d be interested in testing the Nokia E71 business phone as a blogger. What a rhetorical question… [disclaimer: this post is REALLY long! [...]

Just in line with my previous series on mobile blogging, check out the following: Add this for other mobile operating systems (other than Nokia’s S60 line – though Series 60 is quite good for this special task), combine it with a monetary incentive programme (~ citizen reporters get paid in terms of airtime or via [...]

It’s almost one year ago that I published three (1, 2, 3) articles on mobile blogging – and nothing has really changed since then. Back in 2007, both the Nokia N95 and the Apple iPhone were released – two completely different phones that were only compared on numerous blogs due to setting new standards on [...]

Mobile blogging…as in blogging directly from the phone or another portable device other than notebooks. Why would someone want to blog from a phone? Well, computers in the form of desktop personal computers or laptops are still expensive. Despite of relatively high initital costs, an uncertain power supply and restricted internet access not only in [...]

As long as part 2 on mobile blogging is in the pipe (blogging…as in “publishing content online”), check out this story on the “Mobile Journalism Toolkit“. An impressive setup with the right, self-made (!) add-ons to improve the N95′s performance. Now I only wish Nokia would improve the firmware on the N95-1 and even add [...]