Dan’s Blog (2.0)

In the spirit of “eating my own dog food,” I’ve been using the Web more and more often from mobile devices over the past year — in particular from the Blackberry 8700. For things like keeping up to date with news headlines, this has actually become my device of choice - it’s so convenient, especially for sites like BBC, who have done the work on optimizing for mobile. Having a real QUERTY keyboard is a definite help for anything but casual browsing, however. Even with a QUERTY keyboard though, blogging from my Blackberry is still too difficult. For one thing, there is no spell-check which is a big problem. The web-based interface that Blogger provides is unusable on most mobile browsers (though haven’t tried the Safari-derived Series 60 browser — it probably works on that one since it works nicely on Safari on the Mac - which by the way provides spell-check as you type in large text entry fields). Text entry and content authoring in general is still a key stumbling block for mobile browsing.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 16:53 under Mobile Web