Giving my E90 a workout

This week I have been at w2e and I have been doing more moblogging and twittering than ever. In the past I had used my other handsets which lacked a keyboard and found that it was just too hard to post anything longer than an sms. I guess thats why twitter is so successful. People in asia have been doing that for years, it is just harder to do group sms.

For twitter i used my E90 most of the time with cellity tweeter. I cound have used sms too, but once i got started i got used to tweeter and just stuck with it. It's probably not the best s60 3rd client out there though. I'd be interested in knowing what others are using.

I also tried to tweet from my N800 which runs maemo linux. It worked of course but lacks a client for twitter as far as i know. I had pidgin on it but need to configure it again after the upgrade to OS2008, which I havent had time to do. The other problem is the touch screen. I love touch for browsing and using stuff with big buttons. But when it comes to text entry it is tedious at best. It also does not pass my so-called "taxi test". Ever try to use a touch screen to enter a paragraph of text while riding in the back of a swerving taxi? It is frustrating at best and in some asian or sfo taxis it is impossible. Iphone addicts will soon discover this. Worst case scenario i could imagine would be to try and tweet/blog while riding an Ambassador with no shock absorbers while orbiting one of New Delhi's many roundabouts.

What is working pretty well is the mobile typepad blogging client I am using now. The guys at SixApart did a great job with this. I t beats Nokia's annoying lifeblog software by miles. So i am going to start using it more often.

That way I can keep my mind off the fact that the crazy taxi driver in the front of me seems to consider driving a cab to be a form of first person shooter game with me as part of the bullet.