Nokia has recently launched its Nokia M-Blog service for India, wherein you can directly post pictures to your blog that is hosted on the Nokia site. I had recently reviewed Mabber, and how the application might not find a lot of users in India due to the high-priced Advanced GPRS, which is a requirement to run the app. However, Nokia M-Blog application takes care of this issue, and easily connects to the servers. It is nice to see one application that belongs to Web 2.0 and easily works with the basic GPRS (aarrrggh!!!) subscription in India.
For now, you can only upload images to the blog site. Along with the image upload, there is an option to add a caption for the image. I would like to see more text capabilities in this application, to rate it as “The Blogging Application”. A single image upload took took less than 20 seconds for me. The quality of the image remains a concern though. Incidentally, the application reduces the size and the quality of the image so that it can be transferred over a WAP/GPRS network. But that is one issue that I am ready to overlook for now.
I also have set up my own blog to test out the service and the ‘coolness’ factor. I am testing this application right now, and will post an update soon. Till then, check out the service at the Nokia M-Blog site for India.
Though only N-Series phones are supported for M-Blog, I could install and use it on 6630 as well. But i think there are better phone blogging tools available.
Hi Harsh. Yeah there are better blogging tools available for sure. As of now, all we can do is post pictures on the m-blog. Great to know it also worked on your phone. I use 6680 and it works fine on my phone as well. I think that thing about N-Series is more of a marketing gimmick.
If this is done right it should do well, mobile blogging could be huge
Yeah I would agree with you. But there is a lot of speculation about what is right and what is not. I would like to think that with the advent of technologies like WiMax, things could change drastically for the mobile industry. However, the whole dynamics vis-a-vis the consumers and operators needs to be established and studied, before the ’success’ of such initiatives can be commented on.