I’m writing this on a mobile phone using the wp-admin phone interface plugin, WPhone.
The experience is quite painful — it’s not meant for the usual mobile phone browser, but rather for richer ones (in both the functional and, er, economical sense).
I’m better off using other means, like email-to-blog perhaps.
Update: I take that back. Well, the part about posting using the mobile admin interface, anyway — that is still not usable and there are better ways of doing it. But other simple admin tasks (like activating or deactivating a plugin, for example) can be quite easy using the mobile interface.
For example, I was able to activate the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin, and was able to see the result right away.
There’s still the matter of having the plugin there in the first place though. Hmmm, SSH on S60 should be next in my list.
I have been messing around with the Asus eee PC. Here are my first impressions (sorry for the bullet points, I really am having trouble typing with the dwarfish keyboard {more on this later}).
The good:
- Low cost. This subnotebook has an amazing price point. Asus really outdid itself with this. At about USD 490, this proves to be an attractive proposition for budget-conscious consumers.
- Open source. This is really a win. Aside from being customizable, this really proves that Linux and open source software can significantly compete in the desktop space. In no time, I was able to add new repositories, enable full desktop mode, and insstall Beryl, among others. The peripherals Just Work ™ — no need for
modprobe and other CLI voodoo to detect USB storage, for example.
- User interface. I have a strict usability testing regimen: if my six-year old son cannot browse the web in under two minutes, the interface has failed miserably. This one passed with flying colors. The easy mode’s tab-and-button interface was intuitive enough, and provided ease-of-navigation. It’s very difficult to get lost with the customized KDE UI.
The not-so-good:
- Small form-factor. Okay, I admit this may not be a device for me, but the keyboard and screen size are killing me. After squinting for about an hour while playing FrozenBubble and TuxRacer, Gab gave up, saying, “maliit ang monitor, saka may mga ganun o” (pointing to the horizontal and vertical scrollbars). Rant: Why did they place the Up arrow between the “?|/” and right Shift keys? Touch typists will despair with the eee keyboard.
- Heat. My “crown jewels” (as Jim Ayson so eloquently described it) almost got cooked. The eee generates way too much heat for its size. Heck, it gets even hotter than my Dell.
Despite the negatives, however, the eee shines as a low-cost powerful ultraportable device. (There, three superlatives — shows how much I like it.) So far, I have installed a quite-useless but still very cool Beryl on the native Xandros OS that came with it. Contemplating on installing Ubuntu, if I can spare a USB flashdisk. I still can’t get Smart 3G to connect through my phone, though, but it’s most likely because of my settings rather than eee’s fault.
The phone, that is. (But come to think of it, *that* would make a nice pick-up line. Er… As I was saying…)
This is the LG KS10 phone, the first of a series of mobile phones with Google services pre-installed. Now, that’s even sexier.
Har, har.
Presenting the Nokia N73 Godfather edition. Comes with a 256MB SD loaded with The Godfather for your mobile viewing pleasure.
Via Gizmodo.
I’ve recently decided to get a PLDT WeRoam prepaid account. Unfortunately, when I was about to purchase a wireless card unit in one of their resellers, I found out that they do not carry cards for the ExpressCard slot that my notebook (Dell Inspiron e1505) has.
That left me with the following options to look for:
- PCMCIA-to-USB adapters.
- PCMCIA-to-ExpressCard adapters.
- USB GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA modem.
- Another provider (Globe Visibility, which carries the above).
Hay, the woes of going mobile.
