Technology has advanced so much for mobile phones that its no longer necessary to have to carry a laptop to do work when you are out and about. My current Motorola Global2 cell phone is a few years old and runs an older version of the android operating system. Its called the Motorola Global2 and has a qwerty keyboard that’s exposed when the screen slides out. It was a long hard debate for me on which phone I should get and went back and forth trying to decide between this phone and the Apple iPhone4 (the iPhone 4s had not come out yet). In the end, the Motorola won out due to the final out of pocket cost being as low as $49 for the phone plus less than $10 for tax. At Staples, I didn’t have to pay the full tax of nearly $50 more like the other stores charge. Also, the iPhone’s inability to see flash video and expand its memory would have driven me crazy over time.
Both the iPhone and android OS have WordPress apps available to simply posting to your blogs. Trying to access the backside interface on either device through a phone’s web browser is just not as efficient as a nicely designed mobile interface. Now that I have used my android and it’s time for a new phone, I am once again tempted to try possibly go over to the iPhone. A new model iPhone should be coming out soon and since I still plan to develop new mobile apps, its much more advantages to have an iPhone to do my testing. That testing ability is worth the trouble of not being able to see flash on my phone, or is it?
Besides using my phone for calling and texting, the other benefit of getting a newer device is having a decent camera with me wherever I go. When we do our internet business, capturing something we see when we are out and about is a big benefit for content use.
My hope is that very soon, we shall have these devices accurately catch every word we speak and convert it to text accurately enough where I could speak my whole blog content into by phone and it would be instantly ready for posting. I know that much of that technology is close enough to use to catch most of the content for a blog post and all I would have to do is spend a few minutes editing, but total accuracy should be here in a few short years or less.
Till then, I will stick with the currently technology and utilize what is available to me, which is quite awesome already!