Mobile Life
After a week of trying to live my life online through my mobile. I have to say that the functionality for most websites and social networks is poor or just limited.
Using Facebook was ok, it has the basic functionalities for working on the move, picking up messages, sending messages and writing on people's walls. Posting photo's is very hit and miss, infact I hate the whole experience of getting photos there. It should be made easier for international users to post photo's on the move, it goes without saying that Europe as a whole as a better cellular network than the United States, so why is it the Facebook interface for posting mobile photos, in the European market so poor?
On Vox the mobile posting experience alllows me to post and comment on the fly.No problems overall with this site
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Microblogging is basically easy. Twitter without exception is the best, despite it's outages. Pownce, Plurk, Brightkite and Friendfeed also rate highly but sometimes functionality gets lost on the mobile - like adding friends on the mobile version of Brightkite - granted this is still a beta.
It is my conclusion, that life on a mobile at the moment has to be limited, as full functionality and services are just not there yet, until numbers increase using the the mobile web mobile then it will continue to play second fiddle to the PC experience..
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My experience using Treo680 and pc on the go confirmed what you have described.In Malaysia,sending a photo over the wireless world while we are travelling are almost impossible.When I travel on business,I take along my pc so that I can get connected when I am at the hotel.
I've not tried posting photos onto Facebook using a mobile phone, personally. Does that involve emailing the photos to a unique email address like you can do with Vox (if you don't want to use the Vox app)?
It's supposed to be a part of the "mobile" experience of facebook, I have managed to get a couple of shots up but hated the experience. I now much prefer just prefer dropping a link into my mini feed using a combination of Friendfeed, Twitter and the great posting tool that seems to be the rage on Twitter at the moment, Brightkite., which i've fallen in love with!