Landscape email program for iPhone.

I am testing a couple of landscape email programs for the iPhone. This
is being written on a program called Touch Type. Not a ton of features
but it does include a spell checker. I like it.

Sent from my iPhone

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Landscape email on the iPhone

This post is being written on a program called Fire Mail. It is
cmpletely baebones, it does not include a spell checker or a way to
save your message as a draft. I recommend Touch type over this one.

Sent from my iPhone

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Blogging on the go

Nearly three years ago I began blogging on a mobile phone. I would post almost everyday. I had a long commute on New York's underground railraod system. It provided me with an outlet, and was a really fun way to pass the time.

I felt then as I do now, that my creativity and writing was inspired by the devices I used. The first phone I used was a T-Mobile MDA. It was the first side sliding Pocket PC and had a chiclet keyboard, it wasn't the best keyboard out there, but it was very usable and i didn't know any better. Next I moved to a Cingular 8525. That keyboard was like a dream, and I still think it was the best qwerty device I have ever used.

I was seduced by the slickness of the iPone. I liked using it quite a bit, and still use one nearly everyday (though mainly as an MP3 player), but I was never inspired to write with it. I was still blogging every once in a while on the 8525, but on terrible day in the worst town in America (Boston) I lost my beloved 8525 in the back of a cab. So the writing dried up. I think the last post I actually wrote was about Larry Craig and his bathroom adventures.

I have been searching for the right phone that I could use to do some writing. I tried so many from the barely usable Glofiish M800 to blackberry curve to the HTC Fuze to the Nokia E71. They all failed. I knew it had to have a side sliding keyboard, and US 3G. The Fuze seemed like it was going to be the one but there was something about it that I just couldn't get behind. I think it was the small touch screen and Windows Mobile's crappy browser.

I have been using a Nokia E71 for the last 6 months but the tiny qwerty was just too tiny to use effectively. Then I began to see rumors of a side sliding E series device. I thought first finally this might be the one I had been looking for. So this weekend I saw Nokia had a good sale on the E75 so I snapped one up.

On my way out of the Nokia Flagship store I saw its the Nokia N97. I wish I had seen it on my way in. I tried it out and it was amazing and now I am thinking the E75 is going back and i will pick up the new hotness. I guess only time will tell.