Kevin Thompson

I’ve got an hour to kill while my car is at the mechanic so I figured I’d try writing a full post from my iPhone via the Wordpress application. In these first two sentances alone I’m already noticing a few complications.

The first issue I’m running into is that although I’ve grown fairly compfortable typing using the iPhone’s vertical on screen keyboard, I’d much prefer the horizontal counterpart (which I’ve only seen in the browser so far). The second problem plaguing me is related to typing in a mobile device in general. I’m catching myself ommitting punctuation, and when I want to correct the ommission or I do remember to add the punctuation, it takes several key presses and at least one alternate screen to enter the punctuation. These aren’t major flaws, and I think they are certainly acceptable given the trade off is the ability to write a full featured article on a mobile device.

While I enjoy the conveniance of being able to write entire posts from my phone, I imagine the most practical use is for either correcting errors on or updating an existing post, or liveblogging.