I always wanted to have an application that allows me to blog from my mobile phone. Unfortunately Nokia doesn’t ship its handsets with such an application – other manufacturers do so (sometimes). Up to now I only knew an application called ShoZu. ShoZu isn’t only a software you install on your mobile, ShoZu is also an online service that acts as some sort of “proxy” between your mobile and your blog. So the ShoZu client doesn’t publish directly to the blog, but it sends the post to the online service and the service pushes the post to the blog. This might have some oppertunities as the support of a plethora of blogging engines and other social networking sites but also requires that you hand over the password to your blog to the ShoZu service. A pretty odd feeling…
Well, I tested ShoZu with a test blog hosted on wordpress.com and found out, that the software works well. But somehow it is also very bloated and not really easy to understand. It also adds some functionality to parts of the mobile as the camera. Sometimes – I couldn’t figure out exactly when- ShoZu comes to life and asks if you want the publish the picture taken a moment ago on your blog. Unfortunately you can’t control this, so I deinstalled Shozu pretty fast.
Some time ago I read about a Python based WordPress client for Symbian. (Python is a programming langauge that is, like Java, more or less platform independant. Like for Java, Python runtime environments exist for multiple Symbian S60 based mobiles). I don’t know really why, but I didn’t test the software called Wordmobi up to now. Today I installed Python (click here to read more) and Wordmobi and I got a really good first impression.
After setting up the connection to my blog (btw: wordmobi only works for WordPress blogs) I entered the “Posts” menu and was able to update the list of available posts on my blog:
This works pretty well. You can even edit and republish existing posts. Cool. The next step was to test if the creation of new posts works, too.
Well, it seems so. You can also add stuff like lists or images to a post. If you select “image” Wordmobi asks if an existing picture should be selected or if you want to take a new one. I took a new one and it worked! 
For me, Wordmobi is the first application that I really can use to write short posts using my mobile. I don’t know if this is really a thing you want (and need) to do, but I feel that this could be fun *g* Btw: you can see the test post I wrote here.