Flint's Sony Ericsson Releases 'Blogging Phone'

Sony Ericsson has just released the first two models in its new Cyber-shot digital camera phone range--the K800i, and a marginally cheaper version--the K790. Both come with 3.2-megapixel cameras that are dovetailed with Google's free Blogger application. If a user chooses to send a picture via "blog", Google's servers automatically create a unique address on its blogspot for the handset/SIM card combination in question.

The Mobile Handset Analyst discusses the problem of the carriers which compress the images taken by Megapixel cameras. And yes, this is a big problem as soon as you want to moblog quality pictures. With the GX-30 for example, I get pictures at 200-300 KB, but when I send them I have first to compress them as more than 100 KB are not allowed in MMS. The Mobile Handset Analyst concludes:

The issue is likely to come into sharper focus next year with the launch of two- and three-megapixel devices. “We’re in a situation now where MMS is always catching up,” Wood says. “MMS is still a very good framework for sending messages from one phone to another, but if people are going to want to send print-grade pictures, then operators need to think about using an e-mail or GPRS bearer.”

Update:
Christian Lindholms Weblog tells the story.

Moblogging from the Nokia 6600 with Atom API

Pertti Korhonen, Nokia’s new CTO introduced PhotoBlog for Series 60 in his keynote at ETech in San Diego. This application proof-of-concept is supporting the Atom API enabling users to post to leading blog platforms. The application was developed by Futurice, who is developing a Photblog platform.

Via Joi

See also:
Christian Lindholm, Nokia at Etech
Pertti Korhonen, CTO Nokia at Etech
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Nokia 6600

Eleanor quotes in Best (photo) blog ever the post I did about Japanese consumers sending out only 3 photos per month.

I think as long as you do not have something like a Moblog, I wouldn't send out more than 3 pictures as well. It has something to do with the difference between MMS (picture messages) and SMS.

An SMS works like a telephone call - it resolves a current problem and has not much value after being sent out. Some exceptions - a SMS love letter for example;) - prove the rule.

A picture message on the other hand, has normally a long lasting value. We are accustomed to make and keep pictures - their value rather increases than decreases over time. Even if the photo quality is still low, a MMS is still more a digital photograph, than a SMS.

A personal moblog - considered as your brain "and" your emotions on the web solves the problem of loosing your pictures - it's more than the digital equivalent of the old-fashioned photo album we all know from our youth.

In cooperation with 20 Minuten, Switzerland's free newspaper (daily readership is over 700'000; the webcommunity is around 110'000), KAYWA launches the image-driven "MMS Fotoalbum".

More in german at 20 Minuten Community.