c. scott andreas

Last week, I received an iPhone as bounty for some of my work on a super-secret project with a super-secret company (*wink*). You can imagine how stoked I was about this, I’m sure. Since I’m moving to the UK in two weeks, I don’t have service through AT&T but am happily using it as an awesome PDA + camera + iPod combo.

I took iPhone with me to Seattle last weekend to give it a “travel test” and am very happy with how it turned out. Despite its poor performance in very bright and very dim conditions, I was very impressed with the camera (the next few photos below were taken using it). I’ll definitely be taking more snapshots now that I have a decent small camera to carry around.

Here’s the kicker, though: mobile blogging is astonishingly simple.

1. I took a shot with the camera and tapped “E-mail Photo.”
2. I chose my Flickr Account’s e-mail address out of the address book, added a title and description, and hit “Send.”
3. The next time I walked by an open access point, iPhone hopped on to start sending the messages (via an encrypted SMTP connection).
4. Once the messages sent, Flickr added the images to my account and automatically posted them to my blog

Now that’s cool.

More tricks later.