MlearningOverview

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What is Mlearning?

“New mobile and context-aware technology can enable young people to learn by exploring their world, in continual communication with and through technology” (Sharples, 2005).

“A review of current practice suggests that mobile and wireless learning is the natural next step wherever institutions and practitioners have already adopted e-learning” (JISC, 2005b).

Sotillo (2003, p5) describes the pedagogical impact of ubiquitous wireless computing:

In summary, the advantages of wireless computing in education are ubiquity, portability, and flexibility for collaborative learning projects. Computer power everywhere and all the time means the ability—and the challenge—to integrate computers into every aspect of teaching, learning, and research. This represents a Copernican revolution in instruction, with the professor as guide and mentor rather than "fount of knowledge" or ultimate classroom authority.

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One approach towards Mobile Learning is to make course content available on a variety of mobile formats: e.g. James Clay made an interesting presentation at the recent JISC online conference "Innovating eLearning" [1] (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/M4V13248.MP4)

Social Constructivism

Social constructivism is an alternative approach to the content approach and is based on communication. Learning is seen as the result of active participation in a ‘community’ where new meanings are co-constructed by the learner and his/her ‘community’. This communication approach favours learning technologies which support communication between communities of learners (Evans, 2005).


Learning by using the mobile wireless devices as a means to leverage the potential of current and emerging collaborative and reflective elearning tools (e.g. blogs, wikis, RSS, instant messaging, podcasting, social book marking, etc…) (Farmer, 2004; Glogoff, 2005; Kaplan-Leiserson, 2004). The development of ‘social software’ is seen as one of the characteristics of what has been coined the ‘web2’ development (Alexander, 2006; Alexander et al., 2006; Wilson, 2006). The popularity of these social, web-based tools is demonstrated by the design and support of current and soon to be released consumer mobile devices. An example is the inclusion of RSS newsreading capability into Nokia (Nokia Lifeblog 2.0) and Sony Ericsson cell phones, and the Sony PSP. The next generation of Sony Ericsson cell phones will feature integrated mobile photo blogging (Gohring, 2006).


NOKIA have grasped the social constructivist nature of wireless mobile devices. View their TV add for the NSeries phones, and note the keywords that are displayed - these are some of the key attributes of web2/Social Software/Social Construction!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35q7HGdKGu8

Wireless

Content delivery to mobile devices may well have a useful place in m-learning, however, there is an imperative to move from a view of e- and m-learning as solely delivery mechanisms for content… Handheld devices are emerging as one of the most promising technologies for supporting learning and particularly collaborative learning scenarios. (Hoppe et al., 2003)

So whats the holdup in NZ?

where's wireless broadband??? (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/telecon.mp4)

Mobile Web2 Concept Map

Interactive Concept Map (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/mobileweb2concept2.htm)


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PDA's

Personal Digital Assistants - digital devices for storing information, are now more powerfull than desktop computers of just a few years ago! They are cheaper and smaller to carry than laptops, yet provide access to many of the capabilities of laptop computers.

There are two main varietys of PDAs: 1. Pocket PC, 2. Palm[2] (http://www.palm.com).

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Applications include:

  • Word, Excel, Powerpoint
  • synchronizing addressbook and calendar data
  • Audio and Video players
  • email and web browsing
  • interconnecivity with cellphones for sending and receiving SMS
  • Blogging and RSS
  • Interactive Learning Objects
  • handwriting recognition
  • Instant Messaging
  • Moodle Access
  • Network File Access
  • Access dotMac
  • the list goes on...

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Palm Demo Movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/LifeDriveDemov.html)

Example Palm Wireless applications in action (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/PalmLifeDriveScreenCast_final.mov)

The potential of PDAs is achieved with wireless connectivity, and add-on hardware (for more info see WirelessPalms).

1. Bluetooth - for short range device to device connectivity

2. WiFi - for Network and Internet connectivity

3. There are a variety of keyboard devices available, including a 'virtual keyboard'! [3] (http://www.internity.co.uk/vkb.asp) Image:VKB-animation.gif

iPods & PodCasting

Image:indexclicktop2_20050222.gif [4] (http://www.apple.com/ipod/)

The Apple iPod phenomena has revolutionized the way people listen to their favourite music. iPods are also finding their way into educational contexts. Duke University has issued free iPods to all first year students! [5] (http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/08/20/412620dfa7d23)

Latest iPod Add (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/ipod_itunes.mov)

Virtual iPod

http://www.potkast.com/preview/index.php

http://www.puissancemac.ch/similipod


iPod Touch

Adds iPhone UI and WiFi to the iPod! The January 2008 iPhone apps are available for the ipod Touch - turning the iPod into a capable PDA. Looking forward to June 2008 and the release of third party apps for the iPod Touch & iPhone!!!

Apple iPhone (http://www.apple.com/iphone)

Looks set to rock the mobile world! And provide a fantastic interface to mobile web2!

The iPhone has ignited the development of mobile web2 interfaces for many web2 sites!

e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/i


Podcasting [6] (http://ipodderx.com/)

Podcasts are RSS feeds that contain media, not just text. E.G. audio, video, images etc... Podcasts can be downloaded over the Internet to a media player such as the iPod, then listened to or viewed at the users discretion.

iTunes

The simplest solution for subscribing to Podcasts is to use Apple Computer's iTunes software, as it has builtin support for subscribing to and downloading PodCasts, and for managing them.


iTunes is a free download (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download) for Mac or PC from the Apple website.


On the Palm PDA platform, QuickNews (http://www.standalone.com/palmos/quick_news/) is a great RSS reader that also supports podcast downloading.


iPodder.org (http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware) has links to various software for Mac, PC, Linux, PocketPC, and SmartPhones.

Podomatic.com

Free Podcast hosting!

http://www.podomatic.com

Recording a Podcast in Quicktime Pro

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/podcasting.html

Download Quicktime for Mac or PC for free http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

A lot can be achieved using basic commands such as Cut/Copy/Paste/Add Scaled etc... Holding done different modifier keys ('Shift', 'Control', 'Option', 'Command') gives access to different editing options. QuickTime Pro also allows importing and exporting of a wide variety of file types.

NB: be sure to 'save as self-contained' when exporting QT movies, or else the movie file will simply be a container pointing to external files (tracks).

Converting Audio with QuickTime QuickTime allows you to import a variety of sound files and convert them to MPEG-4 AAC so you can include music on your websites, videos or slideshows. The converted AAC files not only sound great, but they also use much less space than the original file. Here's how to convert an audio file:

Step 1: Launch QuickTime. Select Import from the File menu, choose the audio file you want to convert and click Open.

Step 2: Select Export from the File menu. A Save As dialog will appear.

Step 3: Choose Movie to MPEG-4 from the Export pull-down menu. Click Options. Click the Audio tab. Choose settings appropriate for the file type. Click OK. Click Save.

Hardware Overview

A simple podcast can be recorded directly into an ipod with a microphone adaptor. However, you will most likely want to do some basic editing of your podcast, so recording your podcast on a computer allows for the most flexibilty in editing.

For computer-based recording you will need:

  • Quality microphone
  • Pop Guard
  • Audio interface for your computer (builtin hardware is usually low quality)
  • A computer
  • Software
  • Headphones


Microphones are an essential device for recording audio and converting acoustic signals into electrical signals that are then converted to digital words for manipulation by a computer. Appropriate choice of microphone type, and microphone placement, will ensure the best reproduction of the sound. A manufacturer of cost-effective quality microphones is Rode http://www.rode.com.au

There are a huge range of USB Audio Interfaces available for Mac & PC. Here's a small sampling of available units.

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=mobileinterfaces

http://www.edirol.com/products/audio.html

http://www.emagic.de/products/hw/hw/index.php?lang=EN#AUDIO

http://www.tascam.co.nz/html/products/#workstation

PSP

The Sony PSP is a great multimedia device, that is gaining new features that can be leveraged in education

http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP

The PSP features WiFi networking, a nice Web Browser, RSS feed downloading, Flash player, Music, Videos, Podcast capable, extensible for storing calendars, bookmarks, contacts etc..., and soon it will support VOIP communications.

PSP Overview Movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/PSP.mov)

PSP Add (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/PSPadd.MP4)

Presentation formatted for PSP (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/M4V13248.MP4)

PSP Synchronization

http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/pspware

http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_psp.php

Mobile Phones

Almost everyone has a Mobile Phone - so how can they be used to support learning?

Prensky, M. (2005). What can you learn from a cell phone? Almost anything! Innovate, 1(5), http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=83.

There's a recent interesting overview of what can be done using a relatively cheap cellphone in the New York Times! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/technology/25basics.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

The article is titled "Plain Cellphones Can Overachieve, With a Little Help". Worth a read.


Below are a few of examples illustrating the use of Blogging & RSS newsreading using a relatively inexpensive, Java capable phone (Sonyericsson t630)

Mobile Blogging

SMS Blogging

Create a free account with http://www.letmeparty.com , register your Blog address and cellphone number, send a text message to +13128047068 , and you're mobile blogging!

example movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/letmeparty.mov)

Java Moblogging Applications

Another option for Blogging via cellphone is to download a simple Java Blogging app for blogger.com MobileBlogger (http://www.getjar.com/products/4301/MobileBlogger) works via your blogger.com Mail-to-Blogger Address - you must set this up on your blogger.com account first, by going to 'settings' , 'email'.


KABLOG (http://www.kablog.org/) is another Java blogging application that supports a wide range of mobile phones, from basic Java1 to Symbian smartphones. Here's an example Flash movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/Tutorials/Kablog.htm) demoing the use of Kablog.


BlogPlanet (http://www.blogplanet.net) is also a free, simple but useful Java blog client for mobile phones.

Smartphone OS applications (Palm, Symbian, UIQ...)

For Palm, PPC and Symbian OS phones, look at VOX - mobile blogging for FREE!

VOX (http://www.vox.com)


ShoZu (http://www.shozu.com/) allows photo and video posting to a range of online hosting services including Flickr and YouoTube, and now MoJungle. It works on newer Java phones, or smartphones (Symbian). To see a list of compatible phones, click http://www.shozu.com/portal/tour.do?operation=showhandsets


Mobile Web2

WORDPRESS have a nice mobile interface for wordpress blogs. After creating a wordpress blog at http://www.wordpress.com point your phone browser to http://m.wordpress.com


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To see how the ctliblog looks in your mobile phone, type the url http://ctliblog.unitec.ac.nz into your mobile phones web browser (assuming you have a data account).
Or, use an online phone browser emulator such as http://emulator.mtld.mobi/

This Wordpress plugin comes courtousy of http://www.andymoore.info/wordpress-mobile-plugin/


Email Blogging

Most blog hosts support text, audio, image, and video blogging via email - you are given a secret email address for your Blog account - check in the account settings of your Blog host to find this.

Mobile Multimedia Player

Share your video and audio recordings from your cellphone using MoJungle (http://www.mojungle.com/)

You don't need a 'smartphone' for MoJungle - any phone that can do email or SMS works with MoJungle!

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Mobile RSS

Create a free account with http://www.litefeeds.com , add your favourite rss feeds, download the free Java application to your cellphone, then read your RSS feeds anywhere!

When you create your litefeeds.com account, you can also configure your Blog account, and use litefeeds to Blog from any news snippet as well!

example movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/LiteFeeds2.mov)


Flash Demo (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/Tutorials/LiteFeeds.htm)


There are several Java based RSS reader applications for mobile devices, but I haven't found one that I'm particularly impressed with yet! Another solution is to use Opera mini v3 with builtin RSS subscription - but again rather limited. (Noo opml import/export...). Perhaps a better approach is to use online RSS readers that have mobile versions, e.g.:

  • Google reader (see link below)
  • Bloglines mobile
  • Newsgator premium, or Newsgator Go (Win mobile)

Newsgator have finally seen the light - spurred on by the release of the iPhone, and produced a mobile web2 interface for their online RSS reading/synchronizing system. http://m.newsgator.com/

Mobile Bookmarking

Delicious Mona (http://www.deliciousmona.com/) Its a mobile RSS reader with mobile to delicious bookmarking capability!


mobilicious (http://mobilicio.us) delicious formatted for mobile devices.

Mobile Instant Messaging

eMSNLite (http://www.getjar.com/products/2855/eMSNLite) is a free Java application for IM on a mobilephone

commercial IM Java clients for cellphones include:

IM+ (http://www.shapeservices.com/en/index.php) works on almost any mobile device!

Causearia


YehBa (http://www.yehba.com/)

YehBa is one to keep an eye on - its developing into a multipurpose mobile client, with upcoming community and blogging features!

MUNDU (http://www.mundu.com) is a nice multiclient IM app, with an iPhone (http://iphone.mundu.com) version as well! - also works on other mobile devices.

GIZMO Combines VOIP and IM

With Gizmo for Mobile you can:
  • Make low cost international calls right from your mobile phone.
  • Save money on SMS, MMS and text messaging by instant messaging friends instead.
  • Instant message with Gizmo, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, iChat, GoogleTalk and Jabber buddies directly from your mobile phone.
  • Use file transfer to send pictures, audio and video from your mobile phone to a friend or your desktop.
  • See your friends' presence (online, offline, away, on the phone, etc) just like with Gizmo Project.
  • Use Gizmo for Mobile on your Nokia, Palm Treo, Blackberry, Motorola or hundreds of other phone models.


Pick up your phone and go to http://gizmo5.com to try it out now!

I've found Gizmo to be rather quirky - takes a long time to sign-in! A better option is FRING or NIMBUZ

FRING (http://www.fring.com) A multiclient IM app for mobile (S60, UIQ, Java), includes file transfer and SKYPE capability!

Mobile Web Browsing - Opera Mini

Opera Mini is FREE, and does a great job of web browsing on a small screen - much better than the rather lack-lustre WAP experience of yester-year! Opera Mini reduces data creating a fast mobile web-browsing experience. Opera Mini v3 (released November 2006) includes some great builtin tools/features:

  • RSS subscription
  • Direct Photo Uploading
  • Secure sign-in
  • File downloads

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OVERVIEW: http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/

SIMULATION (Live in-browser Java demo of Opera on cellphone): http://www.operamini.com/demo/

REVIEW & SLIDESHOW: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1979888,00.asp

FLASH DEMO of Opera on Cellphone: http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/Tutorials/OperaMini.html


Blogger on Cellphone via Opera Mini BloggerT630_Opera.jpg


Moodle on Cellphone via Opera Mini MoodleT630_Opera.jpg


To view Flickr on Cellphone using Opera Mini use: http://www.flickr.com/mob


Flash Demo of Social Software via Opera (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/Tutorials/OperaMiniSS.htm)

Mobispine

http://www.mobispine.com/Support/FAQ.do

Mobispine is a FREE service that provides very cost-effective Instant Messaging & Blogging facilitites for mobile phones.

These services are available between Mobispine users - it does not use standard MSN or AIM, or Blogger etc...

To see a list of supported cellphones, check http://www.mobispine.com/Support/SupportedPhones.do

Google Mobile Tools

http://www.google.com/sms/

http://sms.google.com/

http://mobile.google.com/

http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html?utm_source=us-et-more&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=gmm

http://gmail.com

Download Java GMail application: http://gmail.com/app

Note: you can even subscribe to an atom feed from your Gmail account! https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

http://www.google.com/help/reader/tour2.html

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/

Google mobile Maps http://www.google.com/gmm

Mobile version of YouTube (Note: YouTube is now owned by Google!) Finally - the mobile version of YouTibe is now live: http://m.youtube.com and you can upload videos to YouTube directly from a video capable mobile phone via MMS - every YouTube account has a 'secret' youtube mms address: xxxxxxxxxxx@mms.youtube.com

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Sync Google Calendars with your mobile/PDA using GooSync (http://www.goosync.com)

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Google Calendars are now Mobile friendly:

http://calendar.google.com

Yahoo Mobile Tools

http://mobile.yahoo.com/


Yahoo Go Yahoo! Go Mobile is available for download today on select Nokia Series 60 handsets.

http://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/mobile/on_your_mobile

Flickr mobile http://m.flickr.com/

Sign in with your Yahoo ID to access mobile Flickr.

AOL Mobile Tools

http://mobile1.aol.com/portal

point your phone browser (Opera) to http://mobile.aol.com

Mobile Codes

http://mobilecodes.nokia.com

Datamatrix Codes (Upcode)

http://www.upc.fi/en/upcode/instructions/download/

(Includes support for Sonyericsson P1i, download directly to phone at http://www.upcode.fi)

Kaywa Reader (QRCodes on camera phones)

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http://reader.kaywa.com/

Supported Phones List
http://reader.kaywa.com/en/phones#supported-phones

New Models With Built-in Tools Soon

28 February 2006 (http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pc3_1_1&zone=pc&lm=pc3_1&prid=4832), London, UK– Sony Ericsson and Google today announced that they have worked closely together to integrate Google's Blogger and Web Search features on Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The two companies are the first in the industry to provide a pre-loaded blog application with a tight integration to the mobile camera and intuitive automatic set-up for consumers who do not already have a personal blog. The first Sony Ericsson products to offer the new service are the recently announced K610 UMTS phone and new flagship imaging handsets, the K800 and K790, announced today and available in Q2 2006.

Integrating Blogger and Google Web Search in the Sony Ericsson handsets will provide a completely new experience for consumers. Icons leading to Google Web Search have been integrated into the phones user interface to provide easy access to the information that Google Web Search can provide.

SonyEricsson K610 Movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/k610_1Mbps.mov)

K610 Details (http://www.sonyericsson.com/K610/)

SonyEricsson M600 Movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/m600_1Mbps_Stream.mov)

M600 details (http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=nz&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=php1_10385&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10385)

SonyEricsson W950 Movie (http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/movies/w950_1Mbps_Stream.mov)

W950 Details (http://www.sonyericsson.com/W950/)

2007 Models

W880 (http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=nz&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pip1&zone=pp&pid=10653) Flash overview of Photoblogging from cellphone: http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=nz&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pip1&pid=10653&zone=pp#

MOTORIZR Z8 - UIQ 3 phone from Motorola

The MOTORIZR Z8 from Motorola is a HSDPA phone featuring the world's first 'kick-slider' design including a high-definition screen, two 2-megapixel cameras and a hot-swapable microSD memory slot. With high-speed connectivity via HSDPA, and a multimedia feature set that includes a brilliant 16 million colour 35x50 mm QVGA full screen display, MOTORIZR Z8 boasts video playback speeds of up to 30 frames per second. In addition to its 90MB of internal memory, the device also supports expandable memory up to 4GB using MicroSD, enough space for full length movies, hours of music or tons of pictures.


Nokia N95

Features:

  • HSDPA
  • WLAN
  • GPS
  • 5Mp camera
  • 160MB internal memory
  • 2GB memory card
  • Built-in Movie editing - c.f. iMovie, WOW!

Two-way slider design; 2.6-inch, 16-million-color screen; integrated GPS; 5-megapixel camera with 20x digital zoom, flash, and video recording; TV-out port; dual speakers; built-in music player and FM tuner; streaming media; 160MB internal memory; microSD card slot; integrated Wi-Fi (802.11b/g); Bluetooth 2.0; Universal Plug and Play; USB 2.0; wireless Web browser; Series 60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1; PIM tools; document viewer; e-mail; text and multimedia messaging; speakerphone; voice dialing; world roaming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dleVB00AZFQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuAVhAO7zwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNprjNgRPKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2fgRqwweA


Sonyericsson P1

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10864

The P1 adds WLAN and a 3.2 MP camera to the M600i


Nokia E90

Expensive, big, heavy... BUT a full qwerty keyboard built-in, similar specs to N95, AND 800x365 screen!!!

It's a laptop replacement!

Multipurpose Mobile Web2 Tools

  • Shozu
  • Nokia WidSets
  • YehBa
  • VOX (http://www.vox.com)
  • Mobispine
  • Blue Pulse (http://www.bluepulse.com)
  • Jaiku (http://jaiku.com/mobile) Jaiku now has a mobile web2 interface as well: http://m.jaiku.com/

Shozu

http://www.shozu.com

Supported Phones: (http://www.shozu.com/resources/portal/support/en/selectphone.html)

Nokia WidSets

Customizable widgets for Java2 cell phones - free from Nokia!

http://www.widsets.com/ (http://www.widsets.com/)

Have a Go! - Tutorial Links

MobileBlogging NOTE you are creating online accounts that require a username and password that you must remember!. My advice is to use the same username & password for them all - so you don't forget it! A real email address is also required by these services for authenicating your account!

1. Create a Blog

http://www.vox.com (VOX includes elements of an eportfolio and social networking - and is ideally suited to creating interactive collaborative environments. It's also very mobile friendly!)

http://www.blogger.com

OR

http://www.wordpress.com

You can then access your Wordpress blog using your cellphones web browser (as long as you have setup your Internet settings and have a data plan!) at: http://m.wordpress.com


If you do not have a decent web browser on your phone, but your phone is Java capable, then download Opera Mini (http://www.operamini.com/) - its a fantastic, FREE, Java web browser that works on almost all Java capable phones.


To setup your phones Internet settings - see your phone operators instructions:


NOTE: If you do not have a data plan, you will be charged at the 'casual data' rate:

  • Vodafone = 1c per Kb = $10000/GB!
  • NOTE Vodafone have recently changed their 'casual data' costs, you now get 10MB cap per day for $1 - that's a hundred fold price drop in casual data - about time!
  • Telecom = 5c per Kb = $50000/GB!!

Get a data plan & save $$$$!

2. Create an account on Letmeparty.com

http://www.letmeparty.com

Now you can Blog via SMS to your Blogger or Wordpress blog!

3. Create an account at Google.com

First signup for GMail (http://www.gmail.com) - its free, and your GMail username & password will get you into all of the other Google services as well!

NOTE: You can view your GMail on your mobile phone by pointing its web browser to http://gmail.com, alternatively you can download the free GMail Java application (http://gmail.com/app) to your phone for more mobile features.

Create a Google Reader account

http://www.google.com/reader/

Add (subscribe) your Blog 'feed' to Google reader:


Now read your feeds on your mobile phone by pointing its web browser to the mobile version of google reader: http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/


NOTE: Opera Mini has a builtin RSS reader - so you can subscribe to RSS feeds using Opera Mini on your cellphone.
The main downsides are:

  • The RSS subscriptions are only available on your cellphone
  • Opera Mini has limited memory and categorization features compared to Google Reader

4. Create an account on Flickr.com

http://www.flickr.com

Now you can upload and view your pictures from your camera phone at http://m.flickr.com


NOTE: Opera Mini also features a photoblogging (http://www.operamini.com/features/photoblog/) capability for camera phones - you must setup an account at My Opera (http://my.opera.com/community/) first to create your free Opera Photo Blog, then you can send photos directly from Opera Mini on your camera phone to your Opera Blog.

5. Signup for Instant Messaging on your cellphone

http://join.msn.com/messenger/overview/

Then download the free Java application for MSN for your cellphone: http://www.getjar.com/products/2855/eMSNLite