Moblogging requirements

In this post I'll briefly describe the equipment I'm using.

Firstly you need a phone. Any email-enabled camera phone will do, if all you require is the ability to send photographs to Flickr. I needed the functionality of a smart phone, (I'll explain why in future posts). After doing some research, I picked the Nokia 6630. It 's discontinued, and therefore available cheaply on E Bay; though in the end I brought a reconditioned handset from the Orange web site. Although it looks a bit silly, (a Body Glove case sorts that out) the phone has every concievable feature, and the Symbian 60 series operating system, which means that it can run a variety of useful software including 3D Tracking.

The phone is all you need for moblogging, though to track your position, you'll also need a bluetooth GPS. I brought a cheap BT77 unit from E Bay. Compared to a traditional hand-held GPS, like the Garmin Etrex, the unit is tiny and yet more powerful, you can turn it on, stick it in your pocket and forget its there. The Bluetooth connection works extremely well with the phone.

This is all the hardware I'm using. In the next post I'll run through how I set this blog up as a moblog.