The magazine shop at Begumpet Railway Station was closed today morning. After searching frantically for a weekly mag in the surrounding newspaper stalls, which I would try to devour in my subsequent train journeys, and finding none, I returned back to the platform. Having nothing more to do before the train arrives, I tried to check out if I could use the "send to blog" feature in my Sony Ericsson K800i mobile phone to post pictures to my blog. I had tried this earlier, sometime last year in Indonesia, using their Indosat service. And had failed. This time it worked! Cheers to Airtel postpaid!
How this got achieved: First, selected a picture (it's an obscure one, that of a full moon taken from the railway station platform, while returning home one evening). Then clicked on 'Send'->'To blog'. Added the title, text, and clicked 'Publish'. A moving progress bar indicated that the data is being uploaded and the blog is being published. After successful upload, I received an SMS, containing the blog address (http://rapail754.blogspot.com) and instructing how to edit the blog entry. I chose to edit (where I had to login using my current blog credentials), after which I got an option of either keeping the picture in the newly created mobile blog (rapail754), or posting it to my "Railroad blues". Wow! I chose "Railroad blues", and the picture got posted there. 'rapail754' got removed.
Subsequently, whenever I would send any picture from my mobile, it would come in directly to this blog.
A neat job of service convergence done by Sony Ericsson (whose full potential I am getting to see slowly), Blogger, of course supported by Airtel GPRS.
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