{"id":1287,"date":"2007-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1287"},"modified":"2019-03-16T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:38:09","slug":"lg-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/lg-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago I mentioned that I had received a LG Shine phone from the LG Shine blogger relations programme<\/a>. I’ve started to investigate\/play around to see if it can be of use in my teaching.<\/p>\n

As someone who doesn’t usually use a mobile phone much I am not in a position to review the phone and compare it to others. I can say it seems pretty straightforward to use for a newbie.<\/p>\n

\"\"The camera seems to work well except for the lag between clicking the shutter and taking a picture. The picture quality looks ok to me too, here is a random picture of my desk using the macro facility and the unusual flash (the mirror just lights up). I’ve had a few children take photos and they had no problem.<\/p>\n

I’ve only tried the video camera briefly and have no complaints. I’ve also used the voice recorder the quality does not sound as good as my iRiver and i guess it would be best for one voice rather than a conversation. The file format is amr, I guess that would be best converted befor sending it to the web.<\/p>\n

I listened to the latest Booruch<\/a> podcast on the way home from work today and it sounded good. Flicking through audio, image and other files is quite easy with the scroll wheel.<\/p>\n

It was straightforward to set up bluetooth with a macbook and dell latitude transferring file is simple via this or USB.<\/p>\n

Email was again was easy to set up sending and receiving is pretty simple. It is also easy to send an image file via email.<\/p>\n

What I am really interested in is using the phone to send stuff to the website\/ blogs. I’ve tried a few approaches:<\/p>\n

Pivot has a moblog functionality, which I managed to get working last November, but I have completely failed to do so this time arround.<\/p>\n

As a workaround it is easy to post photos to Flickr<\/a>, but that is of limited use as we cannot use flickr in school. I have been experimenting with pulling the images from flickr to the sandaig site: Sandaig MoBlog<\/a>. One of my class posted a photo easily, you can tell which one is hers because it has got a long description, my texting is not up to it yet. I am not sure if this is a great idea in the long term.<\/p>\n

The other thing I’ve been testing (see the last few posts) is BlogMailr<\/a> a service that provides an email to blog solution. So far I’ve not managed to get this working, the html is a bit mangled. I am not sure why, but I had the same problem posting to wordpress<\/a> so I don’t think it is a pivot metaWebLog problem.<\/p>\n

So as soon as I can I am going to try and let the class loose with the phone, both as a tool to play with and as a way to start discussing the use of mobile phones. I’ve started collecting some links tagged with “mobile” on del.icio.us<\/a>, if you know of any others let me know (tag them for:troutcolor if you have a moment).<\/p>\n

I’d also like to know of any other free mobile to blog solutions out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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