Ok, so it shows that I've had a bit of a free day from work today, though free is probably the wrong word as busy with the family. I've had some fre thought and came up with a self challenge of writing this post on my mobile phone.
It's not the greatest idea for a post as it is literally about "can I write this post on my phone"!
Now. I'm pretty sure that in the past I've written posts on my previous phones but I'm unsure. I'm unsure if I wrote some, all. Did I create the featured image? There are lots of if and buts rattling around - so I thought dedicating a post about writing a post on the phone while writing the post would be good symmetry.
It also means I can write it as it happens. Real time, well for me, writing.
In the past I've written posts on an iPad which is great as keyboard is big, well compared to a phone. See, I suffer with chunky-finger-litus... I don't have small hands ans certainly not small fingers.
I often find that my texts to people contain strange words. Words were my fingers mistype and the phone calculates the word to something strange or out if context.
Do, I do find myself being a little more careful while typing a full post on this tiny keyboard.
Don't get me wrong, I have a Samsung phone with something like a 6.5in screen, so the keyboard is quite big compared to phones in the past. It's still easy to mistype.
However, this issue is proving to be a bit of a bonus because I am taking more time abs actually reading what I am writing.
So, type wise it is a little slower and there are some miss types. Over all though it's not a bad experience.
That said, the real challenge would be typing with little Mr pulling at me.
Typing done, well not quite. Next challenge is making the featured post. Now I use a service I paid for to do mine, but it is easy enough to use canva or similar on the phone.
If you were going for a photo then you could just do with the phone camera dynamically, just when you needed it.
However... this is why my challenge failed. Now, if I were using canva I could have created the image, infact I should have, I may even do. I use a service called RelayThat. I use them because I bought a life time deal and it is easy and simple to create featured images all the same.
However, RelayThat says it does not support smart devices when I try to edit an image. Fail!
If I were to rely on it for my post image creation I would fail any challenge. If I only had my phone to write posts then I would fail. Which is disappointing as today's phones are just powerhouses for computing power.
This phone is so much more powerful than any of my computers last century. Just sounds better when say that way. I had many including Intel based systems and this phone would leave them in its smoke.
As it turned out, Canva worked well.
Yes I can create a post on my phone. It is possible to blog on a phone, though designing your page maybe a little beyond capability at the moment. Though I'm sure its not too far off being completely mobile capable.