Six Apart released a native mobile client for select BlackBerry phones, Pearl and Curve included. The mobile application will “enable” CrackBerry users to enhance addiction to their beloved handset, by allowing them to upload photos, manage comments, and draft, edit and post to their TypePad blogs. Yes, this means that you can take a photo and instantly upload it to your blog, without moving the file to your computer first.
Aside from supporting RIM’s devices, Six Apart also has mobile clients for Symbian S60, Windows Mobile and Palm OS platforms. Now, with the addition of BlackBerry platform, we expect to see many of the blogs being updated more frequently. After all, you do want to put that QWERTY/SureType to some extra use, don’t you? 😉
Hop over to www.typepad.com/mobile to download the app, or check out the full release which follows after the jump.
PRESS RELEASE – Six Apart, the world’s leading blogging software and services company, today announced availability of a native mobile blogging application for the Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl smartphones that lets users upload photos, manage comments, and draft, edit and post to their TypePad blogs with just a few clicks.
TypePad customers can now easily capture and upload photos directly from their Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl phones to their blogs wirelessly. TypePad bloggers can also use their device to compose draft blog posts, store them for later editing or publish them from within the device’s trackball and keyboard interface. In creating and saving drafts for later editing, bloggers are able to use popular desktop publishing controls with the convenience of mobile blogging.
TypePad members who use any Blackberry model have always been able to post to their blogs via the mobile browser and the email-to-blog feature. The new native application for the Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl rounds out these offerings by making mobile blogging even easier.
“TypePad has always been the leader in mobile blogging, and we’ve spent years creating dedicated clients for popular platforms. The addition of the Blackberry mobile platform extends Six Apart’s leadership in mobile blogging,” said Stephane Delbecque, mobile product manager at Six Apart. “Our commitment is to help our community blog from wherever they are, powering blogging on-the-go by providing the best mobile solutions available.”
Six Apart leads in the mobile blogging space as the only blogging company to support over 90% of the fast-growing smartphone market, including Symbian Series 60, Windows Mobile and Palm. A native application for the Apple iPhone will also soon be available.
By providing an exclusive TypePad solution for Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl, Six Apart opens up mobile blogging to the most popular mobile platform in the US smartphone market. And TypePad’s status as the professional-grade blogging service is a perfect match for the professional focus of Blackberry users.
To download the TypePad application for the Blackberry or to start a free TypePad trial, visit http://www.typepad.com/mobile.