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Blogger Widget: Homescreen

I have been waiting since long for a proper blogger client to let me blog directly from my 5800. The wait has been rather long, with Google overlooking symbian platform in favour of iPhone and its very own Android platform. Thanks to phoneytunes.com, now I don’t have to wait for Google to come up with a blogger client for my 5800.Blogger widget is not a full fledged blogger client but it does provide basic blogger services like new post, edit post and view post.

Installation

Blogger widget can be downloaded from ovi store client or the ovi webstore. For some reason, this widget is yet to appear on the ovi webstore but it was very much available on ovi client, from where I downloaded it to my 5800 and before I forget, yeah its free!

Its a 420 kb set up file, that will take around 5-10 s to download over wi-fi and the preceeding installation is quick, without any settings to be chosen whatsoever, during the course of installation. You should be able to fire up the application and start blogging in around a min (including download and installation).Features

As I said earlier, this is a very basic blogger widget which brings basic blogger functions to our 5800s. By basic I mean, users can update their blog, but thats limited to only text and there is no support for inserting pictures and videos from the widget itself. This is one feature am eagerly waiting for and till now its been one long frustrating wait and this widget is no solution either. I would be very glad if any developer comes up with an application that can provide these options.

Blog compose mode

Posting from the widget works great. I drafted a sample text only post and the whole posting process is very simple. Just click on new post, login with your blogger id (you need to type the whole email addreess, including gmail.com for logging in) and a compose window as seen in the adjacent screenshot appears. Just type the post and type on submit, thats it, your blog has been updated.

I couldn’t check the edit posts and view posts section as the widget either didnt respond or crashed contniously when I tried to attempt the same (Check the gallery below for the white screen which continuosly appeared when I tried to edit post and view post from the widget). I would be glad if any of our readers are able to get this working and leave some feedback here.

Pros

1. Fairly well designed widget for a touch screen device
2. Posting new posts is simple and fast

Cons

1. No support for uploading pictures and videos directly from the widget
2. Username and Password cannot be saved on the widget
3. Doesn’t respond as fast as some other widgets in market today

Verdict

While am very glad that there is some widget/application at last that brings blogger access to symbian 5th edition devices, am rather unhappy with the feature set and performance of the widget. Other than updating blog(text only), there are no features whatsoever to talk about that can be done from the widget. My hunt for that blogger client is still on and I hope to find one soon. Ofcourse there is Blog Live, which is highly rated blogging application but for some reason I am not able to setup the client for my blogger account (have no idea what xmlrpc URL refers to). I even contacted the tech team of bloglive which pointed the finger on blogger and till now (its been like 2 months now), I am waiting for someone to answer my querry in the blogger forum. Coming back to this widget, it may not offer an attractive feature set but considering that its a free widget, a widget and not a client, you may want to try this widget and above everything its free. Posting fro the widget is definitely faster and easier than posting from opera mini browser. So if you have a blogger account, this widget is something you would want to have on your 5800.