Here’s a quick post about mobile blogging with the Kohjinsha SA1 Ultra Mobile PC.
There’s four three things that I want to show in this blog.
- How to do a high quality photo post to Flickr in 60 seconds.
- How to do a mobile photo blog using LiveWriter
- The typing experience on the SA1
In the videos below you will see me write the live section of this post (I will have posted this blog entry live during my video recording.)
———-LIVE SECTION STARTS HERE—————-
This is the Kohji SA1. I’m using it to demo near-live photo bloging. The keyboard is very small but i’ve got used to it now and can type with a fair rate of accuracy and a good speed. I also ike this you can thumb the keyboad.
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Here’s the Flickr image
The quality of the video (below) is not great because I had to use a web cam to record the video but in it you can see the very quick post to flikr and, what I think is more interesting, the use of the Kohjinsha, the Canon, 3G connection and LiveWriter to edit and post a blog. The technology is nothing new but it demonstrates how low-power mobile computing ties it all together. The total weight of the hardware is about 2Kilos and the power drain is about 8w. The whole thing could be run from lightweight solar panels.
We’re forecast some cold weather here in the next week. If it starts snowing in the hills near me I’ll try and get out with the Kohji and a hip-flask to do some live work from the hills.
I’m also looking into getting one of these solar kits. Anyone had any experience with them? I’m guessing the 12W one would be good enough. I need it to be able to directly power the Kohji via some sot of regulator. Or is there a regulator built into all notebook charging circuits? More research needed here methinks!
The 9 min 64MB 640×480 wmv file is here
YouTube version below.
For more info on Digital Photography and blogging with a UMPC, take a look at my previous article about using a UMPC for digital photography.
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:04 am
oh, are you editing video on umpc???
You should not do it!
- Microsoft Vista team
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:53 am
Unfortunately, because the video was shot with the Logitech webcam on a desktop, I edited it there.
I will do another video soon demoing WMM on a 500Mhz sub-kilo notebook at 8W drain! Becaus of the fast SD card and easo-of-use, the end-to-end time isn’t much slower than doing it on a desktop.
The videos are up now BTW.
Steve.