The other day I was required to update my insurance information. I find it interesting that in this day and age we are still using paper as our primary mode of information exchange with regards to personal data. With the cost of healthcare spinning out of control, one must wonder where are the oppertunities to help aliviate the bleeding. If I look at it on a personal, I see the paper trail as a massive drag on cost. Think about that for a minute on the number of hands that will need to touch my record. From the person who transfers my paper information to the people that manages the accounts of a region. We are not even talking about the number of hands that touch my record during a doctor’s visit or when I fill out a prescription. Now take one individual’s data and multiply that by tens of millions. One sheet of paper enacts a process of wasteful spending that though I worry about, have no solution for. Why? Because to aliviate that cost factor will require the removal of countless hands and elevated unemployment.

So as I sat and waited, I accept the necessary need to perform this task. Adding tech is not always a possibility when trying to mobilize a society.

Testing yet another tool that will allow me to post on the go. It is called wpToGo from Roundhill Labs. You can download the app from the market on your G1. This is a test post with a pic of my Sony Reader I took with my phone.

So I am mobile blogging again. First attempt using the mobile plugin as an editor was ok but not great. I moved on to using the wphone plugin and I must say, it is like night and day. You gain near full access to all the features on the backend of your Wordpress install. Writing a post is actually practical on the G1 now. I guess I really have no excuse to post now.

Posted by mobile phone:
Even though th G1 can fully render my blog backend interface, it was a pain to post an entry with it. I had this mobile plugin for awhile but never really used it. Well I think it is time. If you like what you see from your phone and have a wordpress blog, give Andy Moore’s mobile plugin a try. The posting interface is not that bad. Will give it a more through testing when something is seriously chewing on my mind.

Well it has been a crazy week. We launched our app with minimal fanfair, as it should be. Darn app has been on deck for what it seems like forever. Also new this week was the release of T-Mobile’s G1. Keyla, me and everyone on my dev team got the geek toy, well almost Tommy will cave soon. All of us have been playing with Android for the last two weeks and were looking forward to the new phone. I was not expecting a line when I got to the T-Mobile store on launch morning but surprisingly I was eighth in line.

So far the phone has been incredibly fun to play and use. The screen is very responsive and flicks works well. The track ball is a godsend when links are too small for the finger and works great on games. The UI is intuitive and rock stable. I have the music app, chat and pacman running without any problems. Multitasking works very well on th G1.

Keyboard is better than expected as I am posting this entry using the interface. Also the browser is robust enough to fully render all my tools in Wordpress. But the coolest feature is the notification bar. Regardless it is from my chats to calls or voicemail, I am kept informed by the bar.

The phone is without some issues. The battery sucks! Being connected to the cloud kills the phone. You have to be near a charger constantly. Thankfully you can usb charge as well. Coverage also is spotty. Verizon had a great network but crappy phones. T-Mobile is just the opposite. AT&T has the best of both but has crazy expensive plans. As for hardware issues, Bob reported that switching from wireless to cell causes his phone to lock up.

All in all, not a bad experience. Andriod SDK version 1.0 is very easy to get into, so much so that some of my guys has already developed applications as proof of concept.  I hope to join them soon with mine.  Oh and one last thing, this will probably be my last post from the G1 until there is a dedicated app for Wordpress. Yes you can post but for something this long is murder on the eyes.  Hmm, that will be a small micro app project for me to work with!