iPad Blogging Subtleties

I'm now done with Salute for the day - lots of toys to play with and some great games to investigate. More on these later...

For now, my brief iPad Blogging experiment has finished and the results are in. Typing up a simple Text Blog post is easy to do, and - so long as I've got a static subject - so too is embedding a photo taken with the iPad, at the same time. However. I took a fair number of pictures on my digital camera - it's simply a far superior device, especially given the subject matter at somewhere like Salute - but I can't get these onto my iPad and therefore into a Blog post.

Even worse, photos taken with my iPhone are similarly locked into that device unless I'm in a WiFi zone. Despite having Bluetooth on both pieces of kit, they won't talk to each other because I've not paid O2 a fee to enable iPhone tethering. Ultimately this isn't a big deal - I've actually got an iPad digital camera connector kit, which accepts SD cards. If I'd remembered to bring it with me, I could easily have used that to swap the card and import the photos to the iPad.

It's just annoying that I've got 3 pieces of kit costing in excess of £1000' yet they can't share a jpeg amongst them without physically moving storage or paying for some kind of wireless or telecoms service.

In future the digital camera connector will be packed alongside the camera, which should have been obvious to me in hindsight. What it has highlighted is that the camera on the iPad is a bit unwieldy in some social situations and it's better to use the digital camera and connection kit than go with the more compact iPhone - it may be convenient and unobtrusive but without WiFi your digital snaps are unavailable.

Oh, and the reason I don't have access to the useful Excel WiFi service is coz I'm on the train back to sunny Southend :).