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About eight yours ago, I purchased my first PDA. It was a Windows Mobile phone from Cingular, before it was bought out by AT&T. Back then, I never considered that I’d be writing on my blog from a mobile phone, as I’m doing now.

That first phone was a Cingular 8125, and I bought it so that I could access Ebay while attending antique auctions. My plan was to look up the market value (average completed sale price) of an item so that I knew the max I could bid on an item without taking a loss.

Riding the Wave of a Technical Trend

The plan was clever, because at the time, noone was using mobile Internet…it had just hit the market and hadn’t quite caught on yet.

The plan wasn’t foolproof though. First, I had to figure out how to get the phone to access full browsing, not the scaled-down ‘media-net’. As insane as it sounds, most of the help desk folks didn’t know the difference. So, I was on my own to figure it out using tips fromk the gurus in the various mobile phone forums.

Next, I learned that the mobile version of Facebook didn’t offer a view of completed items. Once again, I had to figure out how to trick the Ebay website into thinking I wasn’t a mobile phone. Once I accomplished that, I was in business.

Unfortunately, in full browsing mode, conducting the completed item searches on Ebay was unbearably slow. I realized that living life on the technological edge of the mobile Internet was not going to be easy.

Finally, the ease of use of mobile technology is becoming much more manageable. Everything comes pre-programmed and ready to go. Upgrading to the Motorola Droid this year was the best thing I ever did.

It helps me to blog more often than I ever could before, with a very cool mobile Wordpress app called WPtoGo. It let’s you post full blog entries, complete with formatting, pictures, links and more. It rocks, and I highly suggest it to other blogger riding this mobile tech wave into the future.