TypePad Mobile for iPhone released

I hope this doesn’t mean I’ll need to double my daily post quantity, but TypePad just made it easier to blog from the iPhone. I tried to use the standard TypePad interface in Safari when I first bought the iPhone and while it generally worked, I was unable to add any images. The standard interface was also a bit clunky for a mobile device and I didn’t feel like I could use it on a regular basis with the handheld. That all changes now that TypePad has a mobile client specifically desgined for the iPhone. The new interface complements their already existing web clients for Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian and is easy to access at http://i.typepad.com. Kudos to Jenn K. Lee for giving me the heads up! Jenn, if I write twice as many posts, it’s all your fault.

I spent a few minutes with the new client this morning and it looks very usable with a few minor nuances; direct image uploads aren’t possible, which makes sense since you’re really not storing images other than your own photos on the iPhone. You have to e-mail images to the TypePad server for any availability. Additionally, I didn’t see a way to select multiple categories for posts so I had to finish this post on a full web client.