Setting up and using Blogger on the Sony Ericsson C510

As one of Sony Ericsson's Cyber-shot branded range of handsets, the C510 is geared up for imaging. It has a 3.2-megapixel camera built in with autofocus system, and has a selection of shooting features that are more advanced than your average cameraphone.

If you want to share some of the results with others, you can send them in messages in the usual way - or you can upload them to a blog or other online image sharing service. Like most of Sony Ericsson's recent handsets, one of the options available when a picture has been taken, or when browsing images in a gallery, is to send them to a Web site.

On the C510 Sony Ericsson has included software that allows you to upload images directly to a Blogger account, straight from the phone in a few easy clicks. Blogger is one of the upload options pre-defined in the phone's My Web sites list of upload sites, along with Picasa Web Album and MySpace. Users can add their own specific account email details for existing Picasa and MySpace accounts, or choose to add other details for alternative online upload services of their choice.

With the Blogger option, if users don't already have an online account they can create a blog automatically from the phone simply by sending an image to the site. One will be automatically set up, and you will receive details of the address and password details, so you can visit it and update it online.

Here's how to do it...

Sending images to Blogger
Sending images to a website is one of the options available when you first take a photograph, or you can send images you've previously taken by selecting them from the phone's photo gallery.

Uploading an image from the photo gallery
First, you need to choose the picture you want to upload.

1. In standby, press the Media softkey (Figure 1).
2. Highlight Photo (Figure 2). Press Select.
3. Highlight the image viewing option you want to browse (Figure 3). Press Select.
4. Select the album you wish to view, and scroll through the images until you find the one you want to upload (Figure 4). Press the left Options softkey.
5. Scroll down to highlight Send (Figure 5). Press Select.
6. Scroll down to highlight To Web site (Figure 6). Press Select.
7. You are now taken into the My Web sites menu. Scroll to highlight the option you want to use - in this example, Blogger (Figure 7). Press Select.
8. The first time you use the Blogger service, you have to agree to the Terms of service (Figure 8). To do this, press OK.
9. A New blog post screen appears. You can type in the title you want to give the post and add text. Highlight the appropriate panel and press Edit.
10. When you've finished typing in the text you want to appear on your blog (Figure 9), press OK.
11. To send to the blog, press Publish (Figure 10).
12. A message appears: Creating blog and publishing post (Figure 11).
13. Your new Blogger blog address will be automatically added to your C510's bookmarks, so you can visit it straight from the phone (Figure 12).
14. In a few moments you will receive a message which has details of your online Blogger account, with password and web address  (Figure 13).
15. You can visit your mobile blog online on your phone or PC, and edit it after posting (Figure 14).

Your Blogger account details are automatically stored in My Web sites, so you can upload any pictures you like from the phone.

Simply choose a photo and send to the Blogger option on the My Web sites screen as outlined above, and the image will be automatically uploaded to the account you have created.

Uploading an image you've just taken
In a similar way, you can quickly upload an image you've just taken with the camera

1. When you've taken a photo, press the Send option (Figure 15).
2. Scroll down to highlight To Web site (Figure 16). Press Select.
3. You are now taken into the My Web sites menu (Figure 7).
4. Follow the same procedure outlined above to either open a new account automatically, or add the image to the account you have created on the C510