Lost in the excitement over the announcement of the new, 3G iPhone at the Apple WWDC yesterday was a big announcement from TypePad about their native iPhone blogging application. For you corporate or business related bloggers, this was probably no big deal - you are not likely to be using TypePad. But it does signal that mobile devices have finally reached the big time when it comes to being productivity tools, rather than just toys (or corporate email devices like the Blackberry.)

The Treo and Blackberry introduced the qwerty keyboard and made managing your calendar, to-do lists, and email a tolerable exercise and for some of us an addictive experience. Text messaging notes to Twitter even took off with later Blackberry models. But it seemed that the smart-phone market was going to be relegated to mostly boring (Blackberry/Treo,) or mostly silly (Sidekick.)

The iPhone, with it’s integrated camera and full HTML browser have signaled the move to portable computing rather than portable data - which is a big shift for bloggers. TypePad, is mostly a personal blogging tool, but by building a native iPhone application it makes posting and editing blogs, approving comments, and adding photos seamless. In fact, the built in camera might make blogging from your iPhone easier than the traditional method on your PC.

I’m sure Movable Type is right behind their consumer focused brother TypePad in developing an interface for iblogging. Which means that the Wordpress nation will be close behind. 3G speed and brilliant integration just made the iPhone blogging the next big thing.

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