As a fan of the true portability of mobile technology and my new found passion for blogging I needed a way to jot down my thoughts whilst not sat at the laptop.

I am writing this post with the Wordpress iPhone app and am very impressed with its ease of use and functionality.

I find myself asking the question Can the iPhone replace the paper notebook?

I have been pushing the boundries with my technology for many years now and as a person afflicted with bad handwriting have always sought a digital alternative to the paper notepad.

I first began using a digital method to capture notes on the HP TC1100 Tablet Computer in 2002 which came loaded with Windows XP Tablet. It was great for taking handwritten digital notes and did a pretty good job of translating my terrible handwriting. The notes were also searchable which made them much more useful than standard notebook notes.

Unfortunately 8 years on and no one has produced a better Tablet Computer, although its set to change this year with Apples iPad and other Tablet devices coming out later.

I therefore find myself constantly turning to my trusty iPhone for all manor of applications, one being digital note taking.

The power that an iPhone can put in your pocket is made possible by the huge community of iPhone app developers and the App Store.

When I searched the App Store for Wordpress I was greeted with the official, open source app, awesome!

Installed, up and running and blogging on the iPhone.

Whilst not as fast as the laptop the ability to whip out your phone and write a quick blog entry is hugely useful. You dont need to be online so you can write on the train without the fear of losing the connection and just save to drafts locally.

The app did bomb me out whilst adding new categories and switching back to the blog body and I was poised to bin it. However when I loaded my blog back up I was kindly informed that I had an unsaved blog and it had been recovered. Wordpress have a history of not leaving you in the lurch with unsaved work and the iPhone app is no exception.

Adding tags and assigning to categories is a breeze, Ill need to log in to the main admin panel to check spelling and search engine optimisation, but this app and I could become new best friends!

For me its about convenience, ease of use, portability and a better way of getting my thoughts down on the move than with my appauling handwriting. You know what; the iPhone and Wordpress app come pretty close to ticking all the boxes, I cant wait to see how the iPad improves on this.