SixApart has announced a native blogging module for RIM Blackberries. That’s the good news.
The bad news is, it’s only for blogging to TypePad blogs.
TypePad customers can now easily capture and upload photos directly from their Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl phones to their blogs wirelessly. TypePad bloggers can also use their device to compose draft blog posts, store them for later editing or publish them from within the device’s trackball and keyboard interface. In creating and saving drafts for later editing, bloggers are able to use popular desktop publishing controls with the convenience of mobile blogging.
TypePad members who use any Blackberry model have always been able to post to their blogs via the mobile browser and the email-to-blog feature. The new native application for the Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl rounds out these offerings by making mobile blogging even easier.
Which is swell, for TypePad users, not-so-much for Movable Type users.
At the 6A news blog, there was an immediate (if not overwelming) set of requests for MT support for this. Anil said it sounded like a keen idea (duh). We’ll see what comes of it.