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I just wanted to test out the Android app wpToGo on my new Android Droid phone. I gave a review on the iPhone app not too long ago so I only thought it would be fare to review this one as well.

First downside with Android itself is there’s no way to take a screenshot. On the iPhone you could just press two button to do this – very useful feature. So this review may be all text.

The editor comes with 4 preset formatting buttons – bold, italic, link, and blockquote. To apply for formatting, you just highlight the words you want to format first then press one of the format buttons. Basically it just wraps the text in a strong, em, anchor, or blockquote html tag.

Would have been nice to have a visual editor but oh well.

Adding picture is pretty straight forward. You just choose a picture from your phone and I’m assuming it’s going to automatically upload them and place them at the bottom of the page. (Update: nope – it places the FULL IMAGE at the top of the post! This needs to be fixed) Would have liked the ability to choose where the picture goes – like left align near the top paragraph or some control. Not a huge deal though.

Next you have you tags and category options. For tags you just enter each tag separated with a comma. The categories are done nicely though. It pulls in the already exisiting categories from the site into a drop down menu. It even allows you to choose multiple categories – very nice!

Finally you have the ability to publish now or I assume save as local draft. I’m going to test the draft feature since I want to know if it stores the draft on the site so I can go in and edit it later before it’s published.

All in all I think the app is great for a portable way to post to you blog. I would defiantly recommend checking it out. The app is free and can be found in the Android market place as wpToGo.

(All pictures taken from Motorola Droid)

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