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Found on the Mobile Web #224
Welcome to Found on the Mobile Web, a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2286 mobile sites.
Travis Berry m.travisberry.com Web designer/developer and video production specialist, Travis Berry's blog has loads of good articles on web development techniques and a portfolio of his designs and videos. Mobile view by Mobify.
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Symbian Foundation Blog blog.symbian.org The official voice of The Symbian Foundation. Content includes news, product announcements and high-level technical discussions relating to the popular open source mobile operating system.
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Londonist mobile.londonist.com An online magazine about London with news, event listings, reviews of art, theater, concerts, exhibits, galleries, pubs and restaurants. Source: Taptu Touch Web Report (PDF)
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ClubListNow www.clublistnow.com/mobile2.php A nightclub portal that lists exclusive events in major US cities and lets you submit your name and your friend's names to the guest list and reserve VIP tables. The "Touch Web" site requires JavaScript. Source: Taptu Touch Web Report
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BeachWatch (UK) www.beachwatch.info Hourly wind speed and direction report, three day forecast and tide tables for UK windsurfers and beachgoers in an compact, attractive and easy to use format that should work on all phones. Source: Taptu Touch Web Report
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Mobile Royale mobileroyale.co.cc/?mobile=1 Mobile Royale is a general mobile blog offering news, software and device reviews for all mobile platforms. The mobile edition was created using the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress
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Microsoft.mobi microsoft.mobi Microsoft recently launched this consumer facing mobile portal which has links to all the MSN and Microsoft Live mobile properties (Messenger, Hotmail, Spaces. etc) along with Windows Phone downloads, promotional pages for Office 2010, Zune HD and Xbox 360 and a Mobile Support answer bot. Source: Mobility.mobi Content: Usability:
Smart Facts smartfacts.mobi IBM's new mobile site targeting corporate decision makers with a series of "Smart Facts" about successful businesses or business practices. The Facts pieces don't overtly promote IBM products and services but offer readers an emailed IBM White Paper on each Smart Facts topic. Source: Mobility.mobi
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EW.com Mobile m.ew.com The online mobile edition of Time Warner's Entertainment Weekly magazine has entertainment news, critical reviews of movies, books, music and TV series and specials and recaps of the most recent episodes of popular series.
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US Local News by State/Iowa - Michigan
MLive Michigan mobile.mlive.com MLive.com provides 24/7 news, information, classified ads and job listings for Michiganders. It covers Ann Arbor, Bay City, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Saginaw and Statewide news. Source: operaminisites.mobi
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Tagged Entertainment, FOMW, London, mobile, Tech, Weather
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iPhone Only Web Sites Are Bad Business
Houston TV channel KRIV recently launched FoxRad.mobi. It's a standalone mobile weather site that isn't linked to the channel's main mobile news (including weather) site at wap.myfoxhouston.com. FoxRad provides very comprehensive weather information for Houston area residents with national, regional and local forecasts and radar maps. At the local level FoxRad.mobi provides a separate forecast page and radar map for each of the 18 counties making up metro Houston. It's a great resource for anyone who needs detailed, timely weather information on the go.
Unfortunately, FoxRad.mobi is an iPhone only site. Well that's not strictly so, every device that's not an iPhone gets redirected to a rather meh one page static affair with a couple of weather maps plus current and 7 day forecasts. The four images on that page are 640x480 affairs re-sized to 320x240 using CSS, which means the large un-resized images have to be downloaded to the phone and re-sized locally, wasting bandwidth, processor cycles and battery juice. The unnecessarily big images also make the page nearly 300kb in size, too large for most feature phones.
You can override FoxRad's browser detection and get the iPhone version on any phone by going to media2.myfoxhouston.com/foxradmobi/iphone. If one uses that unweildly and undocumented URL, all the features of the enhanced version work perfectly on an HTC Dream Android phone and with Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 on a Nokia N95-3. The page also loads in the Nokia browser on the N95-3 and with Opera Mini, but none of the links work in those two browsers thanks to a dependency on some non-portable JavaScript.
The sad part about this is that there is nothing about FoxRad that couldn't work with all mobile browsers. The site is really just your standard list of links pointing to various views of text and image content. It's implemented using JavaScript to hide and displays objects on the screen, a technique that could have been made to work with any browser that has even a little JavaScript support. Slightly more work using progressive enhancement techniques would have allowed the site to be usable even on the many mobile browsers that have no JavaScript support at all. FoxRad is a perfect example of what browser compatibility researcher and consultant Peter Paul Koch (PPK) calls "The iPhone Obsession", the belief that only Apple's phone, which accounted for but 15% of smartphone and 3.2 percent of all phones sold last year, is worth developing for.
I urge everyone involved in mobile development to read PPK's piece as well as venture capitalist Mark Suster's "App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)". Limiting your mobile presence to the iPhone is bad business because your message will reach only a fraction of the market. For most services building cross platform web apps exploiting the growing power of the mobile browsers is far more effective. Sources: Mobility.mobi, OpenAttitude.
Filed in: Wap Review Directory - News/US Local by State/Pennsylvania - Vermont
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Mobile Link: foxrad.mobi
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Tagged houston, iPhone, progressive enhancement, Weather
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Found on the Mobile Web #191
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2036 mobile sites.
Weatherzone (AU) m.wz.com.au Australian and international weather information site with satellite images, weather radar, forecast charts and a full range of Australian forecasts and current observations.It's a "Middle-web" site optimized for the iPhone, Pre and Android but doesn't require JavaScript and is usable on most devices.
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MobiLocation mobilocation.com Part of MobiPedia, MobiLocation is an annotated mobile world atlas created with a mashup of Wikipedia and Google Maps. It offers maps and background information on thousands of cities and towns around the world and is available in 17 languages. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio
AccuRadio accuradio.com/mobile/ A small directory of streaming Internet radio stations in streaming http MP3 (aka Shoutcast) format. Few if any phones support this format natively. The site has links to Palm OS and Windows Mobile players. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Royal Artist Club royalartistclub.com/mobile/ The Nokia sponsored Royal Artist Club, which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary is a free blog platform for bands. Sort of like MySpace but older and not nearly as big with only about 50 bands represented currently. Source Nokia Conversations
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Instablogs www.instablogs.mobi/?m A user driven news site. Stories are submitted by users with the most popular ones (based on user voting) appearing on the front page. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Travel-Transit/Destination Guides
Alcatraz.mobi alcatraz.mobi A nicely done guide to Alcatraz Island, the famous maximum security prison in on a rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Shut down in 1963, Alcatraz is today one of the top Bay Area tourist attractions. The site has Alcatraz history, photos, weather and tour information and phone numbers. Source Mobienthusiast
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HYPY Chinese-English m.roshisoft.com/hypy Mobile Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary. Supports entry of English words and phrases, Chinese characters or Pinyin (phonetic representation of Chinese using Roman characters). Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Spanish Translator spanish.mobi Mobile Spanish to English and English to Spanish translation site with a simple no-nonsense user interface. Source Mobienthusiast
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Appetite for China m.appetiteforchina.com A beautifully designed blog by a professional writer and cooking instructor, Diana Kuan covers the cuisines of China. It's full of recipes, restaurant reviews and reminisces of the author's experiences growing up in the kitchens of her family's restaurants. Mobile view by Mobify.
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SouthAfrica.info m.southafrica.info Published by the International Marketing Council of South Africa, a "public-private partnership established in 2002 to create a positive, unified brand image for South Africa", SouthAfrica.info's mobile site has headline news, local weather forecasts and currency exchange rates along with business, travel, world cup and events sections. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Found on the Mobile Web 53
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1430 mobile sites.
Minneapolis St Paul Mag mspmag.mobi Restaurant guide, restaurant reviews, shops guide, arts and entertainment calendar, nightlife and bars guide for Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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CN Traveler Tipping Guide m.cnt.acumob.com Conde Nast Traveler's Mobile Tipping Guide lists recommended tips for hotels, restaurants, bars, cab drivers and tour guides in various countries around the world. Source: Branding Unlimited
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Travel-Transit/Destination Guides
Grand Forks Visitors Bureau mobile.visitgrandforks.com Shopping, dining and events guide for greater Grand Forks, North Dakota from the Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Caltrain QuickPlanner apps.transitunlimited.org/caltrainembed.html Interactive schedule for Caltrain commuter rail service between San Francisco, San Jose and Gilroy, California.
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TheWerks thewerks.mobi German high performance and collector car market place. Browse listings for everything from a $600,000 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing coupes to a $7,000 Porsche 912. Covers Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche. Lot's of nice photos of the cars. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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QVC m.qvc.com Mobile site for the U.S. version of QVC, the 24 hour cable TV shopping channel. The mobile site has a continuously updated link to the item that's currently being pitched on TV. The site also has descriptions and pictures of items featured in the last 12 hours and items that are new to QVC today, You can also enter a QVC item number to view any available item. All items can be purchased online on the mobile site using your QVC account credentials.
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Costume Craze mobile.costumecraze.com Shop for adult and costumes for Halloween, parties and special events. Mobile site lists an extensive selection of costumes with prices and pictures. Ordering is by click to call number, which is buried on the Contact page, and you can track orders on the mobile site. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability:
The Guardian m.guardian.co.uk Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the UK's Guardian.
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Shanghai Daily mobile.shanghaidaily.com Business focused English language daily from China covering local, national world news, sports, business, editorials and "odd" news. The mobile edition is quite complete with over a hundred full length stories, many with photos, from all sections of the paper. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Feedzilla mobile.feedzilla.com News agregator which collects the top news stories from thousands of sources. You can view news in any of 26 categories from Art to Video Games or as a blended "Top News" stream. Listings consist of a headline and excerpt. You can click through to the original source which is generally NOT mobile friendly. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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News/US Local by State/Alabama - California
WAFF48 Huntsville AL www.waff.com/?clienttype=mobile News, Radar, Weather, Sports and TV program schedule for North Alabama from Hutsville's WAFF, TV channel 48. Source Oh! Mobile Directory.
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News/US Local by State/Georgia - Indiana
KITV4 Honolulu kitv.mlogic.mobi News, Weather, and Sports from Honolulu Hawaii's KITV, TV Channel 4. The attractive site by Crisp Wireless delivers content adapted to devices from old wml-only handsets to the iPhone. The adaptation generally works well although the same pagination seems to be used for all xhtml devices with even the iPhone, G1 and Opera Mini getting stories broken into the same tiny pages as a Motorola L7.
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News/US Local by State/Minnesota -New Jersey
Int'l Falls MN Daily Journal mobile.ifallsdailyjournal.com The International Falls (MN) Daily Journal's mobile site uses a "River of News" format. No categories or sections just a continuous stream of news going back two and a half years. Thankfully it's paginated 10 items to a page. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Chromesphere mobile.chromesphere.com Free mobile space and landscape wallpapers in 240x320, 320x480 (iPhone) and 480x640 sizes. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Cineman Mobile mobile.cineman.ch Reviews, cast lists, stills and downloadable 176x144 px trailers for current moves. Cineman also has movie news, chart of the top movies as voted by Cineman members and show-times for theaters in Switzerland. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Mobile Faker m.mobilefaker.com Help for the relationship challenged and other luzers. Mobile Faker offers fake calls, (which cost 99 cents) to get you out of difficult social situations or to give yourself the appearance of popularity. The site also has entertainment news, rejection lines and fake numbers to give out to people you really don't want calling you back. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory.
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BLiKT blikt.lt/site/language/en.html BLiKT lets you create your own mobile online photo album which you can share with friends and family. The site is available in Lithuanian and English
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GoalKeeper.mobi goalkeeper.mobi Soceer news and live scores. Searchable database of over 600 soceer news items, The items are really just headlines with no way to read the full story. Live scores page is unwieldy with over 100 results on a single long page. Source: Mobility.mobi
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Windfinder www.windfinder.mobi Aimed at surfers, sailors and windsurfers, Windfinder delivers instant wind, wave and weather forecasts for anywhere in the world
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SuperPagesPR www.superpagespr.com/mobile Yellow Pages directory for Puerto Rico in English and Spanish. Catergorized listings include address, map and phone numbers which unfortunately are not click to call Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability:
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Tagged Entertainment, mobile site review, News Sites, shopping, Sports, Weather
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