Wap Review

Popular deals site, Dealnews.com's "Touch Web" obtimized site helps you find bargains on gadgets, computers, electronics and more. With a page size of only 24 KB the site would work on almost all phones except for the fact that the product links require JavaScript which is not supported by many feature phones.

Mobile friendly deal tracker lists today's best online deals. There is a search box to help you find what you are looking for.  Deals are categorized as "Tech" or "Non Tech" and there are sections dedicated to Dell, HP and Lenovo products and deals that do require a mail in rebate.

Mobile deals site with brief listings of hot deals. Lists hundreds of deals but could be better organized, there is no search or categories just an un-ordered list of current deals 10 to a page.

HotUKDeals claims to be  the UK's largest site for member submitted deals, voucher codes and bargains. Users share deals which other members can discuss and rate. Deals have a temperature rating which is driven by users voting each deal as "hot" or "cold", with the hottest deals appearing on the site's front page.

The mobile edition of HotUKDeals is optimized for 320px or wider screens and has an average page weight of 130 KB.  Source: Taptu Touch Web report (PDF)

GottaDeal.mobi is the new mobile edition of GottaDeal.com, a five year old online deal and coupon site. It's similar in concept to CheapenGadget but covers deals on pretty much anything rather than focusing on electronics and gadgets. The mobile version has three tabs:

• Deals, which has headline links to the most recent deals posted on the full site, 20 to a page. The links lead to a mobile formatted detail page describing the deal. Although there are the same number of deals per page as CheapenGadget, the listings are just links and the total page weight is a mobile friendly 9 KB. Like, Cheapengadget,  links to source of each deal tend to point to non mobile pages.

• Coupons, a huge single page list of over 100 coupons offering discounts on online merchandise.

• Forum which links to GottaDeal's very active (over a million posts) vBulletin user forum where members discuss the merits of deals, post tips on using products and suggest alternative sources for bargains.

GottaDeal.com is a useful site, but the mobile edition is less so. It could be much better with a few simple changes:

• The Coupons page is huge,  118 KB.  You will need a full-web or smartphone browser to even open it.  It needs to be paginated like the Deals page.

• Gottadeal.com on the full web has topic areas like Shoes, Jewelry and Cell phones plus a search box to help you find what you are looking for.  The .mobi has none of these, it's just a list of deals and coupons sorted by date added. It's fun to browse for a few minutes but good luck finding anything specific. Navigational aids like search and categories are even more important on the mobile web because scrolling and browsing much slower on a phone than a PC.

• The forum works pretty well in mobile format although some pages are a little on the large side. A bigger issue is that once you drill down into the discussions there is no way to get back to the deals and coupons pages except by pressing "Back" multiple times.  The forum pages need links to the other parts of the site for easy navigation.

Source: Mobility.mobi

User driven deals sites. Share hot shopping deals with the Slickdeals community. Good search function. But large page size (50KB) means this site requires a lot on scrolling and won't load on some feature phones.

Mobile deal site with a handy store locator.  Dealdar appears to find most of its deals by scraping Twitter. Although dealdar claims the site will work on all mobiles, its large pages (50-130 KB) will not load on many feature phones. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Constantly updated collection of the best deals on tech toys. Covers both online and brick and motor stores.

Listings of current hot deals on electronics gear.