Wap Review

JiWire Wi-Fi Finder (iphone.jiwire.com/) Is a worldwide free hotspot finder with listings for over 200,000 hotspots in 135 countries. You can restrict the search to free hotspots only or search for both free and pay locations. Officially this is an iPhone web app but it works beautifully on Opera Mini. It's usable in Nokia's Webkit browser although the bottom half of the last listing on each page is cut off.. The built-in Openwave browser on my Motorola i855 can load all of the site except for one image but searches fail with a "Malformed URL" error.

Mosio is similar to Yahoo Answers but for mobile. You can text any question from your phone or enter it on the site and have it answered by real people (other Mosio members).Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

I don't know how many truckers read Wap Review but I bet there are at least a few. So here's a dedicated trucking industry mobile site. It's a mobile web based truck scale locator from CAT Scale, a company that manufactures and operates automatic truck scales. The URL is catscale.mobi

CAT Scale claims to be the largest truck scale network in the world, with over 1,200 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. It's important for truckers to know the weight of their rigs as load limits vary from highway to highway and operating an overweight truck can result in a substantial fine. CAT Scale offers a guarantee that if a driver receives an overweight fine after weighing legal on a CAT brand scale, the company will either pay the fine or appear in court with the driver as an expert witness in order to get the fine dismissed

The Cat Scale mobile site is quite easy to use. You enter a postal code or a city and US state or Canadian province and get a listing of the three nearest CAT Scales with address and click-to-call phone number. There is also a Google mobile map highlighting the scale locations with the option to get driving directions to any of them. The search interface also offers some advanced options to change the search radius and number of results although the defaults should be fine in most cases.

If you are a customer, or prospective customer of U.S.CDMA operator, Sprint or just want to play with the Sprint exclusive Palm Pre, you might find this mobile site useful.  It lets you quickly locate company owned and independent stores selling Sprint phones and service. A free-form search box accepts a zip-code, street address or city and state. Results include store hours, available services, click to call phone number and a link to text based turn by turn driving directions, which I found accurate. An advanced search form lets you restrict results to locations offering handset repairs, bill payment or having Spanish speaking staff.  

The only thing I didn't really like about the Sprint site was the map feature. The driving directions include a link to a .gif file showing route on a map. Because it's a file link rather than a page containing an <img> tag many handsets will prompt the user to download the map rather than displaying it in the browser, The maps are 500x400 px and around 100 KB in size, unnecessarily large for most phones. The maps are not zoomable or panable and unless you are within a couple miles of the store, are not detailed enough to be useful. I'd prefer a link to Google or Bing's mobile driving directions which include zoomable, scalable maps sized to the handset's screen.

If you have a T-Mobile phone or WiFi hotspot account this mobile search form might be useful. You can search for hotspots, T-Mobile branded stores, and independent retailers selling T-Mobile phones (with a separate search for Pay As You Go phone kit dealers) and bill payment locations.

GasBuddyToGo (gasbuddytogo.com) - This simple but effective site should be getting a lot of traffic as gasoline prices head toward record highs. Enter a US zip code and get a list of the nearby gas stations with the lowest prices. Gas Buddy supports all phones with both xhtml and wml versions.

With gasoline prices on the rise again, here's another site that lets you search for the lowest gasoline prices by US zip code. mobGas's interface is pretty efficient, just a single field where you enter a zipcode. I like that the zipcode field uses -wap-input-format:"NNNNN" to switch most phones to numeric input. On the other hand, results are not sorted by price and in some cases were not current.

Go to URL page. Some carriers including Verizon and Nextel remove the "Enter URL" feature from the browsers on some of their phones presumably to discourage users from leaving the "Walled Garden". This page restores that function. Just bookmark yeswap.com/enter.php or make it your home page!

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