Skyfire has issued an update to the S60 version of their browser. It’s V. 085.0.8084 and fixes an issue where the phone would prompt you to select an access point three times on start up and again when ever you wake the browser up from a nap. The latest release only prompts once at start up and once when it comes out of sleep mode. Still not ideal, there needs to be an option to set a default access point, … Continue reading
Google has put up a web site “Mobile Countdown to the New Year“, which posts a new mobile tip every day through January 1st. The site is available in a full web version (google.com/mobile/tips) and also as a mobile website at google.com/mobile/m/tips/countdown. The tips demonstrate clever things that you can do with Google’s mobile services. There have been six tips posted so far and all have involved Google’s mobile search, which is a good place to start. Search on mobile … Continue reading
Whenever I hear about a new phone release I try to test my mobile sites with it, particularly if it carries a new browser like the T-Mobile G1, Blackberry Storm or the Polaris browser found on the Helio Drift and Kickflip. I have no budget for test handsets so I test with the demo phones in carrier owned mobile shops. When I find an issue in testing I capture the phone’s User-Agent string so I can modify my browser detection … Continue reading
Yesterday after the Symbian Partners Event, I was invited to attend a “Bloggers Dinner”. When I got an email saying dinner would be at the Carnelian Room I knew that my attire of Mobile Camp tee shirt and jeans wasn’t going to cut it. Quick change to khakis and a collared shirt and I was off. The Carnelian Room was a gas. Best known for its view, it’s at the top of the 555 California tower, the city’s second tallest … Continue reading
I’m at the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco today. I’m hoping to learn more about what the open source Symbian OS will look like. I’m particularly interested in whether it will be complete enough that OEMs and hackers can relatively easily slap it on existing hardware. The full open source code release is still 18 months a way so I suspect details will be scarce but if I hear anything I’ll pass it along. I’m live blogging this using … Continue reading
I just saw this on VentureBeat. MySpace has added video to their mobile site, m.myspace.com. Thanks to MySpace’s original association with bands and music, it has tens of thousands of videos, especially music videos. It makes sense to make them available on mobile. I took a look at the mobile video offering and it is live and it works but it’s very limiting and not particularly user friendly. To watch MySpace videos on your phone you have to jump through … Continue reading
Winksite founder David Harper just showed me a project that he’s been working on. It’s a new way to share all sorts of web content to mobile. The brand new service, separate from Winksite, is called Delivr. Delivr is a very slick mash up of a URL shortening service with email, SMS, a QR code generator and some of the most popular web services; YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, FaceBook, Digg, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Translate, Twitter, Jaiku, Plaxo, Reddit and Delicious. … Continue reading
Continuing with the holiday shopping theme I started yesterday, Snappr (snappr.mobi) is an online shopping search and price comparison site. It’s the mobile variant of Snappr.net on the web. Snappr is new, both the .net and the .mobi launched this year. The mobile site opens to a simple search box where you can enter a product name or the number that appears under the UPC bar code found on most products. Snappr returns a list of products with price, a … Continue reading