Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Skyfire Browser Beta 0.85 for S60 – Full Review

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Several readers have confirmed that the latest SkyFire Browser Beta can be downloaded and used anywhere in the  world.  Just point your mobile or PC Browser at get.skyfire.com and download.  No registration is required.  Skyfire runs on most Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and Symbian S60 3rd edition phones. I’ve been using the new Beta, v 0.85.0.7935, on my N95-3 for a couple of days now – here are my impressions. Keep in mind that Skyfire is a Beta. There … Continue reading →

Skyfire’s New Beta – UK and Probably World Availability

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Good news from Skyfire. Beta 0.85 of the Skyfire Browser has been released! Best of all, it’s now a direct mobile download and registration is no longer required.  Until today Skyfire was only available to users in the US and Canada.  With direct download and no registration I’m thinking anyone in the world should be able to use it now. The Skyfire website mentions that UK users will be connected to a new UK server but doesn’t say anything about … Continue reading →

Soccer Laduma – A Rich Mobile Experience

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Soccer Laduma (soccerladuma.mobi) is yet another new African based mobile website.  It’s the mobile web edition of a weekly newspaper that’s the country’s largest soccer publication.  South Africa has  twice as many people using the mobile web as the fixed web so it’s no surprise that Soccer Laduma’s four month old mobile site gets more traffic than its fixed web counterpart. The site is very rich in features yet is easy to navigate.  The front page is simple and fast … Continue reading →

New Sites By Wap Review Readers

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A couple of regular Wap Review readers contacted me this week to announce new mobile sites they have created. I don’t automatically post about every personal site that I hear about but these are quality sites offering unique content so I’m more than willing to add them to the directory and portal and give them a little plug. First up is Ryan Kairer whose PhoneFavs and Palm InfoCenter I’ve covered previously. The prolific Ryan has just launched three new mobile … Continue reading →

Downtime

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WapReview.com and WapReview.mobi were both down for about seven hours today starting at around 1 PM Pacific Time.  My hosting provider 1and1,  can tell be nothing other than that a hardware failure occurred.   Everything’s back up now and it looks like the site survived with no lost of data.  I hate it when this happens, especially not being able to do anything to fix it. Back to regular posting tomorrow.

Carnival At Mippin

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Cartoon: Hugh MacLeod This week the Carnival of the Mobilists moves to the Mippin Blog where host Scott Beaumont has showcased ten recent posts on mobile issues from around the web. There’s a  mobile formated version of the Carnival too. It was created using Mippin a great service that creates an instant mobile site from any RSS or Atom feed. This week there are  three posts on Femocells, a couple on mobile usability plus items on app stores, the limitations … Continue reading →

T-Mobile USA Data Price Increases – Bandwidth Issue or Greed?

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Are US GSM/HSDPA carriers running out of bandwidth?  It sure looks like it.  First AT&T killed the “unlimited” data package for GoPhone pay as you go users, then they took away the option to sign up for unlimited data for users on GoPhone hybrid prepaid plans.  Now T-Mobile has raised data prices across the board for postpaid and hybrid users. Data has never been offered on T-Mobile pre-paid AT&T’s actions will decrease revenue so I can’t see any reason they … Continue reading →

Ten African Mobile News Sites

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Last month I wrote a post, Explosion in African Mobile Browsing about the rapid adoption of the mobile web in many African countries.  Opera Mini Traffic from the continent is up 180% since the beginning of the year, Admob reported huge gains from several African nations and I’ve seen 88% growth in African traffic to wapreview.mobi in the last three months I took that as a cue to try and find some African mobile news sites to add to the … Continue reading →