Looking to buy or sell a used car or motorcycle? If you are in the UK, AutoTrader looks like it would be helpful. It started as one of those free shopper magazines that you find on racks at the supermarket but has expanded to include a website and now a mobile site at autotrader.mobi. The mobile version lets you search a database of over 400,000 vehicles for sale by make, model and postcode. The site is free to use for … Continue reading
In the past, I’ve been pretty critical of mobile web hotel booking sites. Horrible usability, errors caused by invalid markup or excessively large pages and the inability to easily complete a booking have pretty much stymied every attempt I’ve made to book a room using the mobile web. Finding and booking a room for the night using your phone should be a no brainer. Actually it’s pretty easy if you just call the 800 number of one of the big … Continue reading
This is the second in a series of posts comparing free add-on full-web mobile browsers. If you missed the first one, covering TeaShark vs. Opera Mini it’s here. Here’s a look at UCWEB, Version 6. This browser comes from Guangzhou Ucfly Company in Guangzhou, China. I couldn’t find out much about this company other than what’s on their web page. Ucfly has partnerships with China Mobile and Chinese search engine Baidu. According to the company, UCWEB has been downloaded 11 … Continue reading
Since 1994, print magazine Linux Journal has been covering the open source OS from all angles with news, editorials, reviews, and how to articles on using the Linux and developing software for it. The articles cover a wide range of skills levels from beginner to guru kernel hacker. The quality of writing is very high for a tech magazine, hardly surprising as well known blogger and co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, Doc Searls is senior editor and writes many of … Continue reading
Engadget has published a series of photos from a Chinese forum of what is almost surely the HTC Dream in T-Mobile livery. This is the Android phone which T-Mobile US is supposed to launch before year end. The pictures show the same design as other recent leaked shots of the device. Up to now none of the pictures I’ve seen of the Dream have showed it in enough context to really judge it’s size. This has lead to some reports … Continue reading
Tomi Ahonen has announced a new book, his sixth. Titled “Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media“, it can be pre-ordered from FutureText and will be available in stores and from Amazon.com shortly. Tomi is one of the true mobile visionaries. In his books and as a speaker at industry events he uses copious statistics , charts and graphs to convincingly advance his thesis that the mobile phone will become the most dominant form of media ever, bigger and even … Continue reading
I use Yahoo Mail a lot of my phone, all mail to the wapreview.com domain gets forwarded to my Yahoo account and I end up reading much of it on my phone with Opera Mini. Unfortunately reading Yahoo Mail on a phone is a bit of a pain. I can’t use the N95’s built in email client as Yahoo doesn’t support IMAP and using POP3 with multiple clients (desktop and various mobiles) is insane. Neither the full or mobile versions … Continue reading
The Daily Telegraph is the UK’s largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The paper was also one of the first to adopt digital distribution, launching its first web site in 1994. They’ve had a mobile site for while too but I never really paid much attention to it as it’s a £5/month subscription deal. The pay version still seems to be available but I guess not many people were willing to pay the equivalent of $10/month to read the news … Continue reading