If you use an advanced full-web browser like S60WebKit or Opera Mobile you have probably noticed that text size varies widely from site to site. It’s not unusual to encounter sites where the text is quite hard to read when the browser is set to it’s default zoom level. A good example is the NBC Olympics site (top image). The text in the screenshot is probably readable if you are viewing this on a PC, but try using your browser’s … Continue reading
I got an email from Mark at Idea Earth suggesting I take a look at the mobile sites they have developed. Idea Earth’s got a boatload of sites, but one jumped out at me as especially interesting and unusual was FbiMostWanted.mobi. It’s just what the name suggests, a mobile version of the famous Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List. The list has been around for almost 60 years and every American has no doubt seen the hard … Continue reading
This week’s Carnival is at Matt Radford’s All About iPhone.net. This edition includes posts on MIDs, mobile UX, NFC, the iPhone, the smartphone landscape, mobile web sites, the Olympics, gender differences in handset choice and more. Reading the Carnival every week is a great way to keep up with the latest trends in mobile with a minimum investment of your time. Congratulataions to Ajit Jaokar, whose piece “The Asus Effect” won Post of the Week honors. Visit the Carnival Of … Continue reading
The Olympics Mobile web sites keep on coming. I’ve added four more to the Beijing Olympics category of the WapReview Mobile Directory and the YesWap Mobile Portal bringing the total to 20. Dameon Welch-Abernathy, aka PhoneBoy, discovered Mippin‘s Olympics page (m.mippin.com/mip/m/cat.jsp?&p=0&cat=Olympics) which aggregates content from 30 different full web sites. I’ve written about Mippin before, it’s a service that lets publishers instantly create mobile sites from an RSS feed. Mippin is more than just a publisher’s tool though, in fact … Continue reading
Well known author and blogger Ajit Jaokar is hosting Mobile Web Megatrends, a one day conference on the mobile web in San Franciso, Monday September 8th, 2008. This is two days before the start of the big CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show, also in San Francisco. Ajit’s put together a great lineup of speakers from Opera , ESPN Mobile, Oracle (atomdb), Admob , Moblast, Skyfire, Cellfire, MyNuMo , OMTP Bondi and Gemalto SCWS plus some of my favorite bloggers … Continue reading
The Beijing Olympics are now underway, the opening ceremonies have already happened although we won’t see them on TV in the US until “Prime Time” this evening. I featured 12 Olympic mobile sites last month in Get Ready for the Olympics on Your Phone, since then four more mobile sites have created dedicated Olympics pages so here’s a quick look at the new entrants. In the original article I mentioned the mobile version of Google News as a good way … Continue reading
Nokia’s S60 Widgets were launched at CTIA 2007 but until recently it was hard to find many actual Widgets to install. That’s not a problem anymore as Nokia has created a Widget Library on the mobile web with over 1000 Widgets to choose from. “Widget” is such confusingly generic name. The word is just so overloaded with different meanings. There are desktop widgets and browser widgets for PCs, J2ME based mobile widgets, GUI Widgets in various development tools and probably … Continue reading
Not to be outdone by Access, Motorola held their own developer event, MotoDev Workshop, at LinuxWorld today. It was much better attended than the Access get together with a SRO crowd of about 100 people. It probably helped that Motorola made the event free at the last minute (vs the advertised $95), included lunch and had signs up all over Moscone Center promoting the Workshop. There were a couple of significant announcements. The long promised, oft delayed SDK for native … Continue reading