I spend quite a bit of time in email on my phones and I’ve come to the conclusion that there are only two things that really matter in the usability of a mobile email application; speed and click distance. Speed, as in the number of seconds it takes to delete or file the current message and load the next. Click distance meaning how many key presses it takes to read and manage my mail. I’ve been primarily using the gMail … Continue reading
I spent a few minutes playing around with the new LG Voyager (VX 1000) at the Verizon store on Market St in San Francisco. The Voyager is Verizon’s answer to the iPhone. I wasn’t too impressed with the phone as a whole, it’s just a tarted up BREW based feature phone, but the browser is something else entirely. It’s labeled as the Teleca Browser V 3.8 and is a full web browser in the style of Opera Mini and Mobile, … Continue reading
This week the Carnival is at Symbiano-TeK. Host Tarek Ghazali has gathered up the best recent posts on mobile topics for your reading pleasure. The latest Carnival features items on Google’s cell-id based mapping and navigation application, Verizon’s new found openness and much more. Congratulations to Ajit Jaokar whose piece, “P2P may be Google’s biggest weakness and an Operator’s biggest asset” won Post of the Week honors. Link: Carnival of the Mobilists 102 live from the Pyramid!
Blogs make great mobile websites. A typical blog has short timely posts that are mostly text. Blog posts downloads quickly even over the slowest mobile connection and can be an entertaining way to send the idle minutes spent waiting in line or riding public transit. If you have a blog you should really try to make it as usable as possible on mobile phones. You’ll be rewarded with more readers and, if you want, you can advertise on the mobile … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 990 mobile sites. Sports WNBA (wnba.mobi/) The Women’s National Basketball Association’s mobile site. The site offers scores, news, statistics, photos and schedules from the professional hoops league. Search/Local FindNearYou (wap.findnearyou.com) Local search for India. This is a new service combining local search, localized … Continue reading
I awoke this morning to headlines in Yahoo Finance proclaiming “Verizon Opens Up Network“. Seems like pretty exciting stuff. What an amazing turnaround for the carrier that kicked my wife’s Amp’d Mobile Motorola e816 off their network last July when Amp’d folded. The same company that reportedly started banning new activations of Verizon branded Windows or Palm smartphones on their prepaid service just a few days ago . The Verizon that just last month stopped activating Verizon branded prepaid phones … Continue reading
JuiceCaster is a “social broadcasting” service. It’s an embeddable player you can add to your Facebook, MySpace or Friendster page or to a blog. When you send photos or videos to JuiceCaster by MMS, email or by using a JuiceCaster application they appear in the player on your web page. Content you upload can be flagged as public, private or shared with selected friends. JuiceCaster is free to use except for the mobile application, which is a BREW executable currently … Continue reading