Read an eBook on my mobile phone? I’ll admit I was skeptical at first. Although I’ve been reading books on a Palm OS PDA for years it has a relatively large 3 inch screen. I thought downgrading to the mobile’s 1.9″ screen would make reading impossibly painful. I quickly discovered that I was wrong. I found that I could read just as fast and with as much enjoyment on the smaller screen as with the PDA or even a printed … Continue reading
Matthew Miller at The Mobile Gadgeteer is hosting the Carnival this week. As frequently happens, this Carnival has introduced me to another great new mobile themed blog. I’ll be reading The Mobile Gadgeteer regularly from now on. It’s a great site for keeping up with the latest handset releases with hardware reviews, gossip and great product imagery The Carnival continues with it’s usual high standards in presenting the best recent writing on mobile topics. Improving the mobile user experience is … 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 and directory and portal now list 922 mobile sites. Entertainment/TV MTV: (wap.mtv.com) Music TV has a mobile site. Content consists of entertainment news, photos and entertainer interviews – and a Brittney Spears video. But the video is served in an embedded Flash player. It’s not Flash Lite, this is … Continue reading
This is the first in a series of tips on enhancing the usability of mobile websites. I’m beginning with user registration and login. But first a quiz, can you spot three mobile usability problems with the Facebook login screen in the image? The answers are at the bottom of this post. Most web services require new users to register. This practice has been carried over to the mobile web. Unfortunately registering typically requires quite a bit of typing – something … Continue reading
Opera Mini is the best mobile browser – period. I’ve been using it daily for a year and a half. Even comparing Mini with smartphone browsers like Netfront, Webkit or Opera Mobile, I prefer Mini. It loads pages faster on a slow connection, renders images quickly and beautifully and has an extremely well thought out user interface, Opera released a second beta of the next generation of Opera Mini last week. It launched two new features; custom search and landscape … Continue reading
Welcome to the eighty-ninth edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, a weekly showcase of the best recent mobile phone related posts from around the blogosphere. Here in the US it’s Labor Day, a national holiday celebrating workers and the labor movement. It seems fitting that we are taking the day to celebrate the labor of love that mobile bloggers put into their posts every day. New Products and Technologies: The past week has seen a slew of new product … Continue reading
First impressions of Opera’s latest Mini Beta are mostly positive for me. The new release contains two major new features, landscape mode and multiple, customizable search. There are some nice usability enhancements plus hundreds of bug fixes including a promised permanent fix to Beta 1’s biggest bugs, disappearing cookies and the broken web forms that plagued Beta One on some sites. Landscape mode is the marquee feature for Beta Two. It’s pretty neat, pressing * then # instantly rotates the … Continue reading
Update: Beta 2 has been released. Get it at mini.opera.com. Opera has announced that a new version of their awesome Opera Mini 4.0 will be released today. Keep an eye on mini.opera.com for the announcement and download. I’ll have a full report and review of the new release tomorrow.