This week the Carnival is at Mobile Marketing and Spam. As always it includes some of the best recent writing on mobile topics. Host Tony Norcross, has done a nice introduction to each post. Great reading. Visit the Carnival. The Carnival of the Mobilists invites YOU to participate, just email a link to your best mobile related post to mobilists at gmail dot com by midnight this Friday, US Pacific Time (GMT – 7) . To learn more about the … Continue reading
I spent the last week vacationing in Barcelona – great food, people, architecture and art. I had a good time and will post more about it soon. In the meantime the mobile web continues its furious growth. Here are the latest sites I’ve added to Yeswap.com and the WapReview.com directory. Reference LEO (pda.leo.org/?lang=en) An online German-English/English-German dictionary. Very comprehensive results pages which list related phrases and have links to .wav files for punctuation can be over 40 KB – too … Continue reading
America Online, while not the web powerhouse it once was, is still a high traffic site. AOL also has a substantial mobile presence at wap.aol.com. AOL Mobile includes all the features of other big portals like Yahoo, Google, and MSN – search, news, weather, sports and business – plus links to other AOL properties like Mapquest and MovieFone. I’ve reviewed pieces of AOL Mobile before like MapQuest, but I’ve never written about the overall experience. It’s a big site so … Continue reading
photo by madridmobs, Some rights reserved. Welcome to the 67th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists – a weekly showcase of the best writing on topics related to mobile phones. The Mobile Future – We have some great items this week. To start off, many mobilists are pondering what’s next in this industry that is so rapidly evolving. Krisse at AllAboutSymbian asks, Do smartphones need to be anything more than a browser and a phone? A great look at … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is a regular feature of Wap Review listing new and updated mobile sites. All sites listed are included in the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Entertainment/eBooks Manybooks (mnybks.net) This mobile version of Manybooks.net lets you download any of the 16,000+ free eBooks on the Manybooks.net site as either a self executing Java .jar file or in MobiPocket Reader format. Both wml and html phones are supported and there’s a list of recommended books … Continue reading
It looks like Google has come up with an answer to Yahoo’s oneSearch (review). When you visit mobile Google search (google.com/m), there’s a new link at the top of the page heralding “New Try our new mobile search” Follow that link and you’ll see a page that works a whole lot like oneSearch. Gone are the options to search Web, Images, Local Listings and Mobile Web. In their place is a single search box. Searches now return a mixture of … Continue reading
The latest Mobilist’s Carnival has been posted at All About Symbian. It’s an outstanding collection of the best recent blog posts on mobile phones, software, networks and the business and marketing side of the industry, ably introduced by host Rafe Blandford. Visit the Carnival here. Next Monday, I’ll be hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists right here at Wap Review. If you’d like to participate, email a link to your best mobile related post to mobilists at gmail dot com … Continue reading