I’ve been looking at the various mobile web based email providers. Previous posts covered Gmail Mobile and Microsoft’s new Live Mail Mobile. Today it’s Yahoo’s turn. Yahoo has had mobile email since 2000. The current version has been around for at least a couple of years but it’s a good design and is aging well. There are both WAP2 and WAP1 versions of Yahoo Mail. The interfaces of the two versions are almost identical. The screenshots show the WAP2 version. … Continue reading
This week’s Carnival is hosted by Stuart Mudie at Blethers.com. As usual there are links to some great posts including some new voices. If you have an interest in any aspect of mobile telephony you should check out the Carnival – where new ideas surface weekly. Next week’s Carnival will appear Friday at Mobile Enterprise Weblog. To learn more about the Carnival including how to contribute to or host a Carnival, visit MobHappy, where it all started.
As I mentioned in the Live Search review a week ago, there are two new items on the MSN Mobile homepage Windows Live Mail Beta and Windows Live Search Beta. I’ve covered Live Search and found it very promising. Now as part of my ongoing project to review and compare the various mobile web based email services (the Gmail Mobile review is here), this is my take on Live Mail. I was originally planning on covering Hotmail Mobile (which is … Continue reading
Weingarten, Germany: ”Plätzler” carnival masks by Andreas Praefcke (GFDL cc-by-sa-2.5) Don’t miss the latest Carnival of the Mobilists at the Golden Swamp. As usual, the Carnival presents the best recent writing on the mobile world. While you are there, take a look around the Golden Swamp, a most interesting site devoted to the educational nature of the Web, including the Mobile Web. If you’d like to contribute to or host a Carnival, click on the red Carnival of … Continue reading
One of the more frustrating things about Mobile browsing is number of sites that don’t work. This has historically been a problem with WAP. Mobile browsers aren’t like desktop browsers which generally can display even very badly written pages with all sorts of coding errors. Most mobile browsers need to be feed perfect valid and well-formed xhtml or wml. A single little bug like forgetting to close a tag or improper nesting of elements, will cause a typical mobile browser … Continue reading
I just visited the MSN Mobile homepage and saw two new items in the menu, Windows Live Mail Beta and Windows Live Search Beta. I did a web search and it turns out that they aren’t really that new having been out for over a month, but they seem to have been more or less ignored so far. The Microsoft Live Mobile team has a blog (NOT Firefox friendly) called Mobile access everywhere! which seems to be the best source … Continue reading
Another sign of the coming explosion in mobile data and browsing. Google, one of the web’s Big Three has acquired Waterloo, Ontario based Reqwireless. Reqwireless was best know for it’s WebViewer a Java ME browser that works like Opera Mini using a Web Service to transform desktop web content for handheld display. WebViewer worked quite well, loaded in only 51KB and was compatible with many more phones than Opera Mini currently is. WebViewer sold for $20 which included unlimited upgrades … Continue reading
When I reviewed (update) the mobile edition of the Feedalot RSS aggregator a while ago I noted that images in feeds were removed and replaced with the text “[image removed]”. Links in feeds got the same treatment, being replaced with “[link removed]”. Given the constraints of most phone browsers, I think it’s reasonable for Feedalot to remove images and external links, although I could do without the …removed messages which break up the flow of the item text. But what … Continue reading