Yesterday, I wrote an item about STi Mobile, a new prepaid MVNO with low rates especially for web access. Total cost to keep the phone active and have unlimited WAP access is $5.22 /month including all taxes and fees. I listed as one of the few negatives of STi that very few retail outlets carry STi phones – you basically have to buy the phone and all refills online. That’s no longer true. Imagine my surprise when I saw in … Continue reading
A while ago I wrote about Boost Mobile a US pre-paid carrier offering unlimited WAP and Java ME app data access for a total cost of $6.67 a month including tax. Today I saw another unlimited WAP deal that’s even better. It was featured on Ian’s blog Go4Prepaid with an update on the pricing here. The carrier is an MVNO called STi Mobile using Sprint PCS’s 1900 mHz CDMA 1xRTT network. The unlimited WAP deal is 17 cents a day … Continue reading
Photo: fridaynite This week’s Carnival is hosted at The Pondering Primate If you haven’t you visited the Carnival yet, take a look. It’s a roving exhibition of the best posts on mobility by a diverse and insightful group of bloggers. Previous editions of the carnival can be found at: Carnival 1 at: MobHappy Carnival 2 at: The Mobile Technology Weblog Carnival 3 at: m-trends Carnival 4 at: Open Gardens Carnival 5 at: Mobile Marketing & SPAM
I want to be able to be able to read RSS feeds on my phone. Feeds are perfect mobile content – mostly text, all meat, none of the stuff like sidebars, headers, frames, navigation bars and popups that make most websites unusable on a phone. There are a number of excellent web based RSS aggregators but I’ve been having a hard time finding a WAP based one that I want to use regularly. The usability just isn’t there for one … Continue reading
YesWap Mobile Disclaimer – this is not a review. YesWap.com is a mobile site I created to showcase what I consider to be the best of the mobile web. It wouldn’t be honest to review my own site but I really want to tell you about it. YesWap appears to be a simple wap portal, nothing but links in a hierarchical menu. The menu structure is exactly the same as that of WapReview.com. So if your browsing WapReview reading the … Continue reading
Carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany from German Wikipedia, by Eribula Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. If you’re reading this blog you will certainly enjoy Carnival of the Mobilists. The Carnival is a weekly gathering of blog entries focusing on the mobile world. Check it out! This weeks fifth edition of the carnival is hosted by the guy who really REALLY hates SPAM, Troy Norcross over at … Continue reading
EuroNews I like to read the news from a variety of sources from around the world. There’s a lot going on that you’ll never hear about if you rely on the limited, superficial international news coverage provided by the US news media. I’m sure the media in every country has a local bias as well. To really have an international perspective on current events, you need to follow a variety of sources worldwide. Fortunately the Internet, including the mobile Internet, … Continue reading
Opera Mini, the Java ME web browser which provides the best possible mobile browsing experience on most phones is now available as a free download to users anywhere in the world. The browser, which uses a proxy to compress and reformat desktop websites for optimal usability on the small screens of mobile phones, has been undergoing a phased rollout. Initially Opera Mini was only available in Norway and later in all of Scandinavia. If your phone and carrier supports over … Continue reading