Update: It looks like Vodafone has blocked access to this site for non-customers. Just in time for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, I’ve discovered a great Formula One auto racing site, PLANET-F1. It’s an ‘exclusive’ on the Vodafone network, but fortunately it’s a public url so anyone can use it. Content is provided by a major F1 web site, PLANET-F1.com and for the WAP2 edition consists of the full text of the ten most recent stories from the News section of … Continue reading
The BBC generally does an outstanding job with their mobile web sites and the BBC’s F1 racing site WAP pages are no exception. With several original stories every day and live lap by lap coverage of both qualifying and races, the BBC site makes an excellent companion to Planet-F1 (see previous entry). The BBC doesn’t have a WAP2 (xhtml) edition yet, but they do have both WAP1 and PDA versions. The PDA version works well on just about any WAP2 … Continue reading
If you want the least expensive truly unlimited mobile browsing in the US you should look at Boost Mobile. Boost is Nextel’s pre-paid product. Boost is, in my opinion, THE best deal in the country for mobile browsing. I’ve been a Boost Mobile user for two and a half years, and am quite happy with the service. Unlimited WAP is $6 a month and that’s not on top of a monthly charge, this is a prepaid, no contract carrier. You … Continue reading
I saw on MobileRead Networks (a great site BTW where I often find the earliest reports of new mobile content) that Yahoo has launched a beta Mobile Shopping site. You can read what Yahoo has to say about it here. I tried the url Yahoo gave, http://shopping.yahoo.com and got 404 (Not Found) on my phones. I then tried on the Openwave, Netfront and Sony-Ericsson WAP emulators, which all support WAP2 which is required according to Yahoo. Only the Netfront emulator … Continue reading
I like the idea of being able to find and book hotels with the browser on my phone. It should be much easier than making endless rounds of phone calls to hotels that turn out to have no rooms available and without the language barrier in places where you don’t speak the language well. The major hotel chains are starting to get mobile too – so today I’m looking at a couple of new hotel WAP sites. A start is … Continue reading
The Federal Aviation Agency’s official mobile site is pretty barebones but does provide information on airport closures and delays for all airports and carriers in one place. There is also a directory of FAA and airline phone numbers and airline WAP sites. Content: Usability: wml
International news hounds, expatriates and anyone else interested in keeping up with the news from India might enjoy Indiatimes.com’s WAP site. Features Indian and World News, Business, Sports and Entertainment sections. Stories are written in a terse style and lack depth. This wml site makes extensive use of color images and is a welcome change to the typical text only wml news sites. There is also a lot of downloadable (but not for free) content (ringtones, games and wallpapers) on … Continue reading
I’ve created a new US Local sub-topic under News in the directory. This is where I’m puting the mobile editions of print newspapers amd TV channels which are USA based (non-US sites can be found in the International sub-topic). Currently, there are entries for the Athens (GA) Banner-Herald, Albuquerque Journal, Anchorage Daily News, Arizona Republic, Dallas News, Chicago’s E*Prairie, Dallas, Los Angeles Times, KATU Portland (OR) and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Most of these are PDA sites but several of them … Continue reading