Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Why You Should Take Mobile Web Traffic Statistics With A Grain of Salt

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StatCounter Chart

We’ve all seen charts like the one above from StatCounter, often accompanied by headlines saying things like “the iPhone is responsible for 64% of all mobile traffic”,  “4.5% of all web traffic comes from mobile browsers”, or “smartphones are responsible for over half of all mobile page views”. These reports make interesting reading but I’m not sure how accurate most of them are. The data usually comes from analytics services like Quantcast, StatCounter or Net Applications. These services do a … Continue reading →

Found On the Mobile Web #239

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Toronto TC

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2321 mobile sites. Transit Toronto TC m.ttc.ca The Toronto Transit Commission’s official site has bus, subway and streetcar schedules, a transit trip planner, fare and pass information and PDF! maps. Content: Usability: Toronto Next Streetcar nextstreetcar.ca Built on open transit data from the … Continue reading →

Opera Mini Now Available On Verizon Feature Phones

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OM5 - Engadget

The Opera Mini web browser is the most popular in the world with over 85 million users.  it’s easy to see why. Opera’s proxy architecture compresses web pages by up to 90% before sending them to the phone.  That cuts the cost of browsing,  makes page loads faster and allows even basic phones to load the largest desktop web pages. Up to now non-smartphone users on Verizon, the largest US operator, have been denied the advantages of Opera Mini. That’s … Continue reading →

Don’t Let Thematic Inconsistency Bite Your Mobile Users

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Mobile Fail

I do most of my casual web surfing on my phone. The PC is primarily for work; writing code and prose,  editing images, etc. The phone is where I catch up with the news and skip from link to link exploring new topics, sites and authors. Usually my mobile surfing starts with a link in Twitter or Google reader. Most of the time it works. But about once a week I click on a link to a story and it … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists at Tego Interactive

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The latest Carnival of the Mobilists was posted today at Tego Interactive.  The Carnival is a monthly showcase of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics.  It’s a great place to discover new voices and keep up with all the facets of the mobile scene This month’s edition has some great reads, including posts on the insular nature of the US mobile market, mobile strategy for CEOs, a big list of MWC 2011 parties,  mobile research, mobile barcodes, the … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #238

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Secondhand Memories

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2311 mobile sites. Literature Secondhand Memories kl.am/2hmm The first North American Japanese-style ongoing cellphone novel, Secondhand Memories is a story of high school love. Written on a mobile phone by “takatsu” it has short (50-100 word) chapters for “mobile snack” reading on your … Continue reading →

Why Nokia’s MeeGo Phone Won’t Use An Intel CPU

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Characters from the MeeGo Project – meego.com I don’t normally get into rumors but there’s one floating around on the Internet that’s got me really wound up. The claim is that Nokia will launch its first MeeGo handset at the Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona with an Intel Atom processor. The story grew out of a one line mention in a brief item on the Finnish tech site Prosessori. (In Finnish, Google translation). I don’t buy it. I … Continue reading →

How To Fix Word Wrap In Opera Mobile on Symbian

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paidContent with word wrap bug

I’ve been using my N8 a lot lately and because the Symbian^3 browser is so bad (slow, too small default fonts and no text-reflow on zoom) I’ve been using Opera Mobile 10.1 quite a bit as well. It’s a much better browser overall; it’s noticeably at faster loading complex pages, has tabs, lets you copy page text,  has some HTML5 support including geolocation and text is supposed to reflows to fit the screen width. But I keep running into pages … Continue reading →