My Mobile Web Predictions For Last Year – The Scorecard

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

New Years Fireworks Rio by over_kind_man - Some rights reserved

Photo by over_kind_man – Some rights reserved Now that the year is over it’s time to look back at the predictions I made a year ago and compare them with what actually happened with mobile browsers, web apps and platforms in 2010. Prediction: There will be major improvements in smartphone mobile browser technology. Mozilla, Opera, Nokia, Skyfire, Google and RIM will compete to deliver a near desktop experience on high end devices. Expect to see better and faster JavaScript engines … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #237

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

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 2337 mobile sites. City and Campus Guides Lawrence.com m.lawrence.com A beautifully designed guide to events, dining, movies, arts and culture in and around Lawrence, Kansas. Published by the Lawrence Journal-World. Source: Modny73 Content: Usability: Local Search BC Hydro m.bchydro.com Realtime power outage information … Continue reading →

yiibu – Mobile Design Resource and Showcase

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Bryan and Stephanie Rieger are designers who take an pragmatic, inclusive approach to delivering content across a wide range of devices. Earlier this year they released two seminal (and beautifully designed) presentations on mobile. “Sowing Seeds” is about mobile in the developing world and why targeting only the iPhone and Android misses huge populations of people who depend on basic devices to close the digital divide. “Rethinking the Mobile Web” is a guide to creating content that is accessible on … Continue reading →

Moving On From Mobile Bloglines

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

I’ve been using Bloglines Mobile (image top, left) in Opera Mini for over five years to keep up with over one hundred mobile bloggers and forums. It was an awesome combination, I could read my 170+ feed subscriptions with it in Opera Mini on a 2G feature phone faster than I could with Google Reader on the desktop. Plus, Opera Mini let me save all my unread items as a single page for off-line reading. Bloglines has been dying a … Continue reading →

Download the New UC Browser 7.5 Beta For Java ME

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Yesterday China’s UC Mobile Ltd released a Beta of the a 7.5 version of the UC Browser for Java ME. It’s available in English, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Russian, but only from the UC Forum. Registration is required to download from the forum and I experienced problems installing the app via my phone’s browser using the Jad file links in the forum post. There was a minor formatting issue with the files. I posted direct links to corrected versions of the … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10.1 “Silent” Update For Symbian^3

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Opera Mobile10.1 (1169) on N8 With 6 Open Tabs

Opera quietly released a new build of the Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for Symbian today. It’s version 10.10 (1269) and is targeted specifically at Symbian^3 devices like the N8 and C7. It fixes a bug where Opera would crash when using the Nokia keyboard if predictive text was enabled and you pressed the on-screen right arrow key. There are several other bug fixes, all of which are related to text entry on Symbian^3. The changelog lists the following fixes from … Continue reading →

Covering the Mobile Web From 2004 to 2014

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