Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Nokia’s QWERTY Trio – Lots of Bang for the Buck

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Last night Nokia announced three new moderately priced QWERTY phones that look very impressive. The thing that stands out to me is the amount of advanced functionality Nokia has crammed in at such low price points. There’s the $122 (list) C3 (top left), a  BlackBerry styled 2.5G S40 with WiFI, music player and WebKit based browser.  The $244 E5 (top right) is similar to the $469 E72 but with twice the RAM,  an even better keyboard and a bigger battery. … Continue reading →

Crazy News Day: Opera Mini Approved for the iPhone!!

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The last 18 or so hours have been crazy with announcements in the mobile world. Opera Mini was approved for the iPhone, Nokia announced three new QWERTY phones at impressively low price points and there’s a new Bolt browser release. I don’t think anyone expected that Apple would approve the Opera Mini iPhone app. But the app store rules are so vague and approval process so opaque that you can never predict what Apple will bless and what they won’t. … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #210

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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 2206 mobile sites. Sports SportsTap sportstap.mobi Touch optimized sports portal with live sports scores, news and stats for the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, College Football and Basketball, Motorsports, Soccer, Golf and Tennis. Adapts nicely to smaller screens and non-touch devices as long as … Continue reading →

Debunking the iPhone’s 64% US Mobile Browser Share

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Image: Engadget At the iPhone 4.0 SDK release announcement yesterday Steve Jobs made the claim that the iPhone has a 64% US Mobile Browser “User Share”. An accompanying slide showed shares for all mobile browsers as: iPhone: 64% Android: 19% BlackBerry: 9% Other: 8% I’m skeptical of this number as it’s considerably higher than other estimates I’ve seen that put the iPhone’s share of mobile web traffic considerably lower. The source for the slide is given as “Net Applications, Feb … Continue reading →

Problems With Yahoo Mobile? Try the Lite Version

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Yahoo Mail is the biggest webmail provider in the world and its portal is one of the top web destinations. Yahoo is also the market leader in mobile webmail.  Unfortuanately, I’ve been seeing some intermittent issues with Yahoo on mobile lately including: “Connection closed by remote server” messages An infinite login loop: After entering  my ID and password  and clicking the “Sign In” button, the login page reloads rather than taking me to my account.  There’s no error message, the … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #209

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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 2197 mobile sites. Sports/Motorsports Yahoo! Formula 1 m.yahoo.com/w/yformula1 In partnership with Eurosport, Yahoo last week launched this slick new Formula One site with schedules, results, news, rankings, driver and team profiles. The site’s stylish tabbed layout mirrors that of the “new” Yahoo mobile … Continue reading →

Here Come The Cheap Smartphones

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Smartphone market share has been steadily rising for the last few years and I think that the growth rates are about to turn exponential. I’m not alone in this belief,  Nielsen predicts that smartphones will outsell feature phones in the US by the end of next year.  The main impediment to smartphone growth is cost.  Even in developed countries many purchasers balk at the average $400 that a typical smartphone commands.  But that’s changing thanks to open source smartphone OSs … Continue reading →

How to Change the Bolt Browser’s User Agent

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A lot of people seem to want to change their mobile browser’s User Agent header. The subject comes up all the time on the Opera Mini MyOpera forum.  The complaint is always the same, some web site is redirecting Opera Mini users to a limited mobile version of the site when the user wants the full site.  This happens because every browser sends a User Agent header which identifies it. Web developers often use the User Agent to direct browsers … Continue reading →