Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

More Tour de France Coverage From Bicycling.com Mobile

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Thanks to a tip from a Wap Review reader I discovered that Bicycling Magazine has a slick mobile site with live Tour de France coverage. It also features general cycling and cycle racing news and regular reports from the Bicycling Magazine columnists. In addition to live Tour coverage, which only seems to appear on the site while a stage is in progress, there’s a dedicated Tour section with features on individual riders, a look at some of the Tour bikes … Continue reading →

Find Your Palm Pre With Sprint’s Mobile Store Locator

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If you are a customer, or prospective customer of U.S. CDMA operator, Sprint or just want to play with the Sprint exclusive Palm Pre, you might find this mobile site useful. It lets you quickly locate company owned and independent stores selling Sprint phones and service. A free-form search box accepts a zip-code, street address or city and state. Results include store hours, available services, click to call phone number and a link to text based turn by turn driving … Continue reading →

Google Voice App Released For Android and BlackBerry

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This morning Google took another step toward making mobile operators irrelevant by releasing a  Google Voice application for Android and Blackberry devices.  I’ve been using Google Voice since it launched. If you are unfamiliar with the service, Wikipedia has an excellent overview. In summary,  Google Voice gives you a new (currently U.S. only) local number.  Calls and texts to your Google Voice number are routed by Google Voice to one or more mobile, Gizmo5  VOIP or land-line numbers that you … Continue reading →

No Free Prepaid T-Zones For Android

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For many years T-Mobile in the U.S has offered a little freebie to its Pay As You Go customers – T-Zones,  a walled garden of mobile web sites. It includes basic account management features  like checking you balance, adding funds and switching between the two available prepaid plans.  That’s hardly unusual, lots of operators have free mobile web based account management sites for users without data plans,  but the T-Zones homepage also offers unlimited access to the ABC News mobile … Continue reading →

No More Annoying Balance Messages With AT&T Prepaid Data

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One of my biggest complaints back when I used AT&T’s  GoPhone prepaid service was the annoying  service messages (image) that would constantly pop up and interfere with whatever I was doing.  I was paying $20/month for unlimited data. But whenever I did anything with the browser or an app that consumed data like Google Maps or Nokia Email, an alert would pop up saying “The last transaction cost 0.00 USD…” I’d have to press the right soft key to dismiss … Continue reading →

Globrix – U.K. Mobile Property Search With Lots of Listings

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Globrix is a mobile Web service that claims “…to allow users to search nearly every property for sale or to rent in the UK.” I don’t know about that but it does have a lot of listings, 20,000 in London alone. The site’s advanced search lets you filter by minimum and maximum price, number of bedrooms, “freshness” of the listing, type of unit (house, flat or apartment) and radius from a town or neighborhood center. Listings include the price, general … Continue reading →

Mobile Site Offers California Education News and School Search

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I just found a link to the California Department of Education’s mobile side over at the Oh! Mobile Directory. I had no idea the CDE had a mobile site, most state agencies barely have a Web site let alone a mobile one. The Education Dept site offers a searchable directory of public and private schools, school district and CDE offices. Directory listings include address, phone numbers (not click to call, unfortunately) and a link to a mobile Google Map. I … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists Hosted on a Mobile Phone

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is the first to be hosted on a mobile phone! You read that right, the hosting site, AntoineRJWright.com runs in a  Nokia Web Server on a Symbian handset.  It’s not the fastest site in the world but seems to be keeping up the the increased traffic load of the Carnival without missing a beat. As always, the Carnival features some great posts on all aspects of the mobile experience  from user interface design to … Continue reading →