Category Archives: Site Reviews

ING DIRECT Mobile Banking

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ING DIRECT is an internet bank with very good interest rates on insured savings and checking accounts. ING recently launched a mobile banking site which lets customers view balances and transactions and transfer funds between accounts using their mobile phones. The site works fairly well but has some issues. The first problem is that when I tried the URL that ING publishes, ingdirect.com/m, my Motorola i850 reported “Could not connect to site”. I tried it in Firefox to capture the … Continue reading →

BareSite – Another Mobile Transcoder

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BareSite.com: (baresite.com) is another mobile transcoder. I like the name,  it may sound like  a porn site, but at least you aren’t likely to forget it. Mobile transcoding is a crowded field with some tough competition. I don’t use transcoders much any more since the advent of Opera Mini but new ones keep popping up and for good reason. There are millions of BREW phones from Verizon, Alltel and US Cellular that can’t run Opera Mini so there is a … Continue reading →

MyCorner – Mobile Video

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MyCorner: (m.mycorner.com) Is a nicely designed site with a variety of user submitted news, tech sports and travel videos in 176×144 .3gp format. I enjoyed the ones taken by someone wandering around the big 3GSM trade show in Barcelona earlier this year. Anyone can download, you must register to submit videos. Registration can be done on the phone or on MyCorner’s PC web site and requires giving your mobile phone number. As far as I know MyCorner is reputable but … Continue reading →

MizPee – Your Mobile Toilet Advisor

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MizPee (mizpee.com/mizpee/Mainmenu.do) is a new mobile site that aims to help you find a place to go when you gotta go. The premise is simple, enter an address and MizPee will find the nearest public restroom. Toilets are user rated from 1-5, represented not by stars but by toilet paper roll icons. Hours are listed along with whether there is handicapped access, a baby changing table or a charge for using the loo. Listings are currently limited to New York, … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #81

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The latest Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Symbiano-Tek. Each week bloggers writing about mobile topics may submit their posts to the Carnival. The host of the week picks the 10 or so best and highlights them in a special Carnival post. This week’s host, Tarek Ghazali, has done a fine job of tying together some great posts with the theme – Pharaohs’ Style. Link: Carnival of the Mobilists #81; Pharaohs’ Style at Symbiano-Tek

RHPS

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RHPS Mobile: (rockyhorror.com/mobile) That’s the Rocky Horror Picture Show, of course. The site lists regular showings of the film in the US and beyond. There’s also a list of the props that fans bring to RHPS screenings and a cue sheet listing when to deploy each prop. RHPS rockyhorror.com/mobile xhtml-mp Content Usability

MSN Mobile Redesign

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Microsoft has completely revised their mobile portal. The changes have been in public beta for the last four months and have gone through quite a bit of tweaking during that time. The final result is impressive. Most mobile portal’s start pages are a bunch of links and a search box. Microsoft is putting real content right on the home page. Users see News, Sports and Entertainment headlines with small 50px wide images plus a three day local weather forecast on … Continue reading →

101cookbooks

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The iPhone has spawned a bunch of new mobile web sites launching as “iPhone Applications”. You can find a big listing of these at iPhoneApplicationList.com. Many need the advanced JavaScript capabilities and 480px wide screen of the iPhone but some like 101cookbooks will work on almost any phone. 101cookbooks is the site of San Francisco photographer, cookbook author and collector of cookbooks, Heidi Swanson. Heidi has a lot more than 101 cookbooks and every few days she publishes a recipe … Continue reading →