Category Archives: Site Reviews

Zedge Mobile Reviewed

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I want to follow up on yesterday’s piece about IDT’s aquisition of Zedge.net, a mobile social software (MoSoSo) site that slipped under my radar to become a market leader. Initially, I was surprised at how little there is to Zedge’s mobile (wml) site wap.zedge.net. All you can do there is download the files that you have added to your account from the PC site. There is no messaging, chat or ability to view another user’s profile or any social features … Continue reading →

MSNBC’s Hidden Mobile Gems

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MSNBC, the cable TV news channel operated by Microsoft and NBC has a rather good mobile web site. There is no dedicated URL for the mobile site as far as I know, but if you go to MSNBC.com with almost any mobile browser, the site’s browser detection kicks in to serve mobile pages. It’s a typical multi section news portal much in the style of CNN’s and the BBC’s mobile sites. Unlike those two which use in house reporters extensively, … Continue reading →

Mobango – Mobile File Sharing

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Mobango is a very popular mobile file sharing site. After registering at the PC site mobango.com, you can upload ringtones, wallpapers, videos and java apps from your PC to Mobango and them download then to your phone from the Mobango mobile site wap.mobango.com (wml browser required). When you upload a file you can flag it as either public or private. Any registered user can download public files which currently number over 200,000. The file size limit is a relatively generous … Continue reading →

Mobile KTVU.COM

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San Francisco’s local Fox network TV affiliate KTVU Channel 2, home of the most popular TV news broadcast in the San Francisco market, has launched a mobile news site at wap.ktvu.com. Mobile KTVU.COM is notable in a couple of areas. The site uses browser detection to adapt output to the capabilities of different browsers. Image size varies from from 96 to 236 px wide to fit the screen width on most devices. The site delivers wml and .gif images to … Continue reading →

ThrillNetwork.com

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ThrillNetwork.com is a roller coaster and amusement park fan site. The mobile edition of ThrillNetwork (mobile.thrillnetwork.com) is aimed at PDAs and Smartphones and works best on devices with screens at least 220px wide and able to handle pages up to 100 KB in size including images. The site also works very in Opera Mini. If you want to visit ThrillNetwork with a typical phone’s built in browser you should probably use a transcoder like Skweezer or Google‘s. ThrillNetwork Mobile features … Continue reading →

Newsweek’s Two Mobile Sites

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Newsweek is Time magazine’s major competitor among US weekly news magazines. Before the Internet and CNN these two publications held great power in influencing mainstream politics and thought in this country. Nowadays both are trying to reinvent themselves on the web – including the mobile web. I covered Time‘s new mobile site recently so here’s a look at Newsweeks‘ mobile offering. Newsweek, like Time, has turned to Crisp Wireless to create their mobile site. Crisp seems to specialize in repackaging … Continue reading →

New Flickr Mobile

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Flickr recently rolled out an updated version of their mobile site at m.flickr.com. When I first reviewed Flickr Mobile I found it limited but useful. This update removes most of the limitations I mentioned. Photos are now searchable by tag or description and new links give you more options for viewing your contact’s photos. One of the best features of Flickr Mobile, the ability to upload photos directly from your browser, has been retained. Browser uploading only works from certain … Continue reading →

Mobile Minneapolis StarTribune

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A user on HowardForums’s tipped me about the Minneapolis StarTribune’s mobile site. The site’s really designed for PDA’s but usability scales down to typical phones fairly well. There are links to about 35 breaking news stories on the front page. A top level menu links to other sections including a section for each of the area’s pro sports teams. The section pages each link to about 10 stories so there is a lot of content on the mobile StarTribune. The … Continue reading →