Category Archives: Site Reviews

Windows Live Mobile Updated

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Hot on the heels of Yahoo’s recent mobile home page redesign comes a major upgrade to Microsoft’s mobile deck. There is a new mobile.live.com URL (the old mobile.msn.com address also points to the new content). If you want to preview the site in your PC browser use mobile.live.com/wml/ as the above URL’s will take you to a page about Live Mobile. The new front page has a brighter, less cluttered look with updated icons. This is not just a cosmetic … Continue reading →

Yahoo Mobile Updates

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Yahoo has updated their mobile homepage ( wap.oa.yahoo.com ). Compare the new (top) and the old (bottom). I do think the new layout is more attractive. But where have the accesskeys gone!!! What’s an accesskey? It’s a shortcut key that can be added to various web page elements, like links. When you press the shortcut key, the link is followed even if it’s scrolled off the screen. On most phones, which don’t have a tocuchsceen or mouse, accesskeys greatly speed … Continue reading →

61st Vuelta a España

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Updated 8/26/2006: Velonews IS offering live reports from the Vuelta on both the full web at www.velonews.com/live and the mobile web at www.velonews.com/live_mobile. The BBC is not doing live coverage. The cycling Tour of Spain starts tomorrow under the ominous cloud of the back to back doping revelations of Operación Puerto followed by l’affaire Landis. I don’t know who’s guilty and who isn’t but I do know that professional cycling’s reputation is in the dumps. Maybe I’m dreaming but I … Continue reading →

Off Portal Mobile Streaming Video

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This post is no longer updated: For a current list of mobile video sites please visit the WapReview Directory’s Mobile Video Page. Sean Berner tipped me about his mobile streaming video site ZooVision. It’s pretty neat and to me represents the beginning of a trend – off portal streaming video. But first a disclaimer, I don’t have a phone that is capable of handing streaming media – so this review is based on browsing ZooVision and similar sites on a … Continue reading →

Yelp Mobile

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Yelp.com is a site featuring user generated reviews of businesses, services and attractions mainly in major US cities. Restaurants seem to be the main focus but users are free to review anything. There are plenty of reviews of clubs, hair salons, auto repair places and even cell phone stores. I’d never heard of Yelp until I read Oliver Starr’s writeup of it’s new mobile site. Apparently I don’t get out enough. It seems that Yelp is a genuine hit especially … Continue reading →

Orbitz Mobile

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Justin over at MOpocket mentioned that online travel giant Orbiz has launched a mobile site and added ” I hope WAP Review guy does a review of it”. I’m happy to oblige, so here goes. According to Alexa, Orbitz.com is the number two (in web traffic) online travel agency behind Expedia. In terms of mobile web adoption Orbitz also trails Expedia whose UK operation has had a wml-only Web site for several years. The new Orbitz site is much nicer … Continue reading →

Digg Mobile

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Eugenia, the developer responsible for the awesome OSNews mobile site has created a mobile front end to Digg! The site presents the current top 40 on Digg in a compact format that displays nicely on any WAP2 phone. The only thing I’m not fond of about this Digg mobile is that when you click through from the mobile page you are on the non-Mobile Digg item page which causes my phones built-in Openwave 7 browser to throw an out of … Continue reading →

411Sync

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The mobile web has really been exploding with new sites lately. The most interesting one I’ve seen is 411Sync, a site with an easy to use and very flexible API that lets content providers do mobile mashups of all sorts of query based services like driving directions, transit schedule lookups or even just plain old RSS feeds. Oliver Starr at Mobile Crunch already did a great write up of Sync411. I just want to add a little to what Oliver … Continue reading →