Category Archives: Site Reviews

Skyfire 0.9 – WVGA Support, Twitter and Facebook Integration

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Skyfire released a new Beta of their free mobile browser for Windows Mobile and S60, Version 0.9. This is a big upgrade, the release notes are huge. Here are some of the highlights. Skyfire now supports almost all Windows Mobile screen resolutions; QVGA (320×240, 240×320), WQVGA (400×240), VGA (640×480), and WVGA (800×480).  On S60, support for the N80’s 352×416 resolution has been added.  No joy for E90 (800 x 352) users yet though. Twitter and Facebook integration: Your Twitter timeline … Continue reading →

Wamaja – A New Mobile Social Network With Federated IM

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Wamaja (wamaja.mobi) is a new mobile-only social network with blogs, photo sharing, chat and integrated instant messaging .  Wamaja members can IM with each other and with users on Google Talk, Chikka, Gizmo Tiscali.it and Jabber. I found the inter-network IM worked well.  Using it is easy although initially unintuitive and not documented anywhere on the site.  What you do is add the party you want to IM with as a new friend using the format <user>@gmail.com.  They will get … Continue reading →

Mathew Miller’s New Site – Nokia Experts

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Remember Mathew Miller at ZDNet’s “Smartphones and Cell Phones”? He’s the guy who wrote the ultimate T-Mobile G1 launch day review with  five videos and 260 images including a shot of every single screen and dialog box on the phone! Matthew’s back with a new site, his third and it covers my favorite mobile hardware brand. The new site is Nokia Experts and it’s about Nokia phones and software for them.  Nokia Experts is available on both  the full web … Continue reading →

NHL Mobile

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The National Hockey League (NHL) which is professional hockey in the US and Canada has launched a slick new mobile site at m.nhl.com.  It includes a mobile version of NHL Game Center which displays today’s games with live scores in a grid.  Clicking on a game row opens a view with a summary of scoring plays  from that game.  Game Center has a history feature that lets you to skip back a day at a time  to  see a recap … Continue reading →

Snappr – Mobile Price Comparison

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Continuing with the holiday shopping theme I started yesterday, Snappr (snappr.mobi) is an online shopping search and price comparison site.  It’s the mobile variant of Snappr.net on the web. Snappr is new, both the .net and the .mobi launched this year. The mobile site opens to a simple search box where you can enter a product name or the number that appears under the UPC bar code found  on most products.  Snappr returns a list of products with price, a … Continue reading →

Mobile Web Bargain Hunting

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How’s your holiday shopping going? Spending more than you like?  Here are a couple of mobile web sites to help you find the best deals. CheapenGadget (cheapengadget.com) is a new site from MechaWorks, publisher of PhoneNews.com. It’s a blog style “Deal” site that’s updated several times a day with the best deals on consumer electronics, computers, mobile phones and accessories both on the web and in stores. Christopher Price and his team at MechaWorks did a great job of leaking … Continue reading →

New Opera Mini Beta Available

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Opera has released a Beta of Version 4.2 of the popular Opera Mini browser.  Opera Mini is a free Java ME browser that brings full-web browsing to hundreds of phone models including most inexpensive feature phones. The new version adds numerous bug fixes and four new features: Skins: You can change the color and styling of Opera Mini’s “chrome” to seven predefined schemes. Improved Performance: The Beta switches between  a new Opera proxy server farm in the US or the … Continue reading →

First Interstate – Mobile Banking Security Using SMS

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First Interstate Bank, a regional bank with 50 locations and 100 ATMs in Montana and Wyoming, has launched a mobile banking site at firstinterstate.mobi. The bank is doing a good job of promoting the site with a prominent ad on their web home page and an extensive video tutorial. Themobile  site has ATM and branch lookups which do not require a login to use and include maps, driving directions and, for the branches, hours and click to call phone numbers. … Continue reading →