Scot at the Mippin Blog has posted this week’s Carnival (mobile version). As always, it’s full of tasty posts on everything mobile. Post of the week honors go to krisse at All About Symbian for his great piece on how the capabilities of low end phones are the real indicator of how far mobile technology has advanced. Plenty of other good posts in this Carnival, which again lives up to it’s billing as “the week’s best writing on mobile”.
US CDMA carrier, Sprint PCS released its answer to the iPhone on June 20th. It’s called the Samsung Instinct (SCH-M800) and while it’s no match for the iPhone it’s still a nice device in many respects. With a large (but smaller than the iPhone’s) 3.1 inch touch screen with haptic feedback, no physical keyboard, threaded voicemail and SMS and a full-web browser, the Instinct matches some of the best known features of Apple’s phone and even has a few things … Continue reading
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are less than a month away, August, 8th. There doesn’t seem to be much pre-Olympic hype as in years, at least here in the US. But dedicated Olympics mobile sites are starting to appear. I’ve found a dozen so far. The official site of the 2008 games Beijing2008.cn has a mobile edition in English at wap.beijing2008.cn/pams/s.do?p=507&lo=en. It’s a “one size fits all” wml site but is quite comprehensive with news, schedules and free wallpaper downloads for … Continue reading
The distinction between the mobile web and the “full” web is getting fuzzy. We have millions of phones running full-web browsers such as Opera, Safari, S60Webkit and NetFront that can display almost any web site. Not only can these browsers handle JavaScript but the latest S60WebKit can play Flash .flv videos in the browser and it plus Opera Mobile 8.65 and 9.5 do a decent job with AJAX pages. Web developers should be asking “Which version of my pages should … Continue reading
Gizmo5 has a new mobile web front end to their IP based Internet telephony and messaging platform. It’s sort of the Swiss Army Knife of mobile web based communications. Gizmo lets users communicate by IM on nine different networks and by SMS, e-mail and voice – all from a single integrated contact list. Gizmo5 is often compared with Skype. Both let you make free computer to computer calls and low cost calls to phones worldwide. Unlike Skype though, Gizmo5 is … Continue reading
The Carnival ot the Mobilists that is. This week the famous traveling showcase of mobile themed blog posts is at the mjelly mobile internet blog. James at mjelly has picked a dozen and one items to highlight as the week’s best writing on mobile. Lots of good stuff this time including pieces on what’s up with Symbian and Openwave, both of which have new owners and new directions, a look at Vodafone’s future under a new CEO, posts on Nokia’s … Continue reading
I love OpenTable. If you aren’t familiar with the service, it’s an online search for available reservations at local restaurants. You select your city, preferred dinning time, the size of your party and optionally the neighborhood and cuisine and OpenTable returns a list all the restaurants that have availability. It such a time saver compared with calling up restaurant after restaurant, being put on hold for five minutes and then being told “Sorry we have nothing available at that time”. … Continue reading
The iPhone has done so much to generate interest in using the web on phones with its big, beautiful screen and powerful browser with full JavaScript and CSS support. But the iPhone feature that seems to excite people the most is “Pinch to Zoom”. Apple has given the UI, including the browser, a multi-touch interface that lets you use two fingers to zoom; you slide your fingers apart to zoom in and see more details, slide them together to zoom … Continue reading