Monthly Archives: December 2009

Official English UCWEB 7.0 Browser Reviewed – Great Feature Set But Many Sites Fail To Load

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The long awaited English version of UCWEB 7  is now available: PC Download Page, Mobile Download Page.  UCWEB is one of the most popular mobile browsers in the world with 40 million active users, most of them in China where the company is based.  The new release, which is also available in Russian and Chinese,  is offered for Java, Windows Mobile 2003 through 6.5 (touchscreen and non-touchscreen) and Symbian S60 1st through 5th edition.  Versions for BlackBerry, jailbroken iPhones and … Continue reading →

tnkgrl Mobile – Great Gadget Reviews and Hacks

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Thanks to WordPress.com now automatically generating a mobile formatted version of all hosted blogs, one of my favorite mobile and gadget sites, tnkgrl Mobile, is finally mobile friendly! tnkgrl always seems to get the latest phones, netbooks and tablets before anyone else.  Not only does she unbox, review, photograph and video her review units in exhaustive detail but she also takes them apart, hacks and unlocks them. Only tnkgrl will show you how to add internal Bluetooth and a 3G … Continue reading →

Looking Back At My 2009 Predictions – How Did I Do?

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Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks – Photo by Adam.J.W.C. Some Rights Reserved With 2009 drawing to a close it’s time to look back at the predictions for 2009 that I made a year ago. How did I do? I predicted that: 1. At least a half a dozen new Android phones will be released in 2009 and the total installed base of Android OS phones will exceed five million by year end. Correct. Depending on who’s counting there were between … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #195

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2075 mobile sites. Shopping SlickDeals m.slickdeals.net User driven deals sites. Share hot shopping deals with the Slickdeals community. Good search function. But large page size (50KB) means this site requires a lot on scrolling and won’t load on some feature phones. Content: Usability: … Continue reading →

GotMercury.mobi – How Much Seafood is Too Much?

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All seafood contains mercury. Some is naturally occurring but about half of the mercury in the environment is the result of burning coal and natural gas, gold mining, smelting and cement production. Eating fish high in mercury can be harmful to health, particularly for pregnant women, nursing mothers, women who might become pregnant, and children. The US EPA and FDA have published guidelines for safe levels of consumption. This mobile friendly calculator from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project helps you … Continue reading →

A Mobile Friendly PageRank Finder

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I know that a lot of webmasters obsess over their site’s Google PageRank. It’s one of Google’s measures (on a scale of 0 to 10) of a site’s value. A higher PageRank is supposed to correlate with  high placements in search results and thus potentially greater ad revenue. Google seems to be devaluing PageRank of late, removing it from Webmaster Tools and publicly stating that it is only one of 200 signals that they use to rank sites and claiming … Continue reading →

S60 Opera Mobile 10 Text Entry Bug and Workarounds

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Ah, the joys of beta software.  It turns out that the  Beta 2 “Update”  release of Opera Mobile 10 that I raved about last week has a bug that inserts random text in mult-line edit fields. It’s bad enough to make using Web-mail and most online Twitter clients almost impossible. The problem occurs as soon as you type text that extends beyond the width of the screen. When Opera wraps the text to the next line it also copies part … Continue reading →

WOMWorld’s Mobile Friendly Redesign

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Nokia’s WOMWorld received a redesign last week. Gone are the dozens of static product images which slowed pge loads and were only interesting the first time you viewed the site. The new layout is lighter, cleaner looking and loads much faster. A nice side effect of the redesigns is that WOMWorld is now available in a mobile friendly version, created with Crowd Favorite’s WordPress Mobile Edition. WOMWorld is a news aggregator that pulls together the latest news and opinions about … Continue reading →