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PhoneNews Home PageOne of the better news blogs covering mobile. The focus is on new handset releases and US carrier news. Phone News uses WordPress and a new (to me) Wordpress plugin called wp-pda which reformats the blog as a large mobile site (around 40 KB per page), making it best suited to viewing with mobile full web browsers like Opera Mobile or Mini, Nokia WebKit or the iPhone's Safari.

There's also a PhoneNews Forum where users discuss phones and carriers. The forum is starting to get some posting activity which is the key to a successful and useful forum.

The forum runs on Invision Power Board with a new version of the WiForums mobile add-on. WiForums creates a smaller page of around 20KB which should be OK even on low spec phones. If your phone is choking on the main PhoneNews page, you can go directly to the forums by entering phonenews.com/m/forums. And if you are using a better browser WiForums is configurable using the Settings page where you increase the number of threads and posts per page and turn off pagination to make the most of your browser's capabilities.

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