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Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
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idiomag is a personalized online music magazine offering the latest in music news, reviews, music tracks and streaming videos.

While anyone can use idiomag and get generic content, if you register at idiomag.com you can set you musical preferences and import your profile from last.fm Pandora, iLike, Playlist.com, MyStrands, MOG or Songza.  idiomag will then be personalized with music recommendations, tracks and videos based on your musical likes.

The mobile edition includes news, reviews and videos. It uses browser detection and adaptation to deliver a "lite" version to basic phones and a richer presentation to advanced handsets like S60 3rd edition phones using Webkit and the iPhone. Opera Mini only gets the basic version, unfortunately.

I'm a little concerned with idiomag's page size. The lite version is a surprising large 28 KB, too large for many low-end phones to display completely. The culprit is poor image optimization. A single 50x50 thumbnail is over 18 KB; By removing the EXIF header and increasing the jpeg compression I was able to get the image size down to 1,191 Bytes.  Can you see the difference? I can't - the optimized image is on the right.

Bloated thumbnail with EXIF headed Optimized Image
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Content - 0-5 *'s indicating the quality of the site's writing, depth, timeliness and accuracy.

Usability - 0-5 X's indicating the usability of the site on a mobile device, based on ease and intuitivness of navigation and lack of excessive scrolling through ads etc. to reach main content.