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Former Engadget editor in chief Joshua Topolsky's new tech news site, The Verge, went live Nov 1st.

I'm happy to report that The Verge has a nicely done mobile version. Based on Vox Media's proprietary publishing platform The Verge's mobile edition features a mini-slideshow at the top of the homepage. Thankfully the sideshow is not automated. Below it are thumb-nailed links to recent posts in chronological order followed by a topic menu. Individual posts are presented as a single page without unneeded pagination and include all the images and videos from the original post.

The mobile version works well with current smartphone browsers including the Symbian and Android browsers as well as Opera Mini. With page sizes hovering around 400 KB it's not well suited for typical feature phone browsers.

There are a couple of areas for potential improvement. There's no site search in the mobile version and the "dots" to go to the next image in the lideshow are too small to hit reliably using touch.


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