/Home/News/International/Australia and New Zealand
All the news from Down Under
What's This?

Sydney Morning Herald

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
m.smh.com.au/ (HTML5)

Mobile edition of the Australian daily newspaper has local, national and world news plus entertainment, technology, sports, travel and business sections and current and four day weather forecasts.

Screenshots

Sydney Morning Herald Homepage Sydney Morning Herald - Item Page


What's This?

NineNews (AU)

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
mobileportal.ninemsn.com.au/ (xhtml-mp)

A New Australian national news site. NineNews covers international and national news, sports. finance, technology and weather. This site has lots of photos which are re-sized to fit the screen widths of various browsers. Still, the number of images pushes page weight over 40 KB resulting in slow page loads on slow networks and low end phones.

 


What's This?

ABC News

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
m.abc.net.au (xhtml-mp)

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's mobile site has headline, sports and entertainment news, weather, movie reviews and showtimes and TV and radio broadcast schedules. Source Oh! Mobile Directory


What's This?

The Age

Content: ****1/2  Usability: X1/2
mobile.theage.com.au/ (HTML5)
The Age is an Australian web news site. The mobile edition contains a large selection of full length articles from the web site. A recent redesign has made this site much more usable. There are separate sections for National, World, Sports, Business and Technology news. Long articles are paginated and include images
What's This?

NZHerald

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
mobile.nzherald.co.nz (xhtml-mp)

The New Zealand Herald's new mobile site has National, World, Business, Sports, Techology and Entertainment News, Weather and Traffic in a nicely designed site that should work on all phones.


What's This?

Brisbane Times

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
mobile.brisbanetimes.com.au (xhtml-mp)

National, World, Business, Technology, Entertainment news from Australian online news site, the Brisbane Times.  Source Oh! Mobile Directory


'
What's This?
QR Code
It's a QR (Quick Response) Code containing the URL of WapReview Mobile. Snap it with your phone's QR Code reader to go to the WapReview mobile site.

Ratings Key :

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.