Mobility Beat
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m.mobilitybeat.com (HTML5)
m.mobilitybeat.com (HTML5)
Mobility Beat gathers the latest mobile industry and handset news from several dozen sites including All About Symbian, Phone Scoop, Engadget Mobile, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, MobileBurn and many lesser known blogs including Wap Review. The site's attractive front page lists the title of each item together with the site's favicon. Items posted in the last hour are marked with a blue dot. You can filter the items to include only a articles covering a specific topic like Android or Windows Mobile. Clicking a headline leads to a summary page which has options to go to the full article on the site where it was published, view a mobilized version or add the item as a social bookmark on PhonFavs. MobilitBeat uses PhoneFavs own transcoder which is fairly basic. It does a good job of reformatting pages as a single column but does not split pages or resize images. Mobilized pages from image heavy sites like TechCrunch may be too large to load on phones with basic Wap browsers. My suggestion, use Google's transcoder instead. It works, it's free and Google doesn't seem to mind.