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Content: ****  Usability: XXX1/2
m.aol.com (xhtml-mp)

AOL MobileAmerica Online's mobile site. AOL seems to making more of it's content available to non-members. Currently, this includes news, weather, sports, business, Yellow and White Pages as well as links to other AOL properties like Mapquest, DigitalCity and MovieFone, The news, sports and business sections are quite good with full length articles. Usability of the WML site is optimized for Openwave browsers and is awkward on others. The xhtml (wap2) site was launched August 2005 is is quite good, and adds search to the available options. AOL searches for full web sites rather than mobile sites and reformats the results to make them usable on WAP 2.0 phones Mobile and Shopping searches are also offered.


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