Leading Video Game Site Polygon.com’s Responsive Design

New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory   Mobile Link: www.polygon.com Rating: Content  Usability  Doctype: HTML Home Page Weight: 6984 KB (5118 KB compressed) Category: Entertainment and Leisure/Games/Video Game News Description: Launched in 2012 by online media powerhouse Vox (The Verge, SB Nation) Polygon grew almost overnight to become  the leading online video game news site. Much of Polycom’s success can be credited to it’s team of 20 veteran editors and reporters including former editors in chief of JoyStiq, Kotaku and … Continue reading

AutoTrader.com – Mobile Car Shopping Web App

New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory   Mobile Link: m.autotrader.com Rating: Content  Usability  Doctype: HTML Home Page Weight: 1287 KB (1152 KB compressed) Category: Shopping/Autos Description: Founded in 1997, AutoTrader.com is the US’s largest online automotive marketplace. Sell your car or shop for one using Autotrader’s searchable database of millions of new and used cars from thousands of dealers and private sellers. AutoTrader uses a separate mobile site. Mobile browsers visiting the main autotrader.com URL are redirected to the mobile … Continue reading

Opera Releases New Opera Mini 4.5 For Feature Phones.

Opera Software has released an upgraded version of Opera Mini 4.n, its lightweight Java ME proxy browser for older and low end feature phones that can’t run Opera Mini 7.1. The new release is Opera Mini 4.5 and it replaces Opera Mini 4.4 in the company’s lineup. Compared with its predecessor, Mini 4.5 adds: The download Manager from Opera Mini 7.1 which supports pausing and resuming downloads and downloading multiple files simultaneously. Better support for touchscreen devices including kinetic scrolling … Continue reading

Webkit Based Opera Browser 14 For Android Released, Overwrites Opera Mobile 12.1

On Monday Opera Software released Opera Browser 14. This is the first non-Beta Opera browser to be based on the open source WebKit layout engine rather than Opera’s legacy in-house Presto engine. Opera Browser 14 uses a very recent 537.71 version of WebKit. That’s even newer than the WebKit  version used by the Chrome browser for Android. And unlike Chrome, which requires Android 4.0 or later, Opera Browser 14 runs on Android 2.3 and later bringing the benefits of the … Continue reading

Try GetHuman.com for Fast Relief From Customer Support Headaches

New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory   Mobile Link: m.gethuman.com Rating:Content Usability Doctype: HTML Home Page Weight: 1107 KB (516 KB compressed) Category:  Search Description: One of the ways that companies try cut costs is by making it hard to reach a customer support representatives. Some of the tricks they use include hard to find support numbers, forcing callers into obtuse automated help systems and long hold times. If you have ever been frustrated trying to get … Continue reading

Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory: PandoDaily’s Responsive Site

New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory   Mobile Link: pandodaily.com Rating:Content Usability Doctype: HTML Home Page Weight: 5050 KB (3461 KB compressed) Category: Tech News Description: Founded in January, 2012 by former TechCrunch reporter Sarah Lacy, PandoDaily has quickly grown to be one of the top news sites covering Silicon Valley and the startup scene. Like virtually every other news site and blog in the world, PandoDaily is built with WordPress. Unlike the majority of WordPress sites, … Continue reading

Opera Mini For Android Updated Again To Fix Font Size Issue

On Monday Opera Software released Opera Mini 7.5.2 for Android. It was mostly a bug fix release but also included font changes. I noticed that the fonts on many sites were smaller in the new release. The new fonts made text on the effected sites hard to read and I immediately went back to the previous 7.5.1 version. Play Store reviews of the new version were largely negative as were comments on Opera’s own forums. Today Opera released Opera Mini … Continue reading

Opera Mini For Android Updated to Version 7.5.2

Opera Software has updated Opera Mini for Android. Opera calls the new release 7.5.2, although the version number on the browser’s Help > About screen is 7.5.33286. The previous 7.5.1 version was 7.5.32193 internally. According to a post by an Opera employee on the My Opera – Opera Mini Forum the changes in this release are: Improved font calculation method Improved fonts for hi-res devices Page layout improvements Various stabilization fixes I upgraded to the new release on several devices. There definitely are some … Continue reading