Tag Archives: Apple

Found On The Mobile Web #242

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Sephora

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2354 mobile sites. Shopping/Stores Sephora m.sephora.com Sephora’s mobile optimized site accepts gift cards and uses billing and shipping information from user profiles to simplify shopping for beauty, skin care, makeup, hair and fragrance products from your phone. Via: New York Times Content: Usability: Shopping … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #220

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2263 mobile sites. Comics GoComics www.gocomics.com Hundreds of popular newspaper comic strips including Doonesbury, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbs as well as editorial comics from Pat Oliphant, Dan Wasserman and others plus a large selection of comics en Español. Both current and previous … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #207

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2184 mobile sites. Entertainment/Electronic Games Gamertell m.gamertell.com Sister site to the Gadgetell gadget blog, Gamertell covers all forms of electronic gaming including PC, console, handheld and mobile games with reviews and industry news.  Good content but the inclusion of Flash videos, which don’t … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #200

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2118 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio/Video Tubidy tubidy.mobi Tubidy is a new mobile front end to YouTube. Browse or search for videos from your country or globaly. Videos are converted to 3gp format and should be compatibile with most any phone that supports video … Continue reading →

MacWorld.com For Mobiles

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I just discovered that Macworld, the biggest Apple specific print magazine, has a mobile version of their Macworld.com website. Actually there are two mobile versions; one for iPhones, Palm WebOS and Android phones and a different one for everyone else. The “middleweb”/iPhone version has the polished look of a typical iPhone Web App and includes the images and videos from the desktop site. When you follow a deep link from another site with a supported device, the mobile version of … Continue reading →

Is the Web on Mobile Phones “Total Rubbish”?

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Photo: Yummy Scummy by Zach Manchester – Some Rights Reserved There’s been quite a stir lately about the viability of the Web on mobile devices with various folks pronouncing it inferior especially in comparison with mobile applications. Yesterday Malcolm Murphy at Mobile Industry Review blasted; “Can we all admit that ‘Mobile Web’ is total rubbish? ” He pointed out that there’s a huge gap in performance and usability between web apps in desktop browsers and those on phone.  Specifically; Mobile … Continue reading →

iPhone 3.0 – What’s it mean for Nokia and Palm?

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At the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement today,  Apple reacted to its growing competition from S60 touch devices, Android and Palm Pre by announcing a massive upgrade. 3.0 will ship “this summer”  and a Beta is available today to all registered iPhone developers.  What Apple has done is to fill in  most of the feature gaps in the iPhone spec.  This is important.  While the iPhone design language and user interface have been head and shoulders above the competition since day … Continue reading →

New Sites By Wap Review Readers

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A couple of regular Wap Review readers contacted me this week to announce new mobile sites they have created. I don’t automatically post about every personal site that I hear about but these are quality sites offering unique content so I’m more than willing to add them to the directory and portal and give them a little plug. First up is Ryan Kairer whose PhoneFavs and Palm InfoCenter I’ve covered previously. The prolific Ryan has just launched three new mobile … Continue reading →