Tag Archives: Hotels

Found On The Mobile Web #248

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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 2366 mobile sites. Tech/Mobile/OS – Brand Specific/Microsoft WP Central  m.wpcentral.com Formerly WMExperts, WP Central is a news blog covering Windows Phone. Hardware and software reviews, news and rumors. Part of the Mobile Nations network (Android Central, Crackberry, TiPb and PreCentral). Content  Usability Travel-Transit/Transit Metra Mobile metrarail.com/metra/wap/en/ Schedules, fare information, maps, nearest station … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #202

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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 2131 mobile sites. Sports/Winter Olympics Yahoo Olympics! m.yahoo.com/olympics Both Yahoo and Google waited until the last minute to launch their Olympic mobile sites with both popping  up on the eve of the games. Yahoo gives most smartphones, touch devices and Opera Mini users … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #199

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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. Travel-Transit/Transit BC Ferries: mobile.bcferries.com A very slick site from BC Ferries, which provides vehicle and passenger ferry service between the mainland, Vancouver Island and other islands in British Columbia’s Gulf of Georgia. It features comprehensive schedules, dockside webcams, vessel tracking … Continue reading →

Lodging.mobi

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Lodging.mobi is the latest in a number of new mobile hotel search and reservation sites to launch this year. Nice to see this long neglected area of the mobile web finally getting some attention. The site has an inventory of over 75,000 hotels around the world. It uses browser detection and adaptation to deliver page and image sizes optimized for six different classes of device and should be usable on virtually any phone. The user interface is straight forward with … Continue reading →

Hyatt Hotel’s New Mobile Site

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Hotel booking sites are traditionally the usability black hole of the mobile web. Finding and booking a hotel at the last minute is something every traveler occasionally has to do. The mobile web seems like an ideal way to do this, yet the major booking sites and hotel chains do not seem to have much interest in capturing this enormous opportunity. Most mobile hotel sites appear to be thrown together with no real usability testing or understanding of the unique … Continue reading →

KeyToss – Best Mobile Hotel Search and Booking Site Yet?

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I’ve been pretty dissatisfied with most of the mobile hotel search and booking sites I’ve tried. I don’t know what it is about this category but hotel sites always seem to have serious usability problems; unnecessarily complex search forms, illogically sorted results, listings for hotels that turn out to have no availability, “bait and switch” pricing or prices buried several levels deep making comparison shopping unnecessarily complex. This week KeyToss launched a new mobile hotel booking service at  h.keytoss.com. I’ve covered KeyToss before. … Continue reading →

Hotel.mobi – Not as Promised

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I saw a  press release today on TMC.net touting a new hotel search and booking site; ” Hotel.mobi, a portal run by Quinv SA, a Luxembourg-based company that invests in domain names and high value web portals, has announced the official launch of its website, http://www.hotel.mobi a web directory enabling mobile users to find the hotels near their current location and call the hotels’ booking desks in one single click.” All of which sounds great.  For some reason mobile sites … Continue reading →

Priceline.mobi

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I like using Priceline.com for booking hotels.   It’s an “opaque” auction site where you bid for a room by minimum star rating, city and district.  You don’t find out the name of the hotel until you submit a wining bid. I’ve found some great deals over the years using Priceline, the LA Omni for $50/night and both the Hyatt Regency and Marriott Pinnacle in Vancouver, BC for $60/night.  Of course you don’t usually get such a good price, but … Continue reading →