Tag Archives: mobile site review

Bing Mobile Buries and Transcodes Mobile Web Sites

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Microsoft unveiled their new search engine Bing, last week with considerable fanfare.  Thanks to Google’s Wave announcement the same day it probably didn’t get as much press coverage as it deserved. Bing replaces Live Search and MSN Search.  Initial reviews  have been quite positive. Billed as a “Decision Engine”, Bing on the desktop has some nice touches including auto completion of queries, a list of related searches  in the left sidebar and  infinitely scrolling results rather than pagination for  image … Continue reading →

Lonely Planet Mobile

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Lonely Planet‘s mobile web site ( m.lonelyplanet.com) has become my new favorite free online mobile travel guide. The site provides extensive information for hundreds of cities around the world. For each destination listings cover restaurants, hotels, shopping, attractions and night life. For major cites like Vancouver there are hundreds of listings, each of which includes a brief description, click to call phone number, address, Google map and approximate price range. The site is searchable by keyword and tag and also … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #65

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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 1704 mobile sites. Technology/Internet Six Revisions m.sixrevisions.com is web designer and developer Jacob Gube’s blog. Jacob covers both design and development with tips, opinions and tutorials by himself and guest authors. Jacob created the mobile view of his site with Mobify. Content: Usability: CSS-Tricks m.css-tricks.com On … Continue reading →

Ovi Store Live!

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This morning when I refreshed the Download application on my Nokia N95-3 (NAM) I was greeted by the new Ovi Store icon.  Clicking it launched the browser and took me to store.ovi.mobi. Initially the site was very slow and timed out a couple of times but now two hours later it seems fine with snappy page loads and quick searches. The desktop version of the store at store.ovi.com still seems to be suffering from first day overload  with frequent hangs … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #64

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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 1685 mobile sites. Entertainment/Life Style/Fashion and Style The Lily Review lily.co.ke Mobile edition of a blog targeted at Kenyan women and offering relationship advice and beauty tips. Mobile version created with the Mobile Pack WordPress plugin. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory. Content: Usability: Weather … Continue reading →

Destination Hotels’ New Mobile Site

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Destination Hotels and Resorts is a 30 property U.S. chain with hotels on the east and west coasts and in Colorado and Hawaii. Their recently launched mobile site is a simple directory of properties with several pages of information, a map and photos for each one. There is no online booking or availability information but direct click to call numbers are provided for each hotel.  I can understand not providing online booking given the complexity of handling of mobile credit … Continue reading →

webtel.mobi – Another Choice For Cheap International Calling

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Webtel.mobi offers low cost international calling and texts. For calls, webtel uses a callback system similar to competitors Rebtel and JaJah. You enter the party you’re calling’s number on the the mobile site and webtel calls you back with the call connected. Calling rates start at 3 cents/minute (plus a 5 cent connection fee).  Rates vary among the three services  depending on the country pairs involved so you might want to do a little comparison shopping before you pick one. … 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 →