Tag Archives: mobile site review

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 →

Found on the Mobile Web #60

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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 1615 mobile sites. Sports Yachts and Yachting www.yandy.co.uk Sailboat racing news as it happens. News, race reports and results. Links to maritime weather sites. Source Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Search/Local Pizza Hut quikorder.pizzahut.com/phorders2/mobileLogin.php Online ordering and store finder for U.S. Pizza Hut … Continue reading →

CHOW For Mobile Foodies

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CHOW is probably the largest and liveliest gourmet site on the mobile web. It’s the mobilized version of the full web CHOW.com which was created in 2006 when CNET acquired the popular foodie message board Chowhound.com and the high end print magazine CHOW and combined them into online only CHOW.com CHOW Mobile seems to be targeted at high end mobiles, the 99KB front page is too large to even load on most feature phones.  If  your handset is capable. you’ll … Continue reading →

Martha White Mobile Recipes – Southern Comfort Food

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Martha White is a Nashville, Tennessee flour mill whose products are marketed primarily in the U.S. Southern states. The company is noted for its long time support of Country and Bluegrass music. It has been a sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry since 1948 and has used well known performers including Flatt and Scruggs, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Allison Krauss in its ads and radio spots over the years. Martha White recently launched this well designed mobile recipe site with … Continue reading →

Goodrec – User Generated Ratings in 160 Characters

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Goodrec is another user generated reviews site somewhat like Zagat, Yelp and Boorah. Like Yelp, Goodrec is not limited to covering restaurants, users can rate and recommend anything; clubs, hotels, restaurants, services, products, etc. Goodrec differentiates itself from its competitors in a couple of ways. For one, Goodrec limits reviews (which it calls “recommendations”) to a concise and mobile friendly 160 characters and encourages users to submit them from their mobiles. In a video interview, Goodrec co-founder touts the ease … Continue reading →

AAA Mobile – TourBook and Directions

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The American Automobile Association (AAA) mobile site is a useful one to bookmark for US residents and visitors alike whether they are driving or not. Most services do not require an AAA membership to use. The best part of AAA Mobile is the “TourBook” which provides online mobile access to the hotel, restaurant, event and attractions listings in the AAA’s print guidebooks. The AAA guides are quite comprehensive, easily rivaling commercial guides like Fodors. Listings include descriptions, address, click to … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #59

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Found on the Mobile Web is an 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 1597 mobile sites. Entertainment/Life Style Guggenheim Venice peggyg.mobi/homeeng_9.php Information site for visitors to the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Lists hours, special exhibitions, tours and fees and also has click to call phone numbers and directions to the museum. Source Mobility.mobi Content: Usability: News/International/Europe … Continue reading →

PocketMalta – Events, Attractions, Shops and Restaurants

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Information on events, attractions and other visitor services for the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. The site also has Malta and international news headlines and directory of shops, restaurants and clubs, a page of information about Malta and another with click to call numbers for emergency services The directory of shops and services seems incomplete with, for example, only a single listing (a hairdresser) in Birkirkara, Malta’s largest (population 21,000) town. Most listings contain only the business name and address, … Continue reading →