Tag Archives: mobile site review

Found on the Mobile Web #50

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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.com mobile site directory.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1351 mobile sites. Credit to  Oh! Mobile Directory for discovering the majority of these sites. Travel-Transit/Transit Vancouver TransLink m.translink.ca Schedules for bus, train and ferry service operated by Vancouver, BC’s TransLink public transit agency.  The site also features the agency’s blog.  An iPhone … Continue reading →

Google Mobile Book Search

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Google continues to roll out new mobile products.  Monday it was Tasks, yesterday Latitude and today we have Google Mobile Book Search at books.google.com/m.  It’s an iPhonesque mobile interface into 1.5 million  public domain books that Google has scanned as part of its Book Search project. I heard about it first  from microflash on Twitter.  There’s an official announcement on the Inside Book Search blog. The new mobile interface lets you search  for and read any of  the 1.5 million … Continue reading →

Google Tasks For Mobile Released

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Yesterday Google launched a mobile web version of  their Beta Tasks web application. Tasks is a Google Labs product currently.  Before you can use it on your phone you have to first go into the “standard” (not basic HTML) desktop version of gMail, click on “Settings” and then on the “Labs” tab and enable Tasks. On the full web, Google Tasks is integrated into Gmail.  The mobile version is a stand alone page.  To view it visit gmail.com/tasks (in some … Continue reading →

Mathew Miller’s New Site – Nokia Experts

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Remember Mathew Miller at ZDNet’s “Smartphones and Cell Phones”? He’s the guy who wrote the ultimate T-Mobile G1 launch day review with  five videos and 260 images including a shot of every single screen and dialog box on the phone! Matthew’s back with a new site, his third and it covers my favorite mobile hardware brand. The new site is Nokia Experts and it’s about Nokia phones and software for them.  Nokia Experts is available on both  the full web … Continue reading →

CAT Scale – A .Mobi For Truckers

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I don’t know how many truckers read Wap Review but I bet there are at least a few. So here’s a dedicated trucking industry mobile site. It’s a  truck scale locator from CAT Scale, a company that manufactures and operates automatic truck scales. The URL is catscale.mobi CAT Scale claims to be the largest truck scale network in the world, with over 1,200 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. It’s important for truckers to know the weight of their rigs … Continue reading →

NHL Mobile

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The National Hockey League (NHL) which is professional hockey in the US and Canada has launched a slick new mobile site at m.nhl.com.  It includes a mobile version of NHL Game Center which displays today’s games with live scores in a grid.  Clicking on a game row opens a view with a summary of scoring plays  from that game.  Game Center has a history feature that lets you to skip back a day at a time  to  see a recap … Continue reading →

idiomag – Personalized Mobile Music News and Videos

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idiomag is a personalized online music magazine offering the latest in music news, reviews, music tracks and streaming videos. While anyone can use idiomag and get generic content, if you register at idiomag.com you can set you musical preferences and import your profile from last.fm Pandora, iLike, Playlist.com, MyStrands, MOG or Songza.  idiomag will then be personalized with music recommendations, tracks and videos based on your musical likes. idiomag’s mobile edition (m.idiomag.com) includes news, reviews and videos. It uses browser … Continue reading →

Zillow Mobile

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Zillow.com has gone mobile with a site at mobile.zillow.com.  Zillow is a familiar name for house hunters in the US. It’s s a real estate search site that was started by a couple of Microsoft and Expedia alumni and has really taken off,  thanks to its unique interface that makes obscure public records of home sales and assessments highly available and accessible to anyone. The way Zillow works  is that you enter any US residential address and get back you … Continue reading →