Tag Archives: mobile site review

An Explosion of Mobile Banking Sites

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Here’s another sign that the mobile web is going mainstream. I’ve seen a huge increase in the number of banks offering web based mobile banking recently. Banks are very conservative when it comes to rolling out new online services. Until recently, there were only a few banks offering any sort of mobile banking and many of those that did, like CitiBank, took the route of using downloadable applications.  Bank of America was the first major US bank to offer mobile … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 48

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Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional 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 1293 mobile sites. News/International/Europe NewsNow (nnmob.com) which claims to be “The UK’s #1 News Portal” is a River of News style aggregator which is updated every five minutes with news headlines from hundreds of online sources around the world.  The mobile page includes just the headline … Continue reading →

G-SNAP – Mobile Social Datacasting

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G-SNAP! is a new social network based around live updates from events. Users create “SnapCasts” which are channels dedicated to a particular a sporting event, concert, conference or  live news event. The person who created the SnapCast posts updates in the form of  text, photos and  videos.  SnapCasts are public, anyone can view a SnapCast and any registered G-SNAP! user can add comments to it.  SnapCasts remind me of Twittter hashtags but with multimedia  integration. They also have two features … Continue reading →

Compare Book Prices With Your Phone

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Here’s a new mobile site that helps you find the lowest price for any book. It’s a mobile friendly version of bestbookbuys.com. Visit m.bestbookbuys.com and enter the 10 or 13 digit ISBN code found on the back cover of most books and the site will return a list of retailers and prices. BestBookBuys gets several things right that other mobile price comparison sites seem to stumble with. Prices are prominently displayed in the initial results listing, not buried several clicks … Continue reading →

Here and Now, Nokia’s New Mobile Portal

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Nokia launched a new mobile site yesterday called “Here and Now“. It’s a mobile portal emphasizing music news and movie reviews from Rolling Stone and also featuring news from Reuters,  gossip from US Weekly, game and  application downloads, videos and a small directory of 3rd party mobile websites.  Nokia claims Here and Now is targeted at 18 to 35 year olds.  That’s OK by me if it keeps the marketing pros at Nokia employed but I really don’t see how  … Continue reading →

TicketMaster’s Low Tech Solution to the Mobile Payment Problem

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I’ve been pretty disappointed with attempts to offer online event ticketing via the mobile web. The sites I’ve looked at have been marred by pretty serious usability issues.  A lot of the problems are related to payment. There really aren’t any convenient ways to pay for purchases on the mobile web that are also widely adopted.  The mobile versions of PayPal and Google Checkout are easy to use but don’t seem to have caught on with consumers or merchants.  On … Continue reading →

FriendFeed To Go

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It’s not new, but I just discovered this mobile FriendFeed client.  It’s called FFtoGo and the mobile URL is fftogo.com.  It wasn’t developed by FriendFeed but is the creation of Benjamin Golub. He was later hired by FriendFeed but FFtoGo remains independent. The code for FFtoGo is open source, there’s even a link to the source repository at the bottom of each FFtoGo page. If you aren’t familiar with FriendFeed (FF), it’s a service that lets you roll up the … Continue reading →

BlackBerry Tips and Downloads

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As a new user of an old BlackBerry 7100i, I’ve been making heavy use of the LazyWeb and its offspring, the LazyMobile Web to learn the secrets of this powerful but quirky device and to find games and apps to download.  Here are quick reviews of a couple of BlackBerry specific mobile sites I’ve found useful. I’ve added them to the WapReview Directory’s BlackBerry section. BlackBerryTrade (mobile.blackberrytrade.com)  is a relatively new BlackBerry news blog, user forum and download site. The … Continue reading →