Found On The Mobile Web – 187

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 1997 mobile sites. Travel-Transit Wikitravel wikitraveler.info a free worldwide travel guide that is built and maintained by its community of users. It has over 20,000 articles in the English edition. Wikitravel provides background information on destinations including language, cuisine, customs, currency and things … Continue reading

Love and Words – Poet/Filmmaker Cassandra Tribe’s Mobile Blog

Cassandra Tribe is an American poet and filmmaker noted not only for her poetry but also for her readings and videos in which she uses changes in the pitch and timbre of her voice along with music, costume and makeup to achieve dramatic effects. Love and Words is Tribe’s blog where she shares her life experiences, philosophical essays and an occasional poem. The mobile version of Love and Words includes blog posts, a rotating selection of poems and stills from … Continue reading

Fans Get Daily Updates From the New England Patriot’s Mobile Site

The New England Patriots are historically one of the winningest teams in the NFL and their mobile site is pretty good too, at least if you have a fairly capable handset. The attractive and easy to navigate design is by Quattro Wireless. Browser detection is used to optimize image and page sizes to work well with a wide range of phones. The minimum page weight of 32 KB is too large for some low-end feature phones, however. The site features … Continue reading

Found On The Mobile Web 185

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 1975 mobile sites. Search/Local/City and Campus Guides Tucson Weekly m.tucsonweekly.com Guide to dinning, movies and events in Tucson, Arizona. Content: Usability: Reference exchangerates.mobi exchangerates.mobi Live currency exchange rates and conversion between 173 currencies, including precious metals and obsolete currencies. Source Mobilty.mobi Content: Usability: … Continue reading

Google Wave Is On Android and the iPhone

I’m on Google Wave now thanks to an invite from the Symbian Guru himself, Ricky Cadden. I haven’t really explored Wave very much yet. I’m kind of discouraged because I only have a couple of Wave contacts and Google doesn’t seem to have given me any invites to share with my friends and WapReview readers. I did discover an undocumented mobile interface to Wave though. It only seems to work on the iPhone and Android devices.  To see it visit … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web 183

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 1951 mobile sites. Sports SEC Sports m.secdn.com Official site of the The Southeastern Conference (SEC) which features some of the strongest schools in US college sports including football powerhouse Alabama and perennial NCAA women’s basketball champions Tennessee. The conference’s mobile site has live … Continue reading

K&L Wines Mobile – Wines and Spirits Reviewed and Rated

One of the better mobile wine sites. K&L is a connoisseurs wine and liquor shop with stores in San Francisco, Redwood City and Hollywood, California. They also accept online orders with shipping to states where permitted by local laws and also to Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. K&L’s mobile site is a searchable, categorized directory of their current inventory of wines and spirits with descriptions, ratings and a photo of the bottle and label. Orders can be placed by … Continue reading

Google Local Gets Categories and “Starred Places”

Google updated their mobile web based local search yesterday. There are a number of enhancements that combined could potentially make it my new favorite local mobile search engine. Here’s what’s new: Location enabled – Google local on Android and the iPhone have been location aware for a while, now location support has been sort of extended to all platforms. How is that possible given that only Android, the iPhone, BlackBerries and Windows Mobile devices with Gears installed  support sharing your … Continue reading