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I was reading Twitter the other day using Mobile Tweete<\/a> in Opera Mini 5 on my N95.\u00a0 This was at the start of the “Google Phone<\/a>” ruckus.\u00a0 I saw a tweet by @ScottSeaborn linking to some of the first published photos of the Nexus One on Gizmodo<\/span>.\u00a0 Clicking the link<\/a> took me to a mobile formatted page<\/a> “powered by Quattro”. The photos on the mobile page were so tiny that I got no sense of what the phone actually looked like.\u00a0 No problem I thought, I’ll just go to the full version of Gizmodo to see the original images.\u00a0 There was a handy “Click here to view the classic Gizmodo<\/span>” link at the top of the page which I clicked. Imagine my surprise when I landed on the Gizmodo homepage with no sign of the Nexus One story<\/span> which had already been pushed off the front page by newer items.<\/p>\n

Besides the tiny images there are other things missing on the mobile page too like the ability to leave a comment. Delivering a mobile formatted page to mobile browsers is great but it should also be easy to reach the full version of the content if desired.<\/p>\n

The “classic Gizmodo” link on mobile Gizmodo is pretty worthless. I\u00a0 had followed a deep link to the desktop version a specific page of content.\u00a0 Gizmodo\/Quattro detected a mobile browser and helpfully delivered a mobile formatted version. If I find the mobile version too limited, I almost surely want to see the original version of the same article, NOT the homepage!<\/span><\/p>\n

To me this is an aspect of mobile thematic consistency<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s good to offer the user versions of content formatted for various devices but links between them need to deliver the same core content,\u00a0 not an unrelated pages.<\/p>\n

As for the Google phone, the phone itself\u00a0 is real. The $199 unlocked price and $29\/month pre-paid unlimited data plan with unlimited VOIP calling are nothing but unsubstantiated rumors at this point.<\/strong> I hope the rumors are true but I’m skeptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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