Found on the Mobile Web #56

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 1537 mobile sites.

Entertainment/Life Style/Fashion and Style

Aritzia Mobile Site

aritzia.com m.aritzia.com Mobile site of Vancouver based young women’s clothing retailer Aritzia.  It’s a slick looking site designed by Mobify.me and featuring fashion photos, runway and interview videos and a store locator.
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News

Indian Country Today www.indiancountrytoday.com/mobile Mobile edition of Indian Country Today an award-winning weekly newspaper with news, information, and imagery relevant to the Indigenous people of the Americas. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Search/Local

Browzit – ZA Business mobile.browzit.co.za Search for businesses in South Africa.  Listings include description, click to call phone number, a form to send an email to the business and a link to the business’  non-mobile website.  Curiously, the listings do not include addresses! Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Travel-Transit/Air

FlightView mobile.flightview.com Track commercial flights in North America on your mobile device. FlightView shows departure and arrival times and live flight status maps.
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Technology/Tech News

TechFlash www.techflash.com/mobile TechFlash, published by the Puget Sound Business Journal,  bills itself as “Seattle’s Technology News Source” and covers the tech beat with special emphasis on Pacific Northwest companies. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Portals/WAP

Freomob Mobile Portal

Freomob.mobi www.freomob.mobi Free mobile fun stuff including jokes, quizes, tarot card reference, txt talk dictionary, horoscopes, wallpapers, and a small mobile site directory
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Technology/Mobile/MobileTech

tinySrc.mobi tinysrc.mobi A free web service that resizes images on the fly for mobile publishers and designers. Just specify the src in you image tags like this:
http://i.tinysrc.mobi/width/height/http://mysite.com/myimage.png
And tinySrc.mobi resizes myimage.png to the specified width and height
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Technology/Mobile/News – Reviews

JAMM justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress Just Another Mobile Monday (JAMM) is a blog offering tips and tricks for getting the most out of mobile devices and software.  JAMM also covers the mobile industry with news, reviews and opinions.
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Technology/Mobile/Mobile Social

foursquare m.playfoursquare.com/ Foursquare is the reincarnation, by the original founders, of Dodgeball the “tell us where you are and we’ll tell your friends where to find you” social network that was acquired by Google and then killed.

You can “check-in” with an iPhone app, your phone’s mobile browser or by sending a text message.
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my Wauwee wauwee.com/ Wauwee is a new social network based around photo sharing and chat rooms which is targeting India, the Middle East and Africa. If you have trouble logging in with your username, try entering the email or phone number you registered with in the name field.
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airG airg.com/ Vancouver based AirG, which up to now has only been available on-portal under names like CoolChat and Hookt is now open to everyone.  Chat, play wap games and share photos and videos with over 20 million AirG members. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Technology/Mobile/Downloads

DeviceDownloads www.devicedownloads.com/ Big collection of free windows mobile apps.  Games, Multimedia and Utilities.
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Technology/Mobile/Smartphones/Symbian

Symbian-Guru Mobile Homepage

Symbian-Guru www.symbian-guru.com/ A great news and tech blog for Symbian users.  It’s frequenty updated with news, reviews and tips for getting the most out of your Symbian phone.
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ZOMG its Cj zomgitscj.com/ Nokia and Symbian news, reviews and tips from frequent DarlaMack.com contribtor Clinton Jeff.
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Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio

Blubrry m.blubrry.com/ Searchable directory of downlaable .mp3 podcasts. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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HTCradio www.htcradio.com/ Directory of  over 1600 streaming radio stations in Windows Mobile compatible formats. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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MobTuner www.mobtuner.com/ Sister site to HTCradio, MobTuner isa directory of over 1600 mobile radio streams in mp3 format compatible with most phones.
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ScanAmerica mobile.scanamerica.us/ Listen to live audio streams from hundreds of U.S. police and fire dispatch radios. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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News/US Local by State/Colorado – Florida

Norwalk CT Citizen m.norwalkcitizen-news.com/ Basic text-only mobile site from the Norwalk Connecticut Citizen has about a dozen full length items from the paper’s News, Local and Sports sections plus the local weather forecast. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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New Canaan CT NewsReview m.newcanaannews-review.com The mobile version of the Hearst ownered New Canaan, Connecticut News-Review carries about 20 full-length, text-only items from the Local News, Sports, and Editorials sections along with several columists and the local weather. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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News/US Local by State/Georgia – Indiana

WISE-TV Ft Wayne IN www.indianasnewscenter.com/mobile Extensive coverage of news, business; health; entertainment; technology; weather with live radar; traffic; and pro, college and high school sports plus contests and streaming news video in windows media format from Ft Wayne Indiana’s NBC affiliate WISE-TV Channel 33.  Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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News/US Local by State/Iowa – Michigan

WBOC TV16 – Salisbury, MD mobile.wboc.com Content and feature rich news site from Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula which includes Salisbury, Dover and Milton MD. The site has news with photos and streaming Windows Mobile video, weather, sports, traffic, flight tracking and airport delays, horoscopes, lottery results and a lowest gas price tracker. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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News/US Local by State/New Mexico – ND

Jamestown ND Sun www.jamestownsun.com/m/ Local news, sports, weather and classified ads from the Jamestown North Dakota Sun. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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News/US Local by State/Minnesota -New Jersey

Cloquet MN Pine Journal www.pinejournal.com/m/ Cloquet, Minnesota’s Pine Journal’s mobile site carries local news, sports, weather and classifieds. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Travel-Transit/Destination Guides

ozmobi.mobi www.ozmobi.mobi/ Visitors guide to Australia with information and pictures of cities, states and attractions, click to call numbers for tourist information centers and a directory of businesses. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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Travel-Transit/Destination Guides

Nevada Tourism Mobile Site

Nevada Tourism nv.mobi/ The official Mobile Web site of the Nevada Commission on Tourism is a visitors guide which lists events, things to, hotels and RV parks and a six day weather foecast.  The site has the look of an iPhone web app but page sizes are generally under 20 KB and the site seems works well even on feature phones. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
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Reference/Health

CalorieKing www.calorieking.com/mobile/ We all need to watch what we eat, especially the calories and carbohydrates.  CalorieKing is an easy to use mobile site where you can check the calories, carbs, fat, protein and fiber of over 50,000 food items
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Technology

EETimes mobile.eetimes.com/ Mobile edition of EE Times, a trade magazine covering the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries.
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Shopping

Walgreens www.walgreens.com/mobile/ This mobile sile from U.S. drugstore chain, Walgreens  lets y0u order perscription refills and find the nearest store location. Source Oh! Mobile Directory
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