Found On The Mobile Web #199

BC Ferries Mobile View

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 2118 mobile sites.

Travel-Transit/Transit

BC Ferries: mobile.bcferries.com A very slick site from BC Ferries, which provides vehicle and passenger ferry service between the mainland, Vancouver Island and other islands in British Columbia’s Gulf of Georgia. It features comprehensive schedules, dockside webcams, vessel tracking and live updates of vehicle load wait times and how full each upcoming departure is. The mobile view was created using Mobify.
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Travel-Transit

Kontax Mobile Short Stories

Streetcar – UK Car Rental m.streetcar.co.uk Streetcar is UK based rental firm offering cars and vans 24/7 for rent by the hour, day, week or month which you can pay for with a Streetcar smartcard. The mobile site lets you book vehicles, view, amend and delete bookings and contact Streetcar using click to call phone numbers or email.
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Entertainment/Literature

Kontax www.kontax.mobi Kontax is a serialized short story about the adventures of 4 teenagers that you can read on your cellphone. Register to comment on the story. Available in English or the South African language Xhosa.
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Travel-Transit/Hotels

Sol Melia - Mobile Hotel Booking

Sol Melia mobile.solmelia.com Find and book hotels and resorts. primarily in Spain with this well designed and usable site. Listings include description, list of amenities photos, street and email address. maps and direct to hotel click to call phone numbers.
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Travel-Transit/Destination Guides

Leucadia Mobile leucadia.mobi Guide to Leucadia, a neighborhood of Encinitas, California. Leucadia has a quaint, artsy shopping strip and is home of Beacons, a well known surfing spot. The mobile site has local weather, an events calendar, surf report and listings of local businesses and services. Source: Mobility.mobi
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Sports/Soccer

Everton FC wap.evertonfc.com The mobile site of the Everton Football Club in English Premier League features team news, free and paid ringtone, wallpaper and game downloads and an SM alert signup form. Source mobiThinking
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This Is Bristol - Mobile News

News/International/Europe

This Is Bristol www.thisisbristol.co.uk/mobile/home News, weather, sports and columnists from the mobile edition of the Bristol (England) Evening Post’s website.
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Search/Real Estate & Apartments

KB Home m.kbhome.com The mobile site of KB Home, a large US home builder, lets prospective buyers search homes for sale and view community information, prices, floor plans, driving directions, home photos and renderings.
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Mobile Weight Converter

Reference – Tools/Calculators – Converters

Weight Converter weightconverter.mobi Easy to use mobile web application to convert between units of weight including pounds, ounces, kg, stones, long tons and metric tons
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Mortgage Calculator 13rams.mobi Australia’s Rams Financial Group offers this handy loan repayment calculator to help you determine the monthly payment amount for mortgages or other loans. Source: mobiThinking.
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