Carnival of the Mobilists 91

First time host Tim Trent at Marketing By Permission has done  great job of putting together the latest Carnival of the Mobilists.  The Carnival is a great source for fresh information and new ideas in all areas of mobile technololgy and business. Whether you’re interested in the looming struggle between Nokia and Apple, the political fight over open access here in the US, the Chinese mobile landscape, reviews of the latest devices or just want to relax with a mobile … Continue reading

How to Read eBooks on Almost Any Phone

Read an eBook on my mobile phone? I’ll admit I was skeptical at first. Although I’ve been reading books on a Palm OS PDA for years it has a relatively large 3 inch screen. I thought downgrading to the mobile’s 1.9″ screen would make reading impossibly painful. I quickly discovered that I was wrong. I found that I could read just as fast and with as much enjoyment on the smaller screen as with the PDA or even a printed … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists #90

Matthew Miller at The Mobile Gadgeteer is hosting the Carnival this week. As frequently happens, this Carnival has introduced me to another great new mobile themed blog. I’ll be reading The Mobile Gadgeteer regularly from now on. It’s a great site for keeping up with the latest handset releases  with hardware reviews, gossip and great product imagery The Carnival continues with it’s usual high standards in presenting the best recent writing on mobile topics. Improving the mobile user experience is … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web 23

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 and directory and portal now list 922 mobile sites. Entertainment/TV MTV: (wap.mtv.com) Music TV has a mobile site. Content consists of entertainment news, photos and entertainer interviews – and a Brittney Spears video. But the video is served in an embedded Flash player. It’s not Flash Lite, this is … Continue reading

Mobile Usability Tips #1 – Registration and Login

This is the first in a series of tips on enhancing the usability of mobile websites. I’m beginning with user registration and login. But first a quiz, can you spot three mobile usability problems with the Facebook login screen in the image? The answers are at the bottom of this post. Most web services require new users to register. This practice has been carried over to the mobile web. Unfortunately registering typically requires quite a bit of typing – something … Continue reading

Small Gotcha with the New Mini Beta

Opera Mini is the best mobile browser – period. I’ve been using it daily for a year and a half. Even comparing Mini with smartphone browsers like Netfront, Webkit or Opera Mobile, I prefer Mini. It loads pages faster on a slow connection, renders images quickly and beautifully and has an extremely well thought out user interface, Opera released a second beta of the next generation of Opera Mini last week. It launched two new features; custom search and landscape … Continue reading

Carnival of the Mobilists 89

Welcome to the eighty-ninth edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, a weekly showcase of the best recent mobile phone related posts from around the blogosphere. Here in the US it’s Labor Day, a national holiday celebrating workers and the labor movement. It seems fitting that we are taking the day to celebrate the labor of love that mobile bloggers put into their posts every day. New Products and Technologies: The past week has seen a slew of new product … Continue reading

Opera Mini 4 Beta 2

First impressions of Opera’s latest Mini Beta are mostly positive for me. The new release contains two major new features, landscape mode and multiple, customizable search. There are some nice usability enhancements plus hundreds of bug fixes including a promised permanent fix to Beta 1’s biggest bugs, disappearing cookies and the broken web forms that plagued Beta One on some sites. Landscape mode is the marquee feature for Beta Two. It’s pretty neat, pressing * then # instantly rotates the … Continue reading