{"id":1538,"date":"2008-10-17T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2020-12-12T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:44:18","slug":"boy-genius-report-mobile-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/1538\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Genius Report Mobile Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BoyThe anonymous blogger known as the “Boy Genius” or BG is famous for publishing scoops about future gadgets and mobile products. A lot of\u00a0 BG’s scoops involve leaked documents, photos and sometimes complete reviews of devices the BG has somehow managed to get his hands on months before there official release. Among the more notable BG scoops, he was the first to reveal the Blackberry Pearl<\/span> with pictures and video before anyone had so much published a rumor about a trackball equipped Blackberry.\u00a0 Then there was the BG’s leak of the\u00a0 Blackberry Clamshell<\/a>, which Seeking Alpha<\/a> claimed caused Blackberry’s stock price to jump 5%.\u00a0 Recently, BG published a\u00a0 full review of the Nokia E71<\/a> with pictures and video three weeks before the phone was even announced.\u00a0 I especially enjoyed BG’s leaks of\u00a0 Verizon’s “iPhone 3G Myths<\/a>” internal sales document and AT&T’s counterpoint telling sales folks how to pitch the iPhone’s superiority over Verizon’s Blackberry Storm<\/a>.\u00a0 Great stuff, I don’t know how the BG does it but I can’t get enough of it.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of things I don’t know about the BG like what’s his name?, is he really a minor?, where does he get his information?\u00a0 Add one more, until yesterday, I didn’t realize that there was a mobile web version of the Boy Genius Report. When I was looking for Android Reviews I happened to hit the BG’s site with Firefox’s User Agent Switcher Extension<\/a> set to impersonate some handset and there it was, Boy Genius Mobile<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It was launched Sept. 14th according to this BG post<\/a> and uses a modified version of Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition<\/a>. Browser detection is used to deliver a mobile formatted version to recognized handsets visiting any page on the boygeniusreport.com domain.\u00a0 You can force the mobile version in a desktop browser or unrecognized mobile by going to boygeniusreport.com\/wp-admin\/options-general.php?ak_action=accept_mobile<\/code>.<\/p>\n

The Alex King plugin delivers a “PDA” formatted rather than a full mobile site.\u00a0 There’s no pagination and images aren’t re-sized so page size can get pretty large, over 100 KB including images.\u00a0 That’s not a problem for smartphones including Blackberries or even modern feature phones with one of the better mobile browsers (Nokia, Obigo or Netfront).\u00a0 But anyone sporting a device with a Motorola MIB or Openwave browser will definetely encounter some “out of memory errors” browsing BGR Mobile.\u00a0 If that happens to you, I highly recommend using Opera Mini<\/a> if possible.\u00a0 If you can’t use Mini\u00a0 you are probably on Verizon or another BREW carrier and you have my sympathy.\u00a0 Try using a transcoder like Google’s GWT<\/a>, Mowser<\/a> or Skweezer<\/a> to cut BGR Mobile down to size.<\/p>\n

Mobile Link<\/em>: boygeniusreport.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratings:<\/em> Content: \"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\" Usability: \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"_\"\"_\"<\/p>\n

Filed in: <\/em>Mobile Site Directory – Technology\/Mobile\/News – Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The anonymous blogger known as the “Boy Genius” or BG is famous for publishing scoops about future gadgets and mobile products. A lot of\u00a0 BG’s scoops involve leaked documents, photos and sometimes complete reviews of devices the BG has somehow managed to get his hands on months before there official release. Among the more notable BG scoops, he was the first to reveal the Blackberry Pearl with pictures and video before anyone had so much published a rumor about a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[387,148,388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22900,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/22900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}