{"id":2494,"date":"2009-01-08T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2009-01-08T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:50:05","slug":"here-and-now-nokias-new-mobile-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/2494\/","title":{"rendered":"Here and Now, Nokia’s New Mobile Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NokiaNokia launched a new mobile site yesterday called “Here and Now<\/em><\/strong>“. It’s a mobile portal emphasizing music news and movie reviews from Rolling Stone and also featuring news from Reuters,\u00a0 gossip from US Weekly, game and\u00a0 application downloads, videos and a small directory of 3rd party mobile websites.\u00a0 Nokia claims Here and Now<\/em> is targeted at 18 to 35 year olds.\u00a0 That’s OK by me if it keeps the marketing pros at Nokia employed but I really don’t see how\u00a0 interest in music, news, sports, celebrities and games is unique to any one age group.<\/p>\n

\"NokiaI’m definitely not in the target demographic\u00a0 but I did find “Here and Now<\/em>” a nice little portal. The easiest way to get to it is to start at nokia.mobi<\/a> and click the big Here and Now banner. The direct url is nokia.mobi\/hereandnow<\/a> which redirects to\u00a0 nokia.12dld.mobi\/zone\/index.do<\/a>.\u00a0 The 12dld.mobi domain belongs to Germany’s 12snap<\/a> who apparently created Here and Now for Nokia and are hosting it as well.<\/p>\n

Here and Now<\/em> looks great in WebKit on my N95 (1st image).\u00a0 In other browsers, including Opera Mini, it degrades to a rather bland wml version (2nd image),\u00a0 Nokia or rather 12snap, even tries to send wml to Skyfire which doesn’t support it and prompts you to download index.do!\u00a0\u00a0 You would think\u00a0 that 12snap would check Accept headers before blindly sending wml to unrecognized devices. I guess\u00a0 someone decided that Here and Now<\/em> really only needed to support the default Nokia browsers. “Not Invented Here<\/a>” syndrome lives.<\/p>\n

Filed in<\/em>: Wap Review Directory – Portals
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Ratings:<\/em> Content: \"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"_\" Usability: \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"_\"\"_\"<\/p>\n

Mobile Link<\/em><\/span>:\u00a0nokia.mobi\/hereandnow<\/a><\/p>\n

Ready.mobi Score:<\/em> 5 “Good”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nokia launched a new mobile site yesterday called “Here and Now“. It’s a mobile portal emphasizing music news and movie reviews from Rolling Stone and also featuring news from Reuters,\u00a0 gossip from US Weekly, game and\u00a0 application downloads, videos and a small directory of 3rd party mobile websites.\u00a0 Nokia claims Here and Now is targeted at 18 to 35 year olds.\u00a0 That’s OK by me if it keeps the marketing pros at Nokia employed but I really don’t see how\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[538,148,1428,201,539,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}