{"id":7215,"date":"2010-06-21T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2010-06-21T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:04:49","slug":"found-on-the-mobile-web-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/7215\/","title":{"rendered":"Found on the Mobile Web #220"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GoComics<\/p>\n

Found on the Mobile Web<\/em> is a weekly WAP Review<\/em> feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com<\/a> mobile portal and WapReview<\/a> mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2263 mobile sites.<\/p>\n

Comics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

GoComics<\/em><\/strong> www.gocomics.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Hundreds of popular newspaper comic strips including Doonesbury, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbs as well as editorial comics from Pat Oliphant, Dan Wasserman and others plus a large selection of comics en Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n

Both current and previous days strips are available. The site is designed for the iPhone and other smartphones with large screens\u00a0 The strips are too small to read in the N95’s Nokia browser but work well in Opera Mini which lets you the images in their original sizes. Source<\/em>: Taptu Touch Web Report<\/a> (PDF)
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\"DART<\/p>\n

Transit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dallas – DART<\/em><\/strong> m.dart.org<\/a> Real time arrivals, interactive point to point schedules and rider alerts for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system’s bus, light rail and commuter rail services.
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Reference
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Urban Dict<\/em><\/strong> www.urbandictionary.com\/iphone<\/a> Look up crowd sourced definitions of slang words and phrases with this version of the Urban Dictionary designed for the iPhone and other touch smartphones. Javascript dependencies and page sizes over 200 KB make the site unusable on feature phones.
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\"TitanTV<\/p>\n

TV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

TitanTV<\/em><\/strong> m.titantv.com<\/a> Television program listing and guide. The program grids are well designed and look good on most phones.<\/p>\n

However the mobile version of TitanTV isn’t usable without a PC as it requires an account that can only be set up on the desktop site at www.titantv.com. Even after you have an account you can’t change the listings to a different city or timezone without using the desktop site.<\/p>\n

Mobile sites that require you to use a PC to setup effectively discourage anyone who discovers the site while browsing on the phone from using it. Not to mention that there are many mobile web users who don’t have a computer.
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\"HeatWorld<\/p>\n

Gossip<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heatworld<\/em><\/strong> m.heatworld.com<\/a> Online mobile edition of UK based Heat <\/em>magazine, a celebrity, entertainment and gossip print weekly. The mobile site includes lots of celeb photos and trivia contests with DVDs and gadgets as prizes. Source<\/em>: Taptu<\/em> Touch Web Report.
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Social Networking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Grid<\/em><\/strong> onthegrid.mobi<\/a> A location based mobile social network featuring Twitter integration, media sharing, chat rooms, messaging and user reviews of places and things.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2007, The Grid<\/em> is now one of the top 10 mobile sites in South Africa according to Nielsen<\/a>. In addition to the mobile site, The Grid also offers a Java ME app, desktop site and a Facebook app. Click here<\/a> to watch a slick video demo of\u00a0 The Grid.
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Translation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Google<\/p>\n

Google Translate<\/em><\/strong> translate.google.com\/m\/translate<\/a> Mobile interface for Google Translate. Instant translations between over 50 language pairs with auto-detection of the input language.
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Apple<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

ModMyi Forums<\/em><\/strong> modmyi.com<\/a> Apple, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad user forum with an emphasis on modding, hacking and jail-breaking Apple’s mobile products.<\/p>\n

Built using ElForro’s iPhone skin for vBulletin<\/a>, the site works well in the iPhone, Android and WebOS browsers and is usable with Opera Mini, Bolt and the Symbian 3rd and 5th edition browsers. Pages average 100 KB in size and JavaScript is required in order to open navigation links.
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Fashion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Hong<\/p>\n

Hong Kong Fashion Geek<\/em><\/strong> m.hkfashiongeek.com<\/a> Self styled fashion geeks,Virginia Ngai and Christina Ko’s, Hong Kong-based blog.\u00a0 Covers fashion, food, consumer gadgets, design and what’s hot now in Hong Kong including the best dinning deals and latest restaurant and bar openings. Mobile view is by Mobify<\/a>.
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Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

TweetGo<\/em><\/strong> www.tweetgo.net<\/a> A new “touch web” optimized Twitter client. While I like the attractive dark theme, on my Android phones (Sapphire and Evo) text doesn’t wrap properly and horizontal scrolling is required unless I zoom out to a point where the text is unreadably tiny. This even happens on the Evo’s 480 px wide screen! I’m guessing that TweetGo only works well on the iPhone.
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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 2263 mobile sites. Comics GoComics www.gocomics.com Hundreds of popular newspaper comic strips including Doonesbury, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbs as well as editorial comics from Pat Oliphant, Dan Wasserman and others plus a large selection of comics en Espa\u00f1ol. Both current and previous … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[1395,925,228,141,1443,1424,139,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215"}],"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=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}