Archive for August, 2007

Top 20 sites to use on your mobile phone

August 15, 2007 at 3:25 pm · Filed under Mobile Internet

There are tons of useful websites out there that are compatible with mobile internet browsers, but relatively few people at present use these sites.

See the best the mobile web has to offer below, rated by usefulness, detection of mobile browsers, and usability…

  1. m.google.com – the King of them all, clearly, and the best mobile (beta) search currently available for phones. The portal to the not just the normal web, but the mobile world too, as validated by its inclusion in almost every phone network’s default homepage.
  2. bbc.co.uk/mobile – News, sport, weather, traffic, TV, radio, learning – just about everything you could want from the BBC.
  3. google.com/gmm – The Java application that you can download to make better use of Google’s fantastic maps service when you’re on the move. Still missing some potentially useful features, but head and shoulders above any similar service. And it’s free.
  4. gmail.com/app – a fantastic mail application built in Java and stripped down to the bare basics, but at the same time with almost all of the email features you could possibly want in the palm of your hand.
  5. facebook.com -the immensely popular social networking site automatically adjusts its layout for most mobile phone browsers.
  6. m.wordpress.com – a very neat and simple way to blog when you’re on the move.
  7. m.box.net – fantastic, intuitive web 2.0 online storage solution that gives a 1GB account free, has a mobile web interface so you can upload/download files from or to your phone!
  8. m.gmail.com – not quite as fast or handy as the Java application, but still a good port of email into the WAP world.
  9. calendar.google.com – still missing a Java applet, Google’s online Calendar works well on a reasonably sized phone screen, but is let down slightly by the long URL, which isn’t very mobile-friendly. This has the potential to be great if and when a Java application is released. Read the rest of this entry »

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Coolnewmobile not so cool…

August 9, 2007 at 4:52 pm · Filed under Mobile Phones

What follows is a genuine ordering experience from the online phone retailer Coolnewmobile (owned by Mobile Affiliates Ltd):

  • An order was placed on 31 July 2007 for a Nokia N72 on Vodafone with a 12 month free line rental deal.
  • Delivery was supposedly next-day, however no further information was sent after the order confirmation email.
  • Two days later, 1 hour was spent on the phone trying to contact customer service – the customer was bounced around several different departments until they were told their order number didn’t exist and they wouldn’t be receiving the phone, even though their card had been charged £2.50.
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