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Mobile Phone Web Site: Cell Browsing

Posted April 23rd, 2008 by chrishambly
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I've (as in my web development company) just finished a BETA mobile site for my client SAE.

I'm not sure about you but I find myself more and more using my smart phone for staying "connected" when out and about. I have a Nokia e61 which is basically my mobile computer, in fact I very rarely use it as a phone in the traditional sense, I have a another device for that.

The main sites I use on my phone are Twitter, Gmail and Facebook. Armed with those three sites I can cover most of my day to day communication addiction needs.

Now and again I might pop into YouTube (really cool service) for a distraction and often I'll sneak a look at BBC too, actually as I start to think about it I use more than the initial three sites I mentioned.

What is interesting though is that there are a staggering amount of web sites without an optimised mobile version for us "out and about" type people. Just try your favourites on your phone and see what utter nonsense comes up, you'll be surprised.

If you find some good sites please list them out below in a comment, oh and also have a look at my client mobile site, let me know if it works or not on your phone?

Point your phone here: http://m.sae.edu

Appreciate it.

P.S. you can screen shot and add html in the comments.


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Windows Mobile 6 Pro (IE 6 Mobile)

On April 23rd, 2008 Gary Day (not verified) says:

View from an HTC Tytn II:

Windows Mobile 6 Pro IE 6 Mobile

Windows Mobile 6 Pro (IE 6 Mobile)
Looks fine to me fella.

Not cacheable

On April 23rd, 2008 Benjie Gillam (not verified) says:

Works same on my Nokia 6120 (Symbian S60v3fp1) as in firefox. The only major issue is that the images are not marked as cachable in the headers. Which means they are loaded again on each and every page load which makes a hell of a difference to the page load times (and also to my network usage!). Same goes for the CSS. You should add the "Expires" header at least.

iPhone

On April 23rd, 2008 Tao (not verified) says:

Looks great on the iPhone too.
The layout is the same as the above shot from WM, but the screen res of the iPhone makes it look slightly wider - thats all.

mobile internet on my phone

On April 23rd, 2008 tim hoang (not verified) says:

I've got a slidy hutchison phone with full qwerty keyboard (not sure of make) and it works fine on mine. I don't really like using the web on my phone - too awkward though i wouldn't mind trying it out on an iPhone. 02?

Mobile site

On April 23rd, 2008 Pauline Randall (not verified) says:

I've got an HTC 750 Smartphone and the site looks great either way - image goes landscape when the keyboard comes out. Running Windows Mobile 6.

Mobile site: http://m.sae.edu

On April 23rd, 2008 Unknown Agent (not verified) says:

Hi Chris,

The site works fine on my MDA, loads pretty fast as well. The logo at the top takes up 1/3 of my screen by the way, all text is underneath it so a lot of useless scrolling.

Another thing is that te article is a lot of text, without breaks of separators etc. so it is not easy to read.

Greetings,

Marc
www.twitter.com/vanmaanen

Mobile browsing

On April 23rd, 2008 CJ - pcmcreative (not verified) says:

I'm in the process of updating my site but some resourses I use with clients you may find useful.

There's a "Going Mobile" section I am developing and I also make sure I design a specific CSS file for mobile devices with all my sites. On the site so far there are links to Mippin, Widsets ans ScanR.

Including keyboard accessibility key cuts to sites is beneficial to mobile sites as much as for accessibility compliance. My client Pure Tranquillity is very happy with how her site fits on to her mobile PDA. She uses it a lot at networking events. Designers and actors like this facility too as they can take their web site on tour with them or refer to it during interviews and auditions. And if you are cunning you can show your site on a potential clients devise and bookmark it to their phone!

mobile web

On April 23rd, 2008 Chris Reed (not verified) says:

Looks fine to me on my n73 running nokia's browser.

And check out Steven Davies' list of decent mobile news sites

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