Mobile options: some links and reflections
Several things to play with and check out …
- My Yahoo! mobile (old news! — March '05): see here.
It's a nice stake in the ground for Yahoo! to demonstrate that they're taking mobile seriously, but practically speaking how many high-end Series 60-owning folks make use of so many Yahoo! services, want to use them when they're mobile, and want to pay for the privilege? We're back to the standard mobile problem of reach vs functionality, and this app is firmly wedged up at the functionality end of that curve. I'd be more impressed by a set of (perhaps simpler) apps which tease a significant chunk of Yahoo!s UK audience away from their desktops and onto their phones. … Christian's comment that the app will be preloaded onto S60 handsets is *very* interesting though... handset vendors and Yahoo joining forces to take on carriers? Hmm...
- via Robert, a tip about MSN Mobile Search:
MSN has a neat little search feature that lets you look at a Web site reformatted specifically for viewing on a phone. Just go to MSN Mobile Search, put in the site’s URL that you want to visit, and click “mobile” next to the result.
- And from the comments on Robert's post, a Google site which will strip out graphics on demand.
This is in addition to Google Mobile and Gmail Mobile (which I've been trying for a few weeks now).
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