Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Great sites for mobile phone surfing

From Mequoda

  • Computerworld - (http://mobile.computerworld.com) - Not only do they offer a clean uncluttered look, but if you go to their search engine you'll find an ad for their freemium. Just hand over your email address and they'll send you a link for the case study. Bravo Computerworld.
  • Facebook - (http://m.facebook.com)- Facebooks mobile interface is by far in the lead in terms of functionality. Usability experts and users alike constantly praise it. Every aspect of the website was well thought out in order to make all tasks easy to complete, view, and search.. with serious bandwidth optimization.
  • PC Magazine (http://mobile.pcmag.com): Complete with ads, font-sizing buttons and a sleek design, PC Magazine's mobile site is one of the best.
  • MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com): Automatically detected by your mobile device, and easy to use. No clicking "next", just everything you want and need right away. A very intelligently designed mobile site.
  • Forbes - (http://mobile.forbes.com) - Easy to look up quotes from the main screen and access all articles. Complete with external advertising as well as internal ads embedded in articles for users to subscribe to Forbes' mobile alerts.
  • Car and Driver - (http://m.caranddriver.com) - Perfectly balanced text and graphics that show up with ease and works on a huge variety of handsets.
  • The New York Times (http://mobile.nytimes.com): The site wouldn't be used to do any kind of research, but if you're just looking to read the latest stories, it's adequate and easy to use. It even offers social functions like the ability to email the story.
  • Internet Movie Database (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com): IMDb is one of those websites that NEEDS a mobile presence, and movie fans are very happy with their mobile edition that self-detects.
  • Google - (http://www.google.com/m) - Even with an easy to use interface, users still like optimized websites, especially search engines. The mobile Google homepage has no ads unlike the Yahoo! Mobile optimized homepage.
  • Amazon Mobile - (http://m.amazon.com)- Very basic and optimized for the user already with an Amazon account, but it's quick to load and easy to browse. The drawback is that you can't see user comments, which is not in our favor, but likely in theirs.
  • Marie Claire (http://m.marieclaire.com): It's simplistic design is perfect for mobile, which identifies categories first, then headlines, and then dives into the tip.
  • Time (http://mobile.time.com): Time doesn't offer all of its content for mobile, but what it does offer is complete and lengthy, if that's what you're looking for.
  • Wapedia (Mobile Wikipedia) - (http://wapedia.mobi) - Think mobile Wikipedia. Wikipedia does have it's own lightweight version, but it was created by a 3rd party and is not as widely used or