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November 19, 2007

30 Best Websites for Your SmartPhone

The world has gone mobile. Everyone wants to access everything from their mobile phones. Most of the popular websites will be accessible from your smart phones by typing a http://m.NAME.com. Here we list of popular web applications and services that are already available for smart phones.

Social News sites such as Digg, Bloglines are available on mobile - but the contents and stories (individual sites and blogs) they point to may not be compatible with mobiles. So, you may need to wait until, most of them becomes mobile friendly.

You can test your blog/site to see how they might look like in a mobile. You can choose one of the Nokia N70, Sony Ericsson K750i, Motorola, Sharp or Samsung skins.




http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php



You will get a detailed report on how to improve your site here.
http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp

There are whole heaps of .mobi websites springing up. So, in doubt try http://NAME.mobi or http://m.NAME.com. Replace NAME with DIGG or GMAIL or YAHOO


Tappity is a site where users submit, vote for mobile and pda friendly websites. It is a great site to check out often.

1.Access Digg Stories

http://diggriver.com/

2. Facebooking on Mobile

http://m.facebook.com/

3. Windows Live



http://mobile.live.com

http://mobile.msn.com

4. Google Mail



http://m.gmail.com

This is also a cool hack to access google mail from a slow internet connection or behind a firewall. Type in http://m.gmail.com to get the plain text version of your gmail inbox.

5. Watch Youtube Videos



http://m.youtube.com

6. Flickr Photos


http://m.flickr.com

7. Follow eBay items


http://m.ebay.com

8. Blogger from Mobile


http://go.blogger.com

First visit to set a blog for mobile publishing. you can send a text or MMS to go@blogger.com to publish content to that blog) Send HELP to 256447 (BLOGGR)to know more.

9. Read Feeds/News

http://www.google.com/reader/m

If you are a bloglines fan, just type in http://www.bloglines.com/mobile

www.google.com/mobile/news/ for google news headlines and snippets

10. Wikipedia on the Move



http://wapedia.mobi/en/

11. Banking with mobile

http://pc.banking.mobi/

12. Delicious bookmarks


http://mobilicio.us/

13. Twitter on the Run

http://m.twitter.com/

14. Technorati blogosphere



http://m.technorati.com/

15. Yahoo on Mobile



http://mobile.yahoo.com

Or type http://m.yahoo.com

Country specific sites are available too
Yahoo Australia
http://au.mobile.yahoo.com

Yahoo India
http://in.mobile.yahoo.com

16.SlashDot - News for Nerds

http://slashdot.org/palm

17. The NewYork Times on Mobile

http://mobile.nytimes.com

18. BBC on Mobile

http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm

19. Anywhere Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aa.html/

Now, you can check into a local store and compare Amazon price before you buy. Or show your shopkeeper that you will buy a product from mobile.

20. Check out Movies - IMDB

http://206.130.125.89/mobile.php?UMPG=index

21. cNET Tech news and reviews



http://m.news.com

22. Weather on the Go



http://wireless.weather.com/palmportal/index.html

23. Sports Headlines



http://mobile.sportingnews.com/

ESPN



http://espn.mobi

FOX Sports



http://www.foxsports.com/wireless


24. Refer Oxford Dictionary

http://www.askoxford.com/avantgo/

25. Joke a Day

http://www.jokeaday.com/palmindex.shtml

26. The Good, Clean Funnies Lists

http://www.gcfl.net/avantgo/mobile.php

27. The Onion - America's Finest News

http://mobile.theonion.com/content/index

28. TV Guide on Mobile

http://wireless.tvguide.com/(S(cs4gpii00dl1xi55oy4gsb45))/index.aspx

29.Dodgeball- See your friends more



http://www.dodgeball.com/mobile

30. Washington Post

http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/

31. Bars on Mobile - US, UK and Canada only


http://bars.mobi

32. dLook - Smartest Australian Business Directory



http://dlook.mobi/ - Search Australian Business Listings

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7 comments:

Meg said...

Hey Thiru

How could you forget http://dlook.mobi for all your local Australian business search needs ;)

(sorry couldn't resist shameless plug)

Tom Cruse said...

The one you missed is the #1 Mobile Directory.

http://find1.mobi

Meg said...

Thank you :) Nice collection of links, by the way!

iHate PCs said...

Great list, personally I don't think you left anything out!

DSA said...

I really like usatoday mobile m.usatoday.com. I'd add it to the list.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps you also should look at:

http://www.todaypda.com/

It has a huge database with streams which get's checked every two weeks. Lot's of television, radio and webcam!

I use it myself a lot.

Kind regards,

Ellen

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I got a lot from it.
Regards,
El