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Sites designed for mobile phones?

hartti | 22 June, 2007 21:17

Bango has apparently set up a service, which checks if a site is mobile phone friendly. They are using a rating from 0 ("This site is not designed for mobile phones.") to 5 ("This site is designed for most mobile devices."). However I have no idea what these numbers really mean and what features the service is checking.

An email in the MobileMonday mailing list mentioned that this checking has something to do if the pages should not be "transcoded" and that 'the pages delivered are inspected to see if they have been adapted or if they are just "plain old html".'  I guess this means that if the phone has a powerful Web browser like the S60 3rd Edition devices or iPhone, the numbers from this service are not really relevant. They matter if the phone has a WAP browser only.

Not surprisingly many of the mobile service sites rate pretty well (getting 3-5 out of 5). However without knowing what the service is really checking it is hard to tell how useful this service is. Any more infornation, anyone?

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Re: Sites designed for mobile phones?

biskero | 22/06/2007, 23:47

biskero Ciao Hartti,

I use this other service to check mobile friendly site:
http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN

Alessandro

Re: Sites designed for mobile phones?

widianuser | 22/06/2007, 23:50

Hi,

Don't know much about Bango's site but I have used .mobi's similar test tool at http://ready.mobi

Good thing about .mobi test is that it gives a very good report and failed test cases are easy to spot. After a quick test it also seems that Bango's test is not as strict as .mobi test.

Re: Sites designed for mobile phones?

hartti | 23/06/2007, 01:12

hartti Thanks Alessandro and Harri, again it it is true that the people reading one's writings know much more than one does.

Nice to see that the ready.mobi site provides much more information about the page in question. Also there are some differences in grading. shozu got the highest marks in bango's ratings but scored really bad with ready.mobi. However m.google.com got 5 points in ready.mobi but only 3 out of 5 on bango.
hmm....

Hartti

Re: Sites designed for mobile phones?

jaesonaras | 23/06/2007, 05:45

Apologies for being slightly offtopic. Having tested browsers in very many different mobiles, I've noticed that almost every mobile browser has differences that make browsing inconsistent. I've since installed Opera mini, and now pages seem to be very consistent across all the mobiles. Also, I'm believe that pages not designed for mobiles are compressed and "massaged" into a friendlier layout. Worth checking out, IMO.

Re: Sites designed for mobile phones?

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