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to: Glenn Meadows
from: Randall Parker
date: 2007-05-20 09:03:10
subject: Re: Cellphones as app development platform for web and other purposes?

From: Randall Parker 

Glenn Meadows wrote:

>
>> 2) Do you ever surf the web with your cellphone?
>
> With my Blackberry, yes.  Go to sites using the .mobi extension.  Popular
> sites (ESPN, CNN, etc all have special versions intended for mobile phones
> and browsers. www.espn.go.mobi.  www.foxnews.mobi.  www.cnn.mobi.  All work
> well, and if your provider has a high-speed network, are mostly text only,
> formatted for small screens.  I'm on T-Mobile with my BB, on their Edge
> network.  Website load in about 4-6 seconds, not bad.  Probably a bit faster
> than the old 9600 bps modems days .

So  then is there a way to click on links?

I'm wondering if I should support a mobile version of my FuturePundit.com website.
The amount of text viewable seems so small that I wonder whether anyone would use
that way of viewing the site.

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