Mobile Blog
An infrequent log of anything but not everything in my mobile world.
- Stop calling Safari on the iPhone a mobile browser!
- Docomo Home U and Softbank's missed opportunity
- Information versus Noise
- Docomo announces the 906 and 706 series mobiles
- Willcom 03
Stop calling Safari on the iPhone a mobile browser!
Can everyone please stop referring to Safari on the iPhone as a mobile browser because it has none of the capabilities of a mobile browser, OK.
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2008-06-06
Docomo Home U and Softbank's missed opportunity
Docomo has beaten Softbank on the fixed-mobile convergence front by announcing its Home U service which basically allows users to connect their mobile through wifi to access Docomo services and, most importantly, place VoIP calls.
This is hardly revolutionary but a big deal in a country with control freak carriers but I always thought Softbank would be the first to roll out this service: Softbank and its Yahoo! BB ISP already have an extensive broadband network in place using wifi routers and offering VoIP calls.
Softbank really dropped the ball on this one.
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2008-06-05
Information versus Noise
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2008-05-28
Docomo announces the 906 and 706 series mobiles
It's that crazy time of the year when the big three start rolling out summer mobiles and Docomo kicks it off announcing no less than 19 mobiles making up the 906 and 706 series.
Apart from the usual incremental increase in specs over the 905 and 705 series, the most interesting new feature is an expanded full browser with Windows Media Video and Flash 8 support. I'm not sure how well desktop Flash navigation will translate to a mobile browser but with already impressive AJAX capabilities in the 905 full browsers, Docomo is stepping up to the competition from Apple's Webkit and Opera Mobile.
Docomo's 906 series...
...and 706 series
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2008-05-27
Having great feature like expanded full browser with windows media videos and Flash 8 support.The colors are awesome.
yang 2008-05-28
Thanks, Docomo announces very nice series... i like it...
2008-06-05
Willcom 03
The forthcoming Willcom 03 
Windows mobile is kinda cool: it has a touch screen that switches between cursor and keypad modes, one seg digital TV, Opera Mobile 9.5 and most importantly, comes in pink.
Expect this one to hit shelves sometime in June.
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2008-05-27
Thanks, Docomo announces series... i like it...and ur collection is gr8..keep it up..
2008-06-26
Hmm, could you elaborate? I guess even calling it a "portable browser" would be too far off. No personal experience with iPhone and limited with Safari. I rather use Firefox, non mobile.
A mobile browser should:
1. Have the ability to reformat content to a screens width: having to scroll sideways is just as obnoxious on a mobile as on a desktop browser. The iPhone cannot do this.
2. Mobile browsers should follow the "handheld" CSS media standard. Allowing the user to toggle between "handheld" and "screen" is even better but the iPhone ignores all handheld CSS.
Safari is a great browser but it's not a mobile browser and is less useable on the iPhone because of this.