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Good web sites, and those to avoid, using mobile Internet access

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    Good web sites, and those to avoid, using mobile Internet access

    Now Internet is enabled on my brand spanking new mobby, I am wondering what sites are best for things like news and weather, and sites I should avoid.

    Given the stringent "fair use" limits, obviously the main reason to avoid a site is if it shovels out megabytes of carp (Flash video ads for example) per page or periodic sneaky Ajax updates.

    Any ideas? How is CUK for a mobile client for example?
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    #2
    CUK displays awful on my Nokia E72. My main problem is that you can't read the titles of posts before opening them since you only get the first 2 or 3 words.

    I downloaded Opera Mini (or is it Opera Mobile?) and this helped with the display problems, but now I get all kinds of 'out of memory' issues. Opera loads the non-mobile versions of websites with all of the bulky flash animations and graphics.

    BBC News and Weather mobile sites display very well and are very lightweight + fast.
    The Times mobile site is now a subscription only site, so I no longer use it.
    Torygraph has a mobile site which is ok.
    Google news displays quite nicely too. One of my fave tools for browsing or searching for news articles.

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      #3
      As far as the bandwidth/download limits go, have a default browser with minimal content settings for read-only browsing.

      I'm on a mobile dongle (though not a mobile client, so can't comment on the display issues) with similar limitations, and as most of my browsing is text based I turn javascript/images/etc. off in Chrome, and use that.

      When I need to view more heavy duty content or want to interact (eg. here), I reload in max-powered IE/FF/whatever.

      Firefox probably has various extensions (eg. adblocker) to help limit content in normal browsing as well.

      There may well be a show everything/show text only one-click button in one of the browsers/extensions (think Opera has something similar) to save switching browsers.
      Last edited by Clever Hans; 24 May 2011, 23:19.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Clever Hans View Post
        I'm on a mobile dongle (though not a mobile client, so can't comment on the display issues)
        But I had a bit of a look, anyway...

        Try these:

        List of websites optimized for mobile devices

        Mobile Web - Cantoni.mobi

        m. prefix sometimes brings up the mobile-friendly version of a site.

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          #5
          This site needs Tapatalk!

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            #6
            Originally posted by stek View Post
            This site needs Tapatalk!
            And a bit of old fashioned courtesy when people make an effort to answer your question, like they used to have in the old days in the blitz.

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