A lot of Australian are unimpressed with the offerings of three telcos offering iPhones in Australia. All the plans are heavy on telephony and light on mobile data. The exception are the Optus who are offering low telephony, moderate data plans. For $39 a month you get 500Mb of data + $34 worth of [...]
Do I want one of those brand new 3G iPhone, YES. But I will wait until what will and see what is going to happen with the offers by all the major telcos in Australia, before committing…
The W3C are running a free online training in Mobile Web Best Practices, you can find out more on the course overview page or you can head straight over to the registration page. You might need to rush seeing the course is limited to 100 participants.
Update 1720WST 5 May 2008 , just got informed by W3C the course is now full, the 100 places where filled quicker than they expected.
Hat tip to Scenario Girl. See you on the course Lisa.
I thought I got a good deal at the beginning of the year when I signed up for mobile broadband for 1Gb at $49 a month. Regular readers will know that got upgraded to 2Gb a month, for the same price a few months ago. Well there is now a price war on, with Vodafone offering 5Gb for $39 a month, then 3 offering 2Gb for $24.50 a month and now 1Gb a month for $14.50 (for 3 customers only), for limited time only.
There are a few things to be wary of, to get a free modem you need to sign up for a 2 year contract. Data is calculated on both uploads and downloads. If you exceed your monthly limit, you are charged at a rate of $0.10 a Mb. The service is limited to metropolitan area of major Australian cities. Which means …
Oh what a lovely browser </sarcasm>. I admit I do use it for browsing the mobile web (i.e. site designed only for mobile browsers), it works well with those sites and I need one keypress less than Opera Mobile when paging through the mobile twitter site. However, if required to visit a traditional web site on my phone, I will use Opera Mobile. IE mobile’s rendering of traditional web pages is comical enough to almost win me a WebJam (and I did not have to dance).
The fun really starts when you try to build a site that works in both traditional web browsers and mobile browsers. IE mobile applies both screen and handheld stylesheets. Which can cause chaos. Even knowing this is not enough, I you try to counteract the screen stylesheet by removing styles in a handheld stylesheet, you need to do it properly.
Stewart Greenhill aka the GreenGuy has posted the video of my session the social network in your pocket on viddler.
If you wondered why it has been quiet around here lately, I have spent the last two weeks researching and preparing for my presentation at PodCamp Perth 2007.
| ViewCarnival of the Mobilists #88 is out and yes that presentation is in it. For those who do not know, the Carnival of the Mobilists is a weekly collection of blog posts on mobiles and wireless in one spot. Which moves from blog to blog each week to share the workload
As usual there are a number of very good post, which I am currently reading.
If you have a blog or website, you want statistics, the best place to get them currently is Google Analytics. The statistics are amazing in both detail and depth, with one exception identifying mobile devices…
Sue of Mobile Technology in TAFE of has taken my WebJam slide show added audio from Greenguy’s video and combined them to produce a much improved version of my presentation without me bouncing around the stage. The resulting discussion is interesting.