Mobile Swiss Kit: 50 Mobile Optimized Sites For Daily Life
Technology Tuesday, May 6th, 2008During our daily routine we are on the move for a considerable amount of time and may not have access to a computer. At these times, the mobile
phone that we carry with ourselves can be a useful device for accessing information from the Internet and for getting things done. In this post, I am mentioning 50 sites which are highly optimized for mobile phones and will let you do various activities which would have, otherwise, required access to a computer. So, here we go:
Newspapers & News Channels: International & U.S.
Business, Finance & Stocks
Business Week : Mobile version of the magazine
Forbes: Mobile version of Forbes
Ameritrade: Stock tracking and trading
Bloomberg: Helps tracking your portfoilo
Schwab: Stock tracking and trading
Search & Reference
Dictionary.com: Mobile dictionary
Answers.com: Search answers from your mobile
Wapedia: Mobile encyclopedia
InfoSpace: Business and People search
Live: Live Search for mobile phones
Super Pages: Business, People, Movie and Reverse phone number search
Starbucks: Find nearest Starbucks in U.S. and Canada
10Best: Search Best 10 of anything in across the world
Google: Good’ol Google search for mobile phones
Yahoo OneSearch: Yahoo web search for mobiles
Entertainment & Social Networking
Billboard: Find music rankings, artists and news
Tuned: Streaming music from online radio channels
Fandango: Mobile based ticket booking service for movies
Facebook: Mobile version of Facebook
YouTube: Watch videos on your mobile
TV Guide: Find TV programs from your phone
Windows Media: Media portal on mobile phone
ZooVision: Media portal with video and audio podcasts, radio, trailers etc.
Medeo: Entertainment and lifestyle content
The Onion: Humorous news stories
Sports
Travel, Trip-Planning & Bookings
Orbitz: Find hotels, view itineraries, airport and flight information
Kayak.com: Searche for cheap travel tickets across search engines
Hotels: Name says it all
FlightStats: Check flight status from mobile phone
Cabbies: Cabs on mobile in U.S., U.K. and Canada
CarRentals: Another cab service
Concierge: Travel guide
SeatGuru: Find the flight seating plan and available amenities
NextBus: Shows the status of the next transit vehicle arrival using satellite tracking
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Posted by Vikrant
on May 6 2008. Filed under Technology.
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