Thanks!
]]>I have used PDAs in the past (Palm 105, Acer n300) but never again. I'm sick of mobile devices and all the crap of incompatible software. It's bad enough when you're forced to use proprietary programs on a handheld device, but it's idiotic for them to use different and sometimes incompatible file formats.
If it can't run PC software, I don't want it. The only mobile device I want anymore is my mobile phone.
]]>Using a Palm Centro myself..Happy with the phone....No plans to switch anytime soon.
]]>Like my Motorola Z9 (aka Slidey-RAZR 2.0)
]]>@mazzic1083: you are not alone. Until they make it dirt cheap for me to surf, I can wait until I get home to browse and sent e-mails.
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: I agree. My eyes hurt as well. I spend at least 40 mins on here pr/day and I could use some contrast so I could scan through as well without straining.
]]>@usa_gatekeeper: I actually make a buck or 2 a month using mine 300 minutes/month!
]]>mine texts and dials numbers. it's a samsung on sprint. i'm not cool enough to have a smartypants phone.
]]>So no vote from me.
]]>Also, comment reading/leaving would be excellent.
]]>I think my plain old cell phone is about 4 years old. My last two phones I actually liked got left on airplanes, and there's nothing I'd resent more at this point than giving ATT or some evil equivilant a hundred bucks a month to be annoyed by them (the ire @ATT goes way back).
Hated the razor, that got sold on ebay.
Hated the I-Phone, that got sold on ebay.
I don't even have a 'plan' anymore, I prepay. Works for me.
]]>Don't think so. I am absolutely awash in technological nerdery. I just don't get the appeal of either web surfing, or web page reading, on a phone-size screen.
]]>How about a lightweight mobile site? m.consumerist.com, user-agent recognition and CSS with minimal graphics (no avatars, no ads & so on).
I've got Safari on one device and native S60 browser on another. Both can handle the full site but can be slow sometimes.
]]>I need an option such as "what's a mobile platform?". How do I put one on my Net10 phone?
]]>@pecan 3.14159265:
Oh no, I say curmudgeon FTW!
I can only pick one eh? Blackberry and WinMo in reality.
]]>Now, if the mobile app had extra features???
]]>Translation "I should have just bought a Blackberry."
]]>It's a pain to read on the iPhone. It's just not proportional.
I have an iPhone, but I don't think it seems like you need any sort of device-specific app - just make a mobile-friendly version of your website.
Too bad that sentence is meaningless to almost everyone on this site.:(
]]>Windows Mobile FTW! Of course I can browse the main site great using IE 6 for mobile or Skyfire, but a app would be cool too. :D
]]>@Alexander:
I just ordered my Samsung Moment, but it won't arrive at my office until tomorrow. I'm excited about it, though.
"R-4, Scramble code 5 to Coruscant, care of the Old Folk's Home."
]]>Office-supplied and paid for Blackberry curve here. Can't really complain either. 95% of the time I'm either at the office or at home. Google Reader works great in the BB broswer and I have facebook and twitter apps for the rest of it.
Google maps makes for a good GPS too.
]]>Any mobile specific site should have a link that allows you to go to the full site.
]]>@ludwigk:
Thanks, ludwigk!
That was one feature I didn't know about, but definitely needed to know.
]]>...am I just a curmudgeon for having no interest at all in any such mobile-specific apps?
I want to view the Consumerist, and other sites, in my web browser on a PC. I have not the slightest interest in doing so on my phone.
?
]]>Oh I wish I knew what a platform was, I think my Samsung Memoir probably has one. When I unlocked it to AT&T it turns out no one has figured out how to debrand its tmobil settings. My state of the art celly turned into a Fred Flintstone hunk of junk after I put my sim card in.
]]>None.
You didn't list "none" as an option.
]]>@kexline: I write into a pure white box too, but I'm talking about the ones in which you read comments. Mine look a little pale blue now that I adjusted my monitor, but I swear, swear, swear up and down with Moneycat as my witness, it used to be greyish.
]]>@Kamidari: My biggest gripe is that on some of the threads with a lot of comments, I'm forced to swipe my finger over and over and over to get back to the top. I could hit "back" but my goal in getting to the top is to hit the Consumerist home banner and simultaneously return to the front page and reload it to update.
]]>@Ben Popken: What about non-mobile people...?
]]>Ok is it bad that I have none of these? My phone is just a phone that happens to be able to take pictures and text as well...
And about four or five years old...
I feel like an upgrade might be needed soon
]]>No "None of the above" option?
]]>Normal sites render and work just fine on the android browser so please dont make me use a user agent switcher.
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: I hold it sideways to read the articles and then vertical + zoom in a bit to read the comments.
]]>umm...how would I know ?
I can read it on my phone. I have to see what the kitty cats are up to several times a day.
]]>Maybe I'm going crazy. I swear they weren't as white as they are now. I've even adjusted my monitor. Still white.
]]>@WeAre138: It's a pain to read on the iPhone. It's just not proportional.
]]>Yes, an iPhone app would be perfect!
]]>I have an Ipod touch and use the regular consumerist website on it all the time.
I will try an app if you guys make one, but I hope it will include commenting or I will just continue to use safari.
A mobile site for my phone would be awesome though. I picked "WAP" because I don't know what my phone uses. It's a LG Xenon. It does have a full html browser, but it won't load the consumerist because the site is too large.
]]>Blackberry ftw. Although I'd much rather have a Windows mobile.
]]>This is OT, and I apologize, but as long as we're talking about the Consumerist site...is it just me or are the comment boxes white now, instead of grey like they used to be? Gotta say, I prefer the grey. The white makes my eyes hurt. Too much white!
]]>@Kamidari: I think if they're doing a mobile friendly site, they still have to test how it looks on various browsers.
]]>Really the existing site isn't unusable on my phone, either, but it could be nicer.
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