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Originally Posted by NatCh
A mobile version of MobileRead is something that's been on Alex's plate for some time, but there have been some other things recently that have pushed it aside. I'm pretty sure it's still in the works, though -- he's commented on how painful it is to read the site on his Blackberry.  |
It seems you and Alex are right NatCh. I'm finding GPRS internet access to be quite slow and cumbersome. Many clicks are often required to navigate and it feels like I have a 300 baud modem again. It seems to take forever to reach any real content. I also get quite a few timeouts.
I found a site on which I can read eBooks. I went
here to sign up, and read part of a novel. But I have yet to successfully connect to it with my smartphone. Maybe those of you in the west will have a better result.
There is
a free site creation site called "wappy", but so far it hasn't liked the page I created well enough to show it to me on my smartphone. There is
another site called "tagtag", which allows you to store 1M of content for download. It is not a webpage
per se, but just a storage place.
I have unearthed a huge number of WAP sites. Some of them appear to have been abandoned, but there are many out there providing content. There are really only two things that would make WAP a winner for me. One would be a good reading experience, and the other would be access to my email without changing my email address.
I can get Mobileread on my smartphone, but I think I am spoiled by the big screen experience. Still, I have found that GPRS doesn't restrict me to my home city, and the ability to find anything at all is better than staring at the back of the seat in front of me.
Note: While I have been composing this post, I have been trying to retrieve an article. Just as I am ready to click on the "Save Changes" control, the article is ready to read.
I would be most interested in the experience of others with WAP and reading on the web.