- #HOW TO BOOKMARK A WEBSITE ON MOBILE FULL#
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- #HOW TO BOOKMARK A WEBSITE ON MOBILE FREE#
In fact, it's so good that it's arguably better than the full desktop eBay experience, in terms of speed and rendering.
One of the most impressive mobile sites to bookmark, eBay Mobile makes a dedicated application completely redundant. We've also used the default browser, but any other browser will work too. Note: We've used a QVGA-screened S60 3rd Edition device for the screenshots, but this applies just as much to other Nokia phones and mobile devices in general. My aim was no apps, no expense, no touch needed, no app store needed. How many of these top apps could be replaced by a simple one-line bookmark in Web? And how practical is this approach in real life? I went a-testing.
#HOW TO BOOKMARK A WEBSITE ON MOBILE FREE#
Looking at the top 200 paid and free applications, I tried to identify the most popular 'online' applications, created here for the iPhone but also, in some cases recreated for other platforms, including Symbian, as apps that can be downloaded and automatically installed. With all the above in mind, I started at the top of the 'apps' tree - the Apple iPhone App Store. And thirdly, not all mobile sites are adept at managing cookies, resulting in you sometimes having to login each time you visit - a possible dealbreaker, though this is quite rare.
Secondly, what you see will look more rarified, in terms of graphics and interface - usually. The downsides of going down this route (rather than trying to find an 'app' that manages the site or service for you) are threefold: firstly, you'll rarely get the full functionality of the site or service - there will undoubtedly be some compromise needed. And all with only one icon slot used on your S60 menu!
So, we have an Internet that's more mobile-aware than ever, with servers auto-detecting a mobile phone OS and adapting their content automatically, so why not use this in Web on your smartphone to bypass a lot of typical high profile 'apps' entirely? Set a bookmark to each and you're done. A mobile web page will usually load in a couple of seconds, where the equivalent desktop page would take the best part of a minute to do much the same thing. Saving bytes isn't necessarily about keeping bandwidth down (though it will help a lot here too), it's also about drastically reducing downloading and rendering times. Of course, bandwidth is more plentiful in 2010 than in 2004, but not unlimited (as many people are finding out). A 2MB desktop page will often only be 20Kb as a mobile page, a saving of over 100 times.
#HOW TO BOOKMARK A WEBSITE ON MOBILE CODE#
Given that a 'desktop' web site (apparently the marketeers and bloggers expect us to browse these, on our large touch-screened devices, though I have to confess it's something I only do as a last resort!) can often be several Megabytes of code and images, using the 'mobile' version instead can save huge amounts of bandwidth. Which means far less crud and a far higher proportion of real content. In 2010, most mobile web sites mentioned on these pages have a very healthy fraction of the functionality of their more bloated desktop equivalent. In the old days (2004!), a mobile web site was usually a very poor relation to the full web site, was often little more than a placeholder and, in extreme cases, was actually WAP-based rather than using standard HTML. Now, don't switch off because I referred to a 'mobile' web site. You can also add book marks to the homescreen easily.