Raiméis

Whatgo?

This caught my attention when I was surfing through c|net news recently. According to c|net “Bango is trying to make it easier to get content onto your mobile phone” and since I love myself so much the idea of being able to read my own blog when mobile really appeals to me :-/

“The way it works is that a user puts the icon or “button” on a Facebook page [or any site really], which then enables friends who visit the page to get photos, music clips, or other files that appear on that page on their handsets.”

According to the Bango homepage however…

“Get people paying for your mobile content and services immediately from their mobile phone anywhere in the world”

Not that my content is worth paying for but I’ve always liked the idea of having a website for mobile users, it’s just that I don’t have any content which would appeal to mobile users.

Still out of curiosity I reckon it’s worth a test…

Edit:

Test 1 … Opera mini browser not supported! WTF?
Test 2 … hint: don’t forget the http://
Test 3 … Following registering with wap.com you get a link to the site you’re trying to visit.
After downloading 77kb I canceled the download and at that stage it had downloaded almost the entire page anyway though styles/layout etc were a mess. The content was certainly readable but as a webmaster I’d feel bad offering that as an option to visitors. I’d much prefer to serve a separate site specifically for mobiles. It may certainly suit those who wish to charge for their content but this idea of using it with Facebook or blogs is nonsense IMO.

For comparison I went to Raiméis using Opera Mini. It downloaded the page in only 28kb WITH images and gave me a fully styled rendering of my blog (with javascript!) and although the rendering wasn’t perfect it was damn close!

Opera Mini is class all the same!