A user on HowardForums's tipped me about the Minneapolis StarTribune's mobile site . The site's really designed for PDA's but usability scales down to typical phones fairly well. There are links to about 35 breaking news stories on the front page. A top level menu links to other sections including a section for each of the area's pro sports teams. The section pages each link to about 10 stories so there is a lot of content on the mobile StarTribune .
The entire site is text only except for the masthead logo. Page sizes average around 5KB, small enough to load on even the most memory starved phones.
There is a minor usability issue on phones with the Motorola Internet Browser (MIB). Lines run together rather than breaking where they should. This is caused by the use of xhtml-style closed <br/> elements on a html page. The pages are still readable but don't look as nice as they should on phones with this popular browser.
For Twin Cities residents, a mobile browser bookmark to the Star Tribune means they always have the daily paper in their pocket.
The StarTribune is linked from the Yeswap.com portal under News/US Local by State/IN - NV
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posted by Dennis Bournique
December 3, 2006 @ 4:34 pm
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