Posted on December 12, 2008, at 4:19 pm .
In my BlackBerry Bold review, I noted that despite the Bold’s new and improved browser, RIM’s own BlackBerry Page wouldn’t load properly.
It seems as though the boys and girls of Waterloo have headed my cries, as RIM has just launched BlackBerry.Mobi, allowing BlackBerry users to get all the latest RIM news from their BlackBerry Browsers. The website loads quickly, is easy to navigate and — most importantly — works. You can check it out by hitting the link below on your BlackBerry Browser:
http://blackberry.mobi
Thank for the heads up, Victoria!
Posted on December 2, 2008, at 10:16 am .
I’ve just received word that RIM has completed a fairly significant relaunch of mobile.blackberry.com, their all-in-one web portal for BlackBerry users. The new mobile.blackberry.com features a much more user-friendly design, requiring fewer clicks to get where you want to go, as well as faster load times.
You can see a few more screenshots of what the new site looks like after the jump, or hit the link below using your BlackBerry. With over two million hits a day to mobile.blackberry.com, you won’t be the only one kicking the tires on the new version!
mobile.blackberry.com
More mobile.blackberry.com screenshots
Posted on August 29, 2008, at 4:36 pm .
While BlackBerry Cool was the first website on the Internet to bring you competent speed testing of the BlackBerry Bold and iPhone 3G web browsers, it seems as though our initial tests were not as definitive as we would have liked them to be. This past week, we have been working with Kevin from CrackBerry.com, who has been trapped in BlackBerry purgatory trying to get any sort of positive browsing experience. While we suggest you read his two long and passionate posts on the subject (which describe crackberry addiction better than anything else on the Internet), here are the problems in a nutshell:
– The BlackBery Bold from Rogers has some serious issues when you attempt to enable Javascript support while browsing the web over 3G.
– There has to be some sort of issue with the Bold and WiFi/HotSpot Browser that pops up under specific circumstances. I don’t know what is yet, but I’m sure there’s something up.
While we were initially surprised to hear that Kevin had been having such problems, because we had not encountered them at all in our testing. However, out of BlackBerry unity, we agreed to give him some help and adopt his testing methodology. Once we did, it became clear that we were facing (some, but not all of) the same problems as Kevin. Which means that something is going on with the BlackBerry Browser.
Click here to read more about BlackBerry Cool’s BlackBerry Bold Browser testing
Posted on July 31, 2008, at 11:23 am .
W3C publications can be downloaded in either .PDF or stone tablet.
Let’s face it, unless you’re rocking the BlackBerry Bold, browsing the web on your BlackBerry is usually a frightening experience: things don’t work, page formatting is often weird and some pages are just too damn big to download. Thankfully, the W3C, which develops guidelines for website standards, has published the details of new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices, hopefully ensuring that even low-end BlackBerry users won’t be left in the lurch.
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 provides steps for content authors to face the challenges of hardware and software diversity, device constraints and bandwidth limitations. In addition, the W3C has also released a XHTML Basic 1.1 Recommendation, providing a convergence in mobile markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
To view both new mobile web standards, head to the World Wide Web Consortium website.
(via Cellular-News)
