Mobile internet experiences
I've been playing around with the enhanced web browser based on WebCore on a Nokia E61, trying it out in real-life situations (such as finding apartments we're considering buying and figuring out routes). Today I got seriously pissed off - not because of the phone or the browser, but because of some web sites.
Some smart web sites, such as Google, can figure out that you are using a mobile browser, and can serve you a "mobile-optimized" -version. Unfortunately, I happen to have a perfectly capable web browser with a large screen with roughy the same aspect ratio as a normal monitor. These web sites just stupidly assume that I have a crappy browser, and they serve me something that looks positively tiny and constipated with no option of using the full version.
Urgh.
(As an aside: I seem to have problems with sound in iTunes breaking in my ~PowerMac. It seems to happen only when Eclipse is running and I use something graphics intensive (like Exposé). It's as if iTunes is not getting enough CPU... Has anyone seen anything like this?)
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Yeah, i have (or least it was this way) with my SonyEricsson p800 (published 2002) browser with google, which stupidly gives all the time cripled mobile version of it's search.--zache, 27-Nov-2005
Try tapping in http://www.google.com/search and you'll get the 'normal' Google. But Janne you're right, this pisses me off too.
--Risto, 28-Nov-2005