W3C Standards Make Mobile Web Experience More Inviting

W3C today announced new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices.

http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

W3C published a second standard today: XHTML Basic 1.1 Recommendation, the preferred format specification of the Best Practices.

The Working Group also published today the first draft of a next generation of guidelines, Mobile Web Application Best Practices, aimed at mobile Web applications.

Opera Mobile 9.5

Wow, I have been very impressed with Opera Mobile 9.5 on my Verizon XV6800. This is an incredible mobile browser! You can view standard web pages and easily zoom in and out. Reminds me of using Safari on the iPhone.

I'm still waiting to test mobile Firefox. It should perform better than Minimo, but will it beat Opera Mobile?

Samsung SCH-i760 gets a Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade

The title says it all. Microsoft released Windows Mobile 6.1 a while ago, and now Samsung is offering a free upgrade for those who have a SCH-i760 smartphone.

I'm still using my XV6800 (HTC Titan, Sprint Mogul, PPC XV6800) and I've been running Windows Mobile 6.1 for a few months now - thanks to the XDA developers.