The mobile web is increasingly becoming a part of our lives and how we find, communicate and absorb information. One only has to look at his or her friends’ status updates to realise that Facebook is receiving an increase of updates via mobile devices. Plus the occasional epiphany update which often goes something along the lines of, “Jon has updated his Facebook status on his mobile!! How clever is that!?!?” (or words to that effect) illustrates the increasing usage of the mobile web as it transcends from early adopter phase to mainstream.
Data prices are becoming cheaper and over here in Europe the EU is beginning to take action against the carriers that charge extortionate mobile web roaming charges when consumers use the phones in other EU countries. Mobile speeds are increasing and mobile browsers are improving at a fast rate. With this in mind, here’s a list of mobile news sites to be saved straight into your phone’s browser favourites. (Note: A couple of the links link to the publication’s page where you have to input your mobile number to be sent a text of a link to the site.)
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The Envelope (from the LA Times) |
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The Australian (Australia) |
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) |
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Globe and Mail (Canada) |
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Toronto Star (Canada) |
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International Herald Tribune (France) |
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Le Monde (France) |
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Der Spiegel (German) |
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Gazzetta Dello Sport (Italy) |
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Times of India (India) |
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Moscow Times (Russia) |
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Mail & Guardian (South Africa) |
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Manila Bulletin (Philippines) |
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Adage (Media) |
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E-consultancy (Media) |
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Gawker (Media) |
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Holy Moly (Humor) |
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The Onion (Humor) |
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BBC Weather (Weather) |
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Foreca (Weather) |
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National Weather Service (Weather) |
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The Weather Channel (Weather) |
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Stephen is a communications consultant based out of the UK. You can connect with him on Twitter or check out his LinkedIn profile. | Email Stephen
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Justin
Great little list… Love da mobile
Stephen Waddington
Brilliant Stephen, really brilliant. Thanks so much for the list.
Iron Mauro
For Italy, I reccomend http://www.repubblica.it/mobile/
I understand why Steve believes Gazzetta dello Sport is our major daily overall. It’s the only one we buy while travelling, expecially during summer vacation (players exchange is the only news it really matters).
Thanks for this!
Chris Reed
Nice list. V useful. Will certainly find myself killing a spare minute on HolyMoly on my phone now…
The other one I’d add is netvibes – I pick up all my rss feeds on my mobile these days. Interface isn’t too bad either, even on my battered old n73….m.netvibes.com
Becky McMichael
Really useful list Steve – cheers
Stephen
Thanks guys, glad you found it useful.
Mihnea Miculescu
Yup, I only know about one in Romania (http://m.hotnews.ro) – but the list is great, I just bookmarked this post on my phone.
Thanks!
Gaj
Great list of sites.
I also use a feedreader like Chris on my phone so you can view any website with an RSS feed like prblogger easily on your mobile. If your phone doesn’t have one by default then you can download one like Google reader. Its also cheap as it doesn’t download all the costly images.
http://www.google.com/mobile/
Thanks for the list.
Justin Baker
A bit late to this but I think we could include Mippin in there under the Media or Technology categories – it does both equally well! http://mippin.com on your mobile device
Radyo Bakur
Great summery. Thanks for useful info and links that can easily take.