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Mobile Devices and the Mobile Web. Craig Thompson. Mobile Overview. Devices Web Browsers Making Mobile Sites Managing Mobile Sites Resources. Mobile Devices. Apple Research In Motion (RIM) - BlackBerry Palm - Treo Nokia Samsung Motorola LG Sony Ericsson Kyocera Pantech
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Mobile Devices and the Mobile Web Craig Thompson
Mobile Overview Devices Web Browsers Making Mobile Sites Managing Mobile Sites Resources
Mobile Devices Apple Research In Motion (RIM) - BlackBerry Palm - Treo Nokia Samsung Motorola LG Sony Ericsson Kyocera Pantech 255 Million handsets in the US...
Mobile Web Browsers NetFront Obigo Openwave Safari Blackberry Mozilla Internet Explorer Nokia browser, Web Browser for S60 Opera Mini Polaris ...40 Million browse the web (Neilson Mobile)
Making Mobile Web Sites WAP 1.0 = WML (XML) WAP 2.0 = XHTML XHTML MP - Mobile Profile CSS support click to call link protocol WTAI access key markup for keypad links limited screen size limited bandwidth getting easier with more iPhone/BlackBerry/Treo adoption testing with emulators (openwave, winwap, nokia)
Managing Mobile Web Sites with CMS Use a CMS for a single point of content management Break your site into sections and types of content Use metadata information to improve content use and reuse Content can be repackaged for many distribution channels
Mobile Web Resources moconews.net - world-wide mobile content news phonescoop.com - device specs for just about any device mobiForge.com (formerly dev.mobi) www.news.com - Wireless tab (cnet) any carrier site for dev networks CTIA The Wireless Assoc. - Spring and Fall (Spring is bigger) Craig Thompson - craigt@tamu.edu