If your wondering about the dearth of posts lately, I’ve been traveling with almost no access to the net other than through my phone. I probably should have tried to do a mobile post or two, using mobile web based e-mail and WordPress’ e-mail to post feature. Unfortunately, I never got around to setting up and testing the special post by e-mail address before I left. What I did do while on vacation was attempt to manage all my e-mail … Continue reading
Yahoo has launched a mobile mail beta. When I logged into Yahoo Mail using Opera Mini there was a Try New Mobile Beta link at the top of the start page. Naturally, I checked it out immediately. Yahoo Mobile Mail has always had a simple appearance, almost entirely text with the only color being a small logo at the top and beige bar at the bottom of the page. The beta is almost as simple but looks less sparse with … Continue reading
I’ve been looking at the various mobile web based email providers. Previous posts covered Gmail Mobile and Microsoft’s new Live Mail Mobile. Today it’s Yahoo’s turn. Yahoo has had mobile email since 2000. The current version has been around for at least a couple of years but it’s a good design and is aging well. There are both WAP2 and WAP1 versions of Yahoo Mail. The interfaces of the two versions are almost identical. The screenshots show the WAP2 version. … Continue reading
As I mentioned in the Live Search review a week ago, there are two new items on the MSN Mobile homepage Windows Live Mail Beta and Windows Live Search Beta. I’ve covered Live Search and found it very promising. Now as part of my ongoing project to review and compare the various mobile web based email services (the Gmail Mobile review is here), this is my take on Live Mail. I was originally planning on covering Hotmail Mobile (which is … Continue reading