Mobile Navigation - Soft Keys

Mobile Application design is new territory. The metaphor for navigation has not been completely defined however one thing remains certain, without a standard keyboard and mouse for navigation on mobile devices creativity for ease of use is key.

clipped from www.sitepen.com Adding the accesskey attribute to link a lets users “click” on that link by simply pressing a number on their phone’s keypad. Valid values for accesskey can be 0-9,#, and * (all of the keys on a standard phone keypad). Displaying which key will activate a link is up to the application as most phones won’t tell the user that a link has an access key. Web site designers currently need to decide on a consistent way to inform users that an access key is associated with a given link. Most apps will use ordered lists where the order of the links corresponds with the access keys. Putting the number in brackets inside or next to the link is another way to denote the accesskey. accesskey CNN’s mobile site makes good use of accesskeys. They have chosen to associate the main sections of their web site with the access keys 1 through 9:

Bringing the PC experience to your Mobile Phone.

It's not really news any more that mobile devices offer web browsing but Yahoo One Step has taken browsing one step further by offering the PC browsing experience of bookmarking your favorite sites for instant access,

clipped from www.webware.com News Yahoo to launch mobile-bookmarking tool By Stefanie Olsen – March 4, 2008, 12:22 PM PST Post a Comment The Internet company on Tuesday unveiled a new bookmarking tool for cell phones that lets people keep track of favorite Web content--news feeds, search results, Web sites--from one place on their handheld. The technology, called Yahoo OnePlace, will be available in the second quarter of 2008, according to Yahoo.

Mobio Cheap Gas Application

Now in Beta

Find out the nearest gas station and price of gas. Maps included. Functional application. May not be the most stylish design in the world but it gets the info you need to you quick and effeciently.

See demos on their site. Other applications include Trivia, Movies, RSS feeds, Weather, Events, and Recipes

clipped from www.getmobio.com

Transfer Ringtones, Video, Pictures, Games from PC to Mobile Cell Phone

This site enables to upload any file to your mobile phone. Simply upload the file to the file sharing list, you will be given a code that enables you to access the file for the next 48 hours. With your cell phone's mobile browser log into this site submit your code and your files will be downloaded to your phone.

Easy.

clipped from www.wappal.com clipped from www.wappal.com - We offer free wap hosting for your files. You upload your files from your pc to Wappal.com and you will get ID. then you open wap browser in your phone and enter http://wappal.com/wap.php , enter the file ID , then download the file on your phone. - Any file file can be uploaded. ringtones , wallpapers , themes , software , games , real sounds. All files are accepted but they must not contain porngraphy or nudity or copyrighted or pirated files.

Alphabetical Navigation System

I like this application interface for looking up mobile content.

clipped from www.mobiletopsoft.com Software search: clipped from www.mobiletopsoft.com ContactBreeze offers a fast and easy-to-use contact searching solution for Windows Mobile devices along with a set of utilities that adds new extensions to some of the Windows Mobile operating system built-in tools that makes it easier to reach your contacts. Using ContactBreeze thumbs keyboard you can easily search your contacts and dial/SMS/email any of your contacts using a fully one-handed navigation interface. Additionally, once installed, ContactBreeze will include new extension menu options within your default Calendar and Tasks applications allowing you to easily dial or SMS to any phone number string included with one of your appointments or tasks.

Ultimate Cool Mobile Application

Using the GPS feature of your cell phone you can track your walking/driving path, calculate time and distance and even how fast you are travelling.

This is some hip gadetry. Very nice Graphic User Interface as well.

I like very much.

clipped from www.mobiletopsoft.com With maps support and track recording VITO SmartNavigator is the ideal solution for geocaching as well as for off-road traveling. SmartNavigator provides various trip info like speed, direction and distance to a destination point, compass, current time, or active satellites. Apart from this VITO SmartNavigator displays a track of movements on a map. Users can set pushpins to mark their personal places of interest. Pushpins can be set only for certain tracks or for all maps and tracks. VITO SmartNavigator allows you to upload a previous track in the background while recording a new one and check your current path against it. Tracks recorded with VITO SmartNavigator are compatible with Google Earth. VITO SmartNavigator uses vtm maps available at http://vitotechnology.com. Users can create their own maps with a free VITO MapManager. Skillful users will be able to build their own plug-ins to support maps of any format in VITO SmartNavigator.

A wireless Mouse for Your Cell Phone.

No more fiddling with those little arrow keys, you can now scroll around your phone screen with a wireless bluetooth mouse the same as you would on your P.C.

Very cool advancement in technology. Mobile Devices are moving beyond SMS Text Messaging, Voice Mail and Phone Calls.

It's like having a mini computer in our pockets these days.

clipped from www.mobiletopsoft.com After the announce of BlueMouse 1.0 Teksoft has made this mouse driver for Windows Mobile available. BlueMouse is an advanced software that will allow Pocket PC users to experience the confort of having a wireless bluetooth mouse for their mobile device. So if you like to use any Bluetooth mouse (including the ones for regular PC computers) with Pocket PC, now you can.