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Notes of general interest to all mobile phone users. Please check here regularly. (scroll down)
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More !Bango for the buck...
Traffic report (California)...
Wap sites can't do this...
Check Geekzone for news...
Mobile tip #001...
Free ringtones and sms ...
Get email the easy way...
What's the score?...
Need film times?...
Thumbtips beta site...
Opera Mobile 250% faster...
Mobile browsing costs...
4/9/2004 - If you're looking for the best premium content on the web (ie: paid for), look no further than !Bango. Surely no company out there 'gets' the mobile web better than these guys! We'll be running a feature pretty soon on the future dominant leader of the mobile web (enough gushing!). For now if you're looking for U-rated or Adult content go  !bango . You'll find them, along with other useful link collections, in our portals section.
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2/9/2004 - Now here's something we all could use! Real-time traffic reports for many California cities, including the big smoky (LA) at  traffic (california) from Squeezenet. This service should be rolled out Nationwide soon. Wonder if we can get it here in London,or Rome or any other of those big traffic cities?
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2/9/2004 - The more we do withThumbtips the more surprised (and pleased!) we are at the new capabilities opened up. Check this: since many of our links are html based (instead of wap) you can use your PC browser to preview links and sites at home or office (we don't mean a screenshot , actually use them!). Then, when you're on the road, you know exactly where to go. Try that with a wap site or Avantgo™! As more companies get hip to the possibilities we believe the mobile web is going to explode! The Thumbtips site on the PC is the same url. Go Fish!.
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1/9/2004 - Those of you who are technically minded should check out  geekzone . Keep up with the latest mobile-related info from a wide array of sources, in an easy to use and well laid out site.
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1/9/2004 - Mobile Tip #001 : Instead of using the Back button in your browser it can work out faster, and more economical, to use your history list to return to a previous page. Depending on how your phone handles its cache this can avoid repeat downloads, but don't forget to refresh or reload if you need up-to-the-minute pages.
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31/08/2004 - This one isn't accessible over your phone (yet!) but it seems too good to pass up. You can download free ringtones and wallpapers and send unlimited sms messages to 1-10 people at cardboardfish.com (use a PC browser). The only catch seems to be a tag message they attach to your messages but it's worth checking out... maybe we can convince them to make it mobile-friendly?
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30/08/2004 - If you subscribe to Hotmail or Yahoo mail and you haven't figured out how to get it thru your phone yet why not get it directly from their mobile-friendly sites? Our EMAIL SECTION has the links but be careful, if your inbox is loaded the message download can take a while and add up in bandwidth! email...
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30/08/2004 - If you're not just a fan but a FANATIC like some people we know (ahem!) then you need to check out our SPORTS section. We have mobile-ready links to the major multi-sport sites like ESPN and SKY SPORTS and the specialist ones like Guardian Soccer so thumbs up for Thumbtips and go to sports...
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30/08/2004 - One of the most annoying things for my wife is having to call up the local cinema to find out movie times. She has to suffer through an automated voice response system that not only takes time and frustrates her but generally requires her to call back again and go through the whole rigma just to finally get her info. Well, thanks to Thumbtips there's a nifty way around this. Just enter your postcode/zipcode and you can get film titles, times, reviews and more, personalized to your location. Simply go to  guardian film list (uk) or to moviefone (us) and say goodbye to ring up hassles! You can find these links and many others in our entertainment section.
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30/08/2004 - Thumbtips.com beta site is launched, providing a central starting point for the mobile web. Thumbtips focuses on http and wap (not network. PC or software reliant) sites that are directly accessible to any phone with a web browser. Only the best such sites are listed. more... 5KB
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29/08/2004 - Opera has launched a go-faster service for mobile phone browsing, claiming the system cuts bills and increases rendering speed on mobile devices by up to 250%. The Opera Mobile Accelerator is a proxy-based system available for Sony-Ericsson P800/P900 and all Series 60 handsets, including Nokia, Siemens and Sendo X. more... 71.8KB
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29/08/2004 - Most GPRS Always-on Internet Browsers are free to use for browsing connections. Users are only charged for the data downloads incurred by the amount of text on the page and any ather media such as pictures, sounds or video. Users should check their network providers for exact pricing info. Increasing the pricing plan by a few pounds or dollars can often yield significant savings. For example stepping up on Vodafone from 100 to 200 free minutes per month costs about £10.00 more yet per megabyte download rates drop from £7.00+ to approximately £2.00+. That can translate to several dozen pages! Check it out!
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