A multitude of both web- and non-web-enabled features are available from Yahoo! Mobile. Their popular mail feature lets you read, reply and search emails from any Internet-enabled phone, while Yahoo! oneSearch lets users get the 411 on all sorts of businesses.
Weatherbug Mobile lets you check the forecast from the palm of your hand. Mobile weather updates, forecasts, alerts, etc. On the website you can download the apps for your phone or a widget for your desktop.
TextMarks provides a handy listing of services and information available simply by sending a text. Information includes SF MUNI arrival times, what’s playing on New York’s WNYC radio station, and ratings for movies on Rotten Tomatoes. Check out the keywords and start texting!
Mosio is a handy web app that lets you text any question from your mobile phone and have it answered by real people. Just send an email message to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and receive up-to four different answers back.
Mobile widgets, slideshows, gamecasts, feeds, and more delivered can be delivered to your phone at Plusmo mobile. You can also make a customized widget, without any coding required. News, sports, weather, TV show and company updates, social networking sites—Plusmo lets you take tens of thousands of your favorites to go.
Read your favorite blogs using your existing mobile phone. The convenient tool at PhoneFeeds.com lets you simply enter the URL of your favorite blog to generate accessible content for your phone.
News Alloy is a free Web Based Feed Reader for discovering, reading, and sharing news and information. View information from a wide variety of news sources, special interest publications and blogs via RSS and Atom. It’s easy to use and optimized for your phone.
Add your own favorite RSS feed to MobiFeeds’ database, then access it through any 2G or 3G mobile phone. You can then grab your feed on the go (an XHTML browser is recommended for optimal viewing).
LiteFeeds is a customizable RSS reader for your mobile phone. Because the articles are cached and compressed, they’re perfectly optimized for your device. LiteFeeds also lets you sync your online subscriptions and send e-mails and alerts.
LiteFeeds is a customizable RSS reader for your mobile phone. Because the articles are cached and compressed, they’re perfectly optimized for your device. LiteFeeds also lets you sync your online subscriptions and send e-mails and alerts.
For the true news junkie, you’ve got to know what’s going on. And if you read the New York Times, their mobile-enabled download will keep you in the loop at all times. Scan headlines, read articles, get stock quotes, check show times, search real estate listings, create news alerts, and even e-mail articles to friends from your phone.
Use BareSite.com to view websites and RSS feeds faster and cheaper with your mobile device, allowing you to easily search for news, jobs, weather and traffic. Registration is not needed, and no download or installation is necessary.
Wapipedia is a web-enabled app that lets you access, search and navigate Wikipedia articles in a mobile-friendly manner. Just point your mobile browser of choice to Wapipedia to get all the goodness of Wikipedia on your phone.
Opera Mini 4 - mobile web browser - enables you to stay in touch with your friends on Facebook, manage your Twitter feed, get your e-mail on the go, and do your online banking. Download Opera Mini directly to your phone by visiting operamini.com using your existing phone’s Web browser.
Make your cell phone do things you only thought your BlackBerry could do. TeleFlip can convert emails into text messages and deliver them to your cell phone. Your carrier’s text messaging rates are the only charge. Get started online at
Get local Amber Alerts sent directly to your cell via SMS. Choose up to five zip codes. Most carriers wave the SMS fees for this service. Just enter your phone number on the site and Amber Alerts will be sent to you as text messages.
Get traffic reports for many major cities sent directly to your cell phone through Traffic.com. Just register on their site and they’ll help you avoid the next traffic jam.
Podlinez is a service that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone for free. Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast on their site to get a phone number you can call to hear it, or browse their directory. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in their directory, you can add it.
Send video to your phone from mywaves and watch what you want when you want.
Just go to their website, browse through the content offerings and subscribe to the channels you want. Watch personal videos, web videos, and even professional programming.
Not sure if your favorite website is compatible with your mobile web browser? Well, Tilt View can tell you. The website has options to check for IE Mobile, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Opera Mini and Symbian. It also works on all mobile browsers.
For the visually impaired, text based mobile technology doesn’t have much of a use. A new service from Audiopoint, called Voice Terminal Service (VTS), changes that. VTS is a service that alerts users via any telephone about updates to a news feed, keyword search, email or calendar item. Each item is read to the user over the telephone immediately after it happens.
WidSets is a free service that allows you to access your favorite web content from your mobile phone for free. Through the use of mobile widgets and applications you can have access to non-mobile enhanced sites such as Wikipedia, flickr, The Wall St. Journal, Twitter, a push email program and many more. WidSets also allows you to share mobile content with other users as well as publish your own content to the web.
