Mobile U Tips
Tips for following your favorite teams on your wireless device.
Save time: Make a widget, find a widget
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.
Find the mobile version of your favorite website
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.
Hey Beijing, do you Yahoo?
“2008 Olympics Coverage” is Yahoo’s newly launched mobile Olympics site where you’ll find Beijing time and weather at the top, and a timer that counts down the days, hours, and minutes until the start of the games on August 8th. The timer will likely be replaced with other content once the games begin. There is a section devoted to news and photos, which deliver the top headlines with links to read the full stories.
Official Olympic updates on the go
The official site for Olympic news (in the U.S.), NBCOlympics, will be offering a mobilized version of their site and news via text (text OLYMPMICS to 51515). You can also access their mobile site directly with your web enabled phone. They’re offering mobile alerts, mobile video, and mobile TV news for select mobile devices.
Beijing mobile widget
Mobile widget maker Plusmo is also getting ready for the Games, offering a Beijing widget available at there their website which can be added to your phone to deliver the latest headlines.
Olympic video on the go
MobiTV customers can subscribe to a mobile channel showing NBC Sports programming, which will be all Olympics coverage come August.