I got an SMS from Nakama the other day inviting me to fill out a survey. I hardly use the mobile web anymore, since I’m almost always at a computer these days, but I’d been meaning to try something other than just reading news on my phone, so the timing was nice.
The experience wasn’t too bad, but it would have sucked if it was a year ago and I didn’t know that I could easily flip from an SMS with a URL to a browser by hitting Menu -> Go To (in the past I’d type the whole URL, parameters and all, with my keypad). The layout of the survey was well suited to mobile phones and didn’t use up my entire monthly bandwidth allocation, which was also appreciated.
If you’d like to see what it’s like to surf via mobile, I uploaded a video of the first few screens (thus fulfilling my “I’ve been meaning to try YouTube” goal as well). You can check it out here. It’s a little fuzzy - I had a hard time focusing on the phone screen with my camera for some reason - but you should get the idea. This is on Rogers EDGE with a V551. Note the delay between display of the text and the application of the styles…
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