Comments on: pa.gd (Paged Mobile) shortens Web for Mobile http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/ All About Mobile 2.0 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:24:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Imre Meszaros http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-345397 Imre Meszaros Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:50:32 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-345397 I don't agree with you completely if you refer to Paged mobile service. Hopefully you considered that Paged mobile is especially for mobile phones. Suppose we have a mobile phone with a dial pad and Opera mini browser installed and already started. For example, we want to enter techcrunch.com. Using the dial pad by the SMS-like way, you need 31 (!) keypresses to enter techcrunch.com. Moreover if you have no luck, you mistype approximately 2 or 3 letters during the 31 keypresses (mistyping means a wrong letter, delete it, and choose the right letter again - additional possible keypresses). Paged mobile service has a shortcut tech for techcrunch.com and tech needs only 8 keypresses (!) to type (with fewer possible input error). And if you recall the Paged mobile service before from the bookmarks that means a few additional keystrokes and time in general. I don't think that this procedure can be easily described as "which is not making it less complicated at all", at least for me I would conclude the same if there are similar amount of keypresses necessary than entering the original web address, but using the shortcut system should be much shorter in general. Finally, I don't say that Paged mobile service is perfect, I hope that I can find a way to make it more usable. with regards, Imre Meszaros www.pa.gd I don’t agree with you completely if you refer to Paged mobile service.

Hopefully you considered that Paged mobile is especially for mobile phones.

Suppose we have a mobile phone with a dial pad and Opera mini browser installed and already started. For example, we want to enter techcrunch.com.
Using the dial pad by the SMS-like way, you need 31 (!) keypresses to enter techcrunch.com. Moreover if you have no luck, you mistype approximately 2 or 3 letters during the 31 keypresses (mistyping means a wrong letter, delete it, and choose the right letter again - additional possible keypresses). Paged mobile service has a shortcut tech for techcrunch.com and tech needs only 8 keypresses (!) to type (with fewer possible input error). And if you recall the Paged mobile service before from the bookmarks that means a few additional keystrokes and time in general. I don’t think that this procedure can be easily described as “which is not making it less complicated at all”, at least for me I would conclude the same if there are similar amount of keypresses necessary than entering the original web address, but using the shortcut system should be much shorter in general.

Finally, I don’t say that Paged mobile service is perfect, I hope that I can find a way to make it more usable.

with regards,

Imre Meszaros
http://www.pa.gd

]]> By: Johnson http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-265510 Johnson Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:33:46 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-265510 You are right!I agree with you completelly. http://www.beltal.com You are right!I agree with you completelly.
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]]> By: TMC http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-262387 TMC Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:47 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-262387 You make it more complicated in an effort to make it less complicated which is not making it less complicated at all. Get it? You make it more complicated in an effort to make it less complicated which is not making it less complicated at all. Get it?

]]> By: Chris http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-261840 Chris Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:19:41 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-261840 Did you try to use one of the eBay wireless alert services? Not sure they work in Europe or not but in any case our own solution which allows listing on eBay from a cellphone will work with non QWERTY as well as we rely on 'templates' created on the PC and downloaded to the mobile, so you just have to add a title and some descriptive stuff with the fancy html already there, but yes I do realize listing an item for sale on eBay is expected to take a little longer than checking on an auction Chris http://www.midprofile.com Midprofile for eBay Did you try to use one of the eBay wireless alert services? Not sure they work in Europe or not but in any case our own solution which allows listing on eBay from a cellphone will work with non QWERTY as well as we rely on ‘templates’ created on the PC and downloaded to the mobile, so you just have to add a title and some descriptive stuff with the fancy html already there, but yes I do realize listing an item for sale on eBay is expected to take a little longer than checking on an auction

Chris
http://www.midprofile.com
Midprofile for eBay

]]> By: Ross Burton http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-261735 Ross Burton Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:14:15 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/09/24/pagd-paged-mobile-shortens-web-for-mobile/#comment-261735 "The cybercafés were crowded and very few had “western” QWERTY keyboards" Complaining that French cafes use French keyboards isn't entirely fair... what other keyboard should they use? A US keyboard without any accents, yet alone their currency? “The cybercafés were crowded and very few had “western” QWERTY keyboards”

Complaining that French cafes use French keyboards isn’t entirely fair… what other keyboard should they use? A US keyboard without any accents, yet alone their currency?

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