71 Ways to Make the Mobile Web Work For You
January 24th, 2008 MobileFreak
In case you have not checked lately, there are a host of mobile sites and services that are making everyday life easier for thousands of people just like us. To highlight just a sample, I compiled the following list of 71 things you can do from your mobile phone.
I wanted to make this interactive, so I temporarily left the links off of a few items. Why? So that we can learn from you and everyone else out there. If you have recommendations for what mobile sites or tools to use to accomplish any of the items below, leave a comment to this post and share your knowledge. After February 9, ten of the highest quality commenters will be sent a free MobileMammoth t-shirt, AND I will add the links to the remaining items in the list.
Happy mobile browsing…
71 Ways to Make the Mobile Web Work For You
- Use text messaging to solve a crime
- Confirm flight departure time en route to airport (mobile site)
- Play Brady Bunch Kung Fu!. (Sprint users only)
- Browse Flickr photos (mobile site)
- Call your spouse from your bank to confer on a new account (wait - you can’t do that at First National Bank in Chicago).
- Get a text alert when your Google stock reaches
$500$600 a share - Get an alert if your kid wanders off-campus
- Transfer money between your bank accounts
- Play music stored on your PC
- Listen to “The One Minute Manager” on audio book
- Prevent drunk driving (and drunk phone calls too)
- Get Radiated? (We hope not!)
- Use your phone as a modem for your laptop (great when you’re stuck in a hotel)
- Check the weather (mobile site)
- Cheat at chess (wait — don’t do that!)
- Go moblogging
- Get more done
- Watch a BoSox-Yankees game
- Play a Texas Hold ‘em tournament
- Pay your parking meter
- Watch a new music video
- Upload pictures & video to the Web in seconds
- Take Spanish lessons
- Over your messaging limits on your wireless plan? Send text messages, for free
- Better yet, send a comic message!
- Send map and directions directly to your cell phone
- Make your own mobile website
- Check your email
- Check your favorite blogs via Bloglines or Google Reader (both are mobile sites)
- Send a text message to your sister in Tokyo
- Send a video message to your spouse
- Play Madden NFL 08 on your cell phone
- Instant-Message your Mom on Mother’s Day
- Avoid the 5 car pile-up on your way home (best traffic site anyone?)
- Track your UPS package
- Check the TV listings
- Receive SPIN magazine on your mobile phone
- Locate your buddy
- Do a Yahoo image search
- Watch last night’s episode of Lost
- Listen to your favorite podcast
- Research a client on your way to a meeting
- Listen to NPR live (mSpot Radio)
- Watch highlights from the Olympics
- Do a Google search for your favorite mobile websites
- Watch a BareNakedLadies concert
- Listen to your local radio station
- Backup your Motorola phone directory
- Watch your favorite movie
- Phone stolen? Next time, Lock it
- Find a wifi hotspot
- Laptop crashed during a presentation? Run a slidehow from your mobile phone.
- Get injury alerts and win your fantasy league
- Find out your favorite PGA player’s tee time on your way to the Masters
- Try your hand at the NYTimes crossword puzzle
- Get NHL scoring updates by text message
- Get stock quotes on demand
- Get live score updates by selecting a sport here, then putting that RSS URL into FEED2MOBILE
- Update your fantasy line-up while shopping with your girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse
- Get tonight’s TV lineup
- Get your Maxim mobile fix (flash required)
- Get your soap opera fix
- Play ESPN Poker
- Play a scenario game
- Get your CEOExpress to go
- Make your own wallpaper for your mobile phone
- Text message your questions at 30,000 feet
- Get alerted when your child’s school closes early for snow (or any other reason)
- View a Google Map
- Access your GMail account
- Call your mom (Remember voice calls?!)
I hope you are able to find at least a few gems here that make your life a little easier. I worked on this list for a while, so hopefully all the links are still active!
As always, get your daily mobile website right here.
Entry Filed under: Business, Contests, Google, Music, SMS, Sports, The List, Video
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Another to add to your list…
You can purchase cool merchandise like iPods, video games, perfume, etc. at significantly discounted prices through an online service called GoLo. The GoLo game features products throughouth the day and they drop the price of the featured product every few seconds until the item either sells outor its retail tag reaches zero. Visitors can purchase the product and even guess what the lowest price will be –if they guess correctly they’ll win the product for free.
The GoLo mobile site is locate at http://www.mporia.mobi –it’s a mobile shopping portal with 100’s of retailers.
There are many regional traffic sites but the most complete seem to be:
Traffic Mobile (http://mobi.traffic.com/traffic/)
Hivegot.com Traffic (http://hivegot.com/traffic/)
Great adds Andrew!
Use your mobile phone to post to blogs.
Business traveling parents know how hard it is to dependably use their mobiles to call home. Delayed flights, poor signals, and time zones, all make connecting via voice difficult. That’s a big problem when the last promise out the door was to call home. Nothing drives more guilt than breaking that promise to a 4 year old wondering why mom or dad isn’t home.
Mobile blogging solves that problem. Create, send and post from your mobile and stay connected to the family while on the road.
Smart phone helps make a smart move.
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I think the coolest one is number 49. How awesome is that, to watch movies on your phone. We are way into the future guys. Great list!!!!!
I’ve started using http://enotifyme.com a premium email to phone service provider. iPhone or home page and urgent messages are sent to me and I don’t have to scan through email all the time…