InfoWorld Monday has made the vast majority of its site content available in native format for the new generation of mobile devices, such as the Apple iPhone, Palm Treo Pro, and RIM BlackBerry Storm. Users of such "mobile 2.0" devices can access the InfoWorld technology news and reviews site at infoworld.com/m.
The beta mobile site's news, features, reviews, Test Center analyses, and blogs are all available. InfoWorld will add access to its special reports, slideshows, and other content later this month. In the meantime, such content remains accessible to mobile users but will display as regular desktop HTML pages.
(Which next-gen handheld is right for you? Find out in InfoWorld's mobile 2.0 device comparison.)
The mobilized beta site supports the new class of "mobile 2.0" devices meant to provide desktop-class Web browsing: the iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry Storm, Google-Android-based T-Mobile G1, and most Windows Mobile 6 devices such as the Hewlett-Packard iPaq, AT&T Fuze, and Palm Treo Pro. Many BlackBerrys come with HTML browser emulation, though not all are configured properly out of the box; much of the InfoWorld mobile site should work under these BlackBerrys' HTML emulation as well. Other mobile devices that support HTML, such as Palm OS devices with the Blazer 4 browser and devices where users have installed the Opera Mini Web browser should also work at least partially, such as displaying stories and supporting embedded hyperlinks. (Older, WAP- or WML-only devices can access a basic version of InfoWorld's site at http://mobile.infoworld.com.)
InfoWorld's new beta mobile site follows other mobile-enabling efforts this year, including a mobile version of its Windows Sentinel PC-monitoring service and its Twitter feed.
Note that because of the many differences in browser capabilities, some content may not display properly on specific device/browser combinations. Desktop HTML pages are particularly susceptible to such issues because they tend to use features such as Flash files that few mobile Web browsers support and iframes that Windows Mobile browsers do not support.










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