You guys have voiced your concerns, and we heard ya:
the new Engadget didn't play very well with some mobile browsers (Pocket IE, we're looking at you...), so we figured now's as good a time as any to get a proper mobile version of the site rolled out. We've been promising it since forever, but now you can just point your WAP compatible mobile browser at
engadget.com and let the magic happen -- no need to fuss with those annoying mobile subdomains, or worse,
crappy .mobi TLDs. It works with most of phones and browsers we've tried it with around here at Engadget HQ, like:
- Pocket IE (Smartphone and Pocket PC)
- Blazer (Palm OS)
- BlackBerry handsets
That should be about 85% of you right there (or so we hope). Thus far we've seen problems with the Sidekick3, PSP, Opera Mini (Java), and some Motorola handsets that weren't so happy with our WAP site; for almost everything else that's WAP enabled, however, it should serve up the new mobile version just fine. We're still working to roll out new portions of the site to our mobile users (including mobile Engadget Mobile -- aw yeah!), so stay tuned for future features. Please leave us your feedback in the comments, and let us know if your phone isn't working right with mobile Engadget (just don't be surprised if we email you for to help us troubleshoot). Enjoy!
P.S. -If you want comments and the rest of the stuff on Engadget, or are still having issues in the mean time, we recommend using
IYHY (for now).
P.P.S. -As always, mad props to our tech team! Especially
Gavin for working on his damn birthday!
posted Sep 26th 2006 8:23AM
Confirmed working on the K700i.
Confirmed for the Moto Q.
Same here for the Siemens S65 (http://www.benq-siemens.com/cds/frontdoor/0,2241,hq_en_0_130780_0_sub%253A130312_cat%253A130352_filt%253Adeviceconnectivity4_view%253Aabout_spec%253A0_ab%253A0_clr%253A0_clrNum%253A1,00.html) built in browser (OpenWave 7), except that when reading an article the title caption is bright red and VERY VERY BIG, which is annoying.
It does seem to work fine in Opera Mini java client on this phone. But then again, the original site did that in Opera Mini and I still get to see that instead of minimalistic WAP formated version right now.
Yeah!!! Thank you! I can now resume reading engadget during class. I'm saved!
Awesome. I've been wondering when you guys were going to roll out a wap version. Good job, Team Engadget!
so what's the problem with opera mini? It doesn't label itself as a mobile browser, but the web site was just fine as of like a week ago on opera mini. Opera handles small screen rendering pretty well.
I'll go check it out now with the browsers on my phone.
Works on my dell x50v.
Thanks guys.
Awesome job - looks great with Blazer on my 700p
wow baby, really good work and it looks awesome on the BB 8700g. By the way, it took kinda long to pull the site up, anybody has the same problem?
when this is gonna be done with engadgetmobile? lol
Works a treat on K800i. Cheers guys.
Works on my good ole' SE T630.
Works on the Nokia browser on my Nokia 6682. The 6682 also comes with Opera, and that doesn't work; the site doesn't recognize it as a phone.
Works great on my treo 650!
Sha-weeeeet! Just browsed there on my 700wx. I must say, this will be one of my most visited mobile sites. Thanks!
What about the PSP what happens if you point the PSP web browser to Engadget will it see the mobile site, if not is there a sub domain you can point it to so that you can get to the mobile site on the PSP?
Works quite well on the P910a. Excellent!
works well with Blackberry 8700c
Just checked it out on my Katana. Seems to work excellently.
the new engadget doesn't look too nice on the nokia 770 either. The left column where all the content is is squooshed when you've got optimized viewing on. then again, i have my default font set a little larger than the default size.
Working like a champ on Blackberry 8100 Pearl. I was pretty shocked when I tried to fire up Engadget and you all didn't have a mobile version when I checked last week. Good timing!
Only suggestion would be if there was a way to make the headlines a little smaller, they seem huge on my 8100.
By the way, PS stands for Post-Script, and PSS stands for Post-Script-Script... that makes no sense. Should be PPS. Haha.
Ah this will help no end with my data costs when i'm checking out live keynote coverage on the train!
Thanks guys :-)
Thanks, this is a huge help. The pictures were great but took forever to load. This thing is quick and easy.
Works ok on my sidekick 3. Not perfect, but I can see all the articles, just missing the right column stuff.
since many months ago i have used my samsung d600 to surf engadget, and engadget mobile, and i never had troubles with it, neither with the new version of the site, even i write comments with opera mini!
Works perfect on my Vodafone v1605 (HTC TyTn) too, great work!
Unfortunately no such luck for the engadgetmobile and engadgethd sites, but one step at a time.
It would be nice though to have the option of choosing which website you use by having a different url for the mobile version (e.g. www.engadget.com/wap), so you can see the comments etc. if you want to without IYHY.
Works well with the T-mobile Vario II (HTC Hermes).
THANK YOU
Confirmed working on Nokia 6233.
Very nice - a lot better on my Blackberry than the previous version. One suggestion: at the bottom of the page you have a link to the full verison of the site. Why not put this at the very top of the page? That way I don't have to scroll all the way down to see the nice pics of photoshop-mockups of the iPhone.
Works pretty nicely. But I liked it better before (before the latest engadget.com refresh). The full site looked better on my phone. This new WAP version is too slow-data friendly. I want pictures, comments and colors, damnit! :(
Please spare engadgetmobile.com from this.
Works like a champ on my Verizon XV6700 ppc..
Darn posted too soon!
Photo's are not appearing on the secondary pages for me. Blackberry 7105t.
Isn't there a way to forge the detection, on, say, opera mini? I guess the problem is in identifying it? So, why not let me visit mobile.engadget or so, letting me indicate that i'd like the mobile version. Or is there another problem?
Opera Mobile never had a problem to begin with. Pocket IE just needs to be taken out back and shot.
Works great on my LG CU500. Even working off an edge network it loaded up quick. Good job guys.
Excellent folks. Looks great on my T-Mo MDA. Props EnG...
This is fantastic--works beautifully on my Q.
Doesn't work on my Nokia 9300i. is there a direct link address to the page?
Does not work on Nokia E61, browser is not recognized and renders full page.
Likewise for the E70's identical operating system. Renders in full.
1) I've been waiting for a version of engadget that doesn't look like crap on my pocketpc. This displays perfectly on mine.
2) Not to be a pain, but P.S. stands for Post Scriptum (after the main document); so, the second one would be P.P.S. or Post Post Scriptum (after the P.S.).
Works on my xv6600, however, I think i prefer the way google displays engadget on my mobile. http://google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com
Happy B-Day Gavin!
Thank you ;)
It's glorious. Runs great in Blazer!
This is clearly not geared with EVDO and HSDPA devices. My Treo 700p could chomp down the old version with ease, and graphics can always be turned off in the browser (but that's useful now when in an non-EVDO area).
I actually thought engadget was broken this morning when browsing through my phone. Anyway, my suggestion is to make an EVDO/HSDPA engadget that keeps the colors and photos, but loses the gazillion links on the right.
Another happy Treo 700p user... I was upset that the pictures werent on the main page... then I saw how they were wonderfully integrated into the sub-articles.... Lovely :D
Awesome, works great on OpenWave 6. Would be nice to get a sentence or two from the article after the headlines.
I like Google Mobile Optimizer (http://www.google.com/gwt/n) over IYHY. You can choose whether to include images or not.
It's about time - I love reading Engadget but it was always such a pain on my Treo 700w. Thanks for doing this...
I wish the main Engadget site looked as good as the new mobile one - I know you guys worked hard on it but it's a HUGE step backwards in design if you ask me. I go back to EngadgetMobile and think, "Ah, there's that great looking design..."
omg this is f---ing GREAT!!!!!
THANK YOU GAVIN and the rest of the tech team. Now I can brows engadget while I am directing public access tv shows. WOOT!
Works great on the Motorola Q!
Working great on my HTC Wizard. I'm so friggn excited, I've been waiting for this forever. My only wish is that it would display some sort of picture under the title (It makes me want to read a story that the title may not)
thanks guys,
i now can actually load engadget on my w810i and not bust my data costs through the ceiling (i get 10Mb a month for free, and the new engadget is pretty damn heavy)
The mobile version doesn't show up on my N80. It's the latest Nokia browser, so I would imagine the same would go for the other new N-Series and E-Series devices. The site renders fine, but at over at megabyte (those huge images add up!) it's a bit of a load.
Hey looks great on my 8700g. Very clean, great job.
Only issue is if im on a post thats not on page one and click full version to post a comment it bumps me back to page1. No big deal but when I navigate to the page the post is on the next page is in mobile mode again.
My SideKick3 only loads up the normal page but it's easy enough to read anyway. If the mobile version comes with no images, I'd much prefer that the SideKick never show the mobile page.
This is awesome. I randomly went on today in school and noticed a brand new format. Very awesome. Thanks.
by the way, I was using the SDA - which is a Windows phone, so no troubles whatsoever.
It's about time a gadget website had a mobile address. Works fine on my Sony Ericsson W600i.
..just tryed on my 6820 and works : great work guys
Does not work on my Nokia E61. I still get the full page which is a pain. The E61 does rss though which is the way I at least can skip though articles to see if anything is of special interest when away from my desktop.
yea i was wonderin about the PSP stuff 2. is there a url i can use 2 bring up the mobile site? cause engadget and my psp do not get along 2 well. you should make another post about that if you do add psp support.
Doesn't seem to work with my HTC Wizard/ Cingular 8125's default Pocket IE browser installed. Great idea though and thanks for all the hard work!
Weird, works on my HTC Wizard (T-Mobile MDA) with PocketIE.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
It's about TIME!
T_T
It is so beautiful on Pocket IE. Now I dont have to read it all through google news, hooray.
Ah, now it works. For some reason it wasn't working last night. Probably a cached page.
Well tried this on a Nokia E70 (Symbian Browser)
Site crashed the phone (Power reset)
On re-boot - "Phone Startup Failed - Contact Retailer"
Re-re-booted - same message
Complete power down, battery out, SD Card Out.
Re-boot - All OK
Dare I try it again ???
Hi,
i'm the Chief Web Opener at Opera Software. It sounds like you are having problems with Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. This is probably because both are full (x)html web browsers and no old style WAP browsers, unless you mean WAP 2, which really is XHTML. For these kind of browsers it would be best to use the regular engadget pages with handheld stylesheets and/or Media Queries.
Contact me on dstorey /@/ opera dot com and I'll help your team with getting this to work on our mobile products and devices such as the 770, Mylo, Archos 604, Nintendo DS and Wii.
Thanks,
David Storey
Chief Web Opener
Opera Software ASA
Oslo, Norway
Works great on my Dell Inspiron E1505.
Oh, wait...>.>;"
You, sir, win the internets.
Works great on my Samsung a920 up here!
Thanks Gavin!
Hey, really coool WAP site, I love it. I bookmarked it on my Nextel i870. It seemed to work perfectly, the few minutes I had to check it out.
Sorry, i prefer the full version on my treo 650. it took a long time to load the whole page, sure, but i could start reading articles right away -- then not have to load a page again until i got to the bottom. having to wait for a page load for each story is no where near as usable for me. So i'm browsing now with "?m=false" in the url, but that doesn't carry across links (to page 2, to further articles, etc). It seems to me you need a half-way version, or a set of different styles for html enabled browsers that can do more than just WAP. then comments could be enabled again!
Please?
cool
I have been visiting engadget using benq-siemens ef81 for a week
but today smth happened and the full page is loading.
can you give a direct link to the mobile version? thanks in advance.
I have a k790, somebody know how add the rss link to my phone???
Works awesome on the ATT Tilt (htc 8900).