Engadget done right for your cellphone!

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!

[jasoncalacanis Posted Sep 26th 2006 2:04PM]

omg this is f---ing GREAT!!!!!

[givemeyourshoes Posted Sep 26th 2006 4:35PM]

THANK YOU GAVIN and the rest of the tech team. Now I can brows engadget while I am directing public access tv shows. WOOT!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 3:52PM]

Works great on the Motorola Q!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 3:27PM]

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)

[citizenlambda Posted Oct 1st 2006 7:45AM]

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)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 5:05PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 5:11PM]

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.

[tlvsnjunkie Posted Sep 26th 2006 5:28PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 5:34PM]

This is awesome. I randomly went on today in school and noticed a brand new format. Very awesome. Thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 5:35PM]

by the way, I was using the SDA - which is a Windows phone, so no troubles whatsoever.

[allison Posted Sep 26th 2006 6:50PM]

It's about time a gadget website had a mobile address. Works fine on my Sony Ericsson W600i.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 7:24PM]

..just tryed on my 6820 and works : great work guys

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 26th 2006 9:32PM]

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.

[SoCoolCurt Posted Sep 26th 2006 10:48PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 12:39AM]

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!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 3:40AM]

Weird, works on my HTC Wizard (T-Mobile MDA) with PocketIE.

[djguapo Posted Sep 27th 2006 3:28AM]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
It's about TIME!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 3:40AM]

T_T

It is so beautiful on Pocket IE. Now I don�t have to read it all through google news, hooray.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 11:36AM]

Ah, now it works. For some reason it wasn't working last night. Probably a cached page.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 12:59PM]

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 ???

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 1:10PM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2006 1:41PM]

Works great on my Dell Inspiron E1505.

Oh, wait...>.>;"

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2006 1:30AM]

You, sir, win the internets.

[Dahk Posted Sep 27th 2006 5:48PM]

Works great on my Samsung a920 up here!

Thanks Gavin!

[muddog15 Posted Oct 5th 2006 6:29PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2006 4:17PM]

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?

[IseWise Posted Oct 10th 2006 3:11PM]

cool

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2007 1:48PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 25th 2007 2:22PM]

I have a k790, somebody know how add the rss link to my phone???

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 1st 2008 10:26PM]

Works awesome on the ATT Tilt (htc 8900).