Just "discovered" mobile web..application reccomendations?

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Just inhereted my step dad's old phone, a Samsung G800, and I decided to have a little flick with the browser. I'm pretty impressed! I got Opera Mini up and running and being able to browse sites normally on a phone screen is just great!

Ordered a web bolt on from o2 so I have a nice bit of usage for a non-idiotic price, and am just waiting for the thing to activate!

In the mean time....anyone got any good aps I should check out?

Obviously getting gmail, but other than that I'm clueless. Will have to be Java apps as it's not S60/WinMo.
 
Browsing is really quite usable in Opera Mini on the G800. Decent res screen and easy to navigate.
 
I'm not arguing that Opera mini is amazing, but building integrated and clever applications on the back on java for "featurephones"/dumbphones isn't easy at all. Hence the market is pretty empty. If you want to use connected applications that are developed for the web again like nokia sports tracker, or GPS with traffic updates etc... is in connected mobile web apps, then you need to look at real phones, otherwise known as smartphones. You're pretty much stuck with opera mini and mobile websites otherwise.
 
LeperousDust said:
I'm not arguing that Opera mini is amazing, but building integrated and clever applications on the back on java for "featurephones"/dumbphones isn't easy at all. Hence the market is pretty empty. If you want to use connected applications that are developed for the web again like nokia sports tracker, or GPS with traffic updates etc... is in connected mobile web apps, then you need to look at real phones, otherwise known as smartphones. You're pretty much stuck with opera mini and mobile websites otherwise.
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Also Opera Mini isn't a proper web browser as such. When you request a web page, the request is passed to Opera's own server, which downloads the page, then compresses/optimises the page page for mobile viewing, then sends it to the Opera Mini browser. This means that sites with even simple Java functionality rarely work, it gets broken.
 
Google Maps
Google Mail
eBuddy
Opera Mini

Opera Mini is fine for basic viewing and is much much faster than the built in browser on my C905. Ebuddy lets you talk to your msn, aol, yahoo, facebook and gtalk contacts. The two google apps are the dogs nuts. Google maps and mail are both really well thought out application and are really handy.
 
Just grabbed maps, already had mail.

Maps is really going to save my ass sometime.... I know I'll get lost and need to find my way one day!
 
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