Wikipedia for Mobile Devices

[Darius Wey]

http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki

"Users of Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Java-enabled mobile phones running web browsers can now access a lightweight version of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia. New Zealand-based company Instinct has created a mobile version of Wikipedia for mobile devices, currently available as a beta website. With over 1,025,291 entries it's got pretty much everything users could want to know about, from mercantilism to New Zealand history to Fraggle Rock."



I'm trying to recall how many mobile Wikipedia ports there are, but truth is, I've lost count. Regardless, here's another one to add to your bookmarks.

[Darius Wey]

http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki

"Users of Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Java-enabled mobile phones running web browsers can now access a lightweight version of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia. New Zealand-based company Instinct has created a mobile version of Wikipedia for mobile devices, currently available as a beta website. With over 1,025,291 entries it's got pretty much everything users could want to know about, from mercantilism to New Zealand history to Fraggle Rock."



I'm trying to recall how many mobile Wikipedia ports there are, but truth is, I've lost count. Regardless, here's another one to add to your bookmarks.

[Mark Johnson]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

I'm trying to recall how many mobile Wikipedia ports there are, but truth is, I've lost count.

Gee, you'd think there would be a wikipedia article that answers that...
:wink:

[Gerard]

Well now, this is a handy resource. I've oft been frustrated by the way Wikipedia appears in Pocket IE, with
one
word
per
line
for
most
pages...

I'll be subbing this link for my old one on my local home page.

[ramjet73]

Originally Posted by Mark Johnson

Gee, you'd think there would be a wikipedia article that answers that...
:wink:

There is one that sort of does that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

That's a good example of recursion.

ramjet73

[AndyH]

My favorite is the Wikipedia with TomeRaider3. You don't need an internet conection so it's with you all the time. A minor negative is that you need a large storage card since the file with pictures is about 900mb. The other downside is that it is not quite as extensive as the on line version but it has only let me down a couple times.

andy

[onepieceman]

How do you find the speed with TomeRaider? I have it installed, but it is almost unusably slow. OK if you are desperate to know something and are prepared to wait 30secs, but no good for casual browsing.
Maybe it's my card (I have a 4GB SD Card), or maybe its WM5, or maybe that's just the speed I should expect, hence my interest...

[Gerard]

I've seen Andy's Wikipedia/Tomeraider in action, tried it a bit on his older iPAQ, and there was no delay at all. Links work as page turning an average novel in ubook, which is really impressive. I'd guess WM5 was the culprit, as it's reportedly slow in a lot of uses.

[onepieceman]

That's very interesting. I'll try my SD card in my old XDA2 to see whether it's an OS issue. If that's also slow, I guess I'll put it down to my card. It's lovely and big, but I'm not convinced about its throughput rate.

[dma1965]

Originally Posted by onepieceman

How do you find the speed with TomeRaider? I have it installed, but it is almost unusably slow. OK if you are desperate to know something and are prepared to wait 30secs, but no good for casual browsing.
Maybe it's my card (I have a 4GB SD Card), or maybe its WM5, or maybe that's just the speed I should expect, hence my interest...

I had this problem and found that fragmentation was the culprit. Use a card reader to copy the contents to your desktop, format the card, and copy it all back.

[AndyH]

I have found very little difference in speed with TomeRaider3 running WM5 on my Aximx51v.

Andy