Reuters Mobile, Smartphones are Not Supported

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://today.reuters.com/rss/mobile.aspx' target='_blank'>http://today.reuters.com/rss/mobile.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Get the news you want when you want it, with Reuters Mobile. With Reuters you can get direct access to the latest top news including business, sports, entertainment and more on your mobile device. Get the latest news coverage from Reuters. The top 10 news stories, accompanied with full color photos, are continuously updated so you can keep up-to-date on the news making headlines. To get this FREE* service, simply type mobile.reuters.com into the Internet browser on your mobile device."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-May2005-ReutersMobile.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />You can tell that Windows Mobile devices like Smartphones have not made a big sales impact in the cell phone world, when organizations like Reuters launch mobile news service and do not support the Windows Mobile platform. :evil: The thing that surprised me even more was that when I browsed to the <a href="http://mobile.reuters.com">mobile.reuters.com</a> site on my Smartphone, I got the sorry <i>your device is currently not supported</i> message. How hard is it to design a website with mobile friendly web pages. 8O Thanks to the decent browsers like pIE and Opera on our Smartphones, we can surf the main <a href="http://reuters.com">Reuters.com</a> website. Do you know of news sites that have mobile friendly web pages? Which is your favorite one?

[Stinger]

Even better, they show the Treo 600 displaying the website but it isn't on the list of compatible devices!

I've just tried it on my P910i and it works fine. There doesn't seem to be any technical reason why it shouldn't function on PIE.

[gai-jin]

I've had several websites that recognize PIE as being IE, and thus send the desktop version of the web page. Reuters seems to be doing the same thing, but the desktop version of the page for mobile.reuters.com is an error that the handset is not supported...

[jfreiman]

In use several news sites which look excellent on my Smartphone (SMT5600).

MSNBC News: msnbc.msn.com
cNet News: news.com.com
The Inquirer: www.theinquirer.net (awsome site and formatted it for 'me' when I asked them about it's screen format! ;) )

[Kris Kumar]

There doesn't seem to be any technical reason why it shouldn't function on PIE.

I also was thinking the same thing. Why do they need special software, they are not pushing down news feeds or anything. :?