Comments on: Amazon mobile http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/12/16/amazon-mobile/ From an XML geek, a reader, a writer, a connector, a man of the people (says keep hope alive) Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alessandro Vernet http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/12/16/amazon-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-3083 Alessandro Vernet Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:17:38 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/12/16/amazon-mobile/#comment-3083 I am redirected to their "mobile-friendly" page when I go to www.amazon.com from my phone. From there I can then click on "PC Site - PDAs only" link to go to their standard web page. Upside: you don't even need to know that they have a mobile site. Downside: the way they detect if you are using a mobile device can't be perfect. The question is: what is their rate of false positives and false negatives? Alex I am redirected to their “mobile-friendly” page when I go to http://www.amazon.com from my phone. From there I can then click on “PC Site – PDAs only” link to go to their standard web page.

Upside: you don’t even need to know that they have a mobile site.

Downside: the way they detect if you are using a mobile device can’t be perfect. The question is: what is their rate of false positives and false negatives?

Alex

]]> By: Jeff http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/12/16/amazon-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-3081 Jeff Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:18:01 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/12/16/amazon-mobile/#comment-3081 When I first got my Treo I stumbled onto a couple of links to "PDA-friendly sites": http://www.otweb.com/pda.php http://www.lefflerlabs.com/PdaLinks.html When I first got my Treo I stumbled onto a couple of links to “PDA-friendly sites”:

http://www.otweb.com/pda.php
http://www.lefflerlabs.com/PdaLinks.html

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