Posted on 03/10/2010 5:19:29 PM PST by big bad easter bunny
I have been using my Blackberry a lot more these days to surf, unfortunately only ten articles for Freerepublic appear and there is no way to view more and most of the time the whole page shifts and the site is unusable, maybe a mobi site?
I’d love to see it too. Conservatism is going mobile!
I'm in the shower a lot.
Get an iPhone. Works great :-)
One could make a case for surfing FR on the throne too....I spend a lot of time there. Better yet a mobi site that could be surfed from the throne!!
Droid does too...love the web browser
i don’t care for Apple but thanks for the suggestion.
I use FreeRepublic mobile (iPod touch, Blackberry work, Motorola Droid personal line) and it is about the only forum that works perfectly on all three.
What kind of Blackberry are you using? I am on a Storm and it works fine. If you have a Storm, I would suggest downloading the Opera browser.
If you want, however, you can use FR on a .mobi site. There are some you can use the RSS feed to view articles.
Other than trouble with my eyes getting too old, I don’t have any problem getting to FR on my Blackberry. All you gotta do is scroll.
But then, just about every element on one's life can be done on a mobile phone here in Japan.
Still one problem might be than when some "yahoo!" decides to get on a thread on FR, and cuts and pastes a long, winding, multigraphic, multi link "spam" message going on for line after line after line. When mobile, after scrolling down for minutes (and sometimes giving up midstream,) to get to the next comment, one could well be an excellent candidate for Lasik surgery....
As a Blackberry user, let me offer this tip for successful FReeping.
While the Freerepublic.com site is open, press the blackberry button, then select COLUMN VIEW, then wait for the page to reload, then you will be very pleased with your FReeping on a Blackberry. You may wish to alter text size.
Enjoy!
tmi
FR on the iPhone works for me, too. Although it would be nice if some Freeper with an iPhone software development kit could create an iPhone app for it.
Working on it when I have time.... also working on an Android app. (all unofficial)
Try Opera Mini Beta
That lets you see a nicely almost anti-aliased view of the exact webpage content as envisioned by the developer (nowadays an artist-y person who spent a lot of time figuring out how to present information) but with your fingers lets you go in and out as necessary to make the content look nice on your smaller screen.
It is a brilliant way to help make content that wasn't designed for a 320x480 screen work acceptably on such a screen.
a few years ago I had a Palm Treo. I tried it here and it workded fine.unfortunately I lost it.
a few years ago I had a Palm Treo. I tried it here and it workded fine.unfortunately I lost it.
Someday, I'll maybe get the balls to approach somebody with a device better than my Jitterbug phone and axe a few questions - and maybe get a demo.....or punched in the mouth.
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