[vpFREE] Re: XVP - vpfree2.com mobile issues/feedback

Yes.. great discussion & very helpful.

A few quick comments (warning: somewhat technical)

1. I don't have access to a RAZR or an emulator for it, so I'm not able to directly test the site for that phone

2. It's impossible for us to support all mobile phones. There are many hundreds of phone-specific issues. There are companies that do this (that is, whose business is to handle all those phone-specific issues for people like us), but we can't afford to pay them!

3. New phones generally support either html browsing (via a built-in browser) or a downloaded one (like opera mini)-- and some now support javascript, so the main (non-mobile site) might even work fine for them. Old phones use "WAP" (or "WML") which, while it has it advantages, is being phased out in favor of real html. At the moment, our mobile site does NOT properly support older-style WAP phones... and I'd bet the RAZR John has is a WAP phone (*** does anyone know ?).

3. On launch we decided to support only "new" phones with browsers, such as iphones, windows mobile, blackberries, etc. It's on my list to roll out proper WAP support (for older phones)-- but even when the vpfree2 WAP service is available, its not clear it will work on any particular phone such as the RAZR (or a particular version of it). If there are folks out there with "old" WAP phones who desire mobile access, please send us a note (via the vpfree2 site). We'll need you to help test anything we develop.

Thanks...

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Cielaszyk <cacti-az@...> wrote:
>
> Good posting.
>
> I have a Dell AXIM X30 pocket pc and the text lines do wrap around. I'm
> using Windows mobile 2003 SE. There is an option for "one column"
> display which I have turned on.
>
> Are there display options available on your phone?
>
> Dennis
> vp-connoisseur
>
> >(I'm posting this on vpFREE so that others can see it and comment, which I thought would be better than a private message to the vpfree2 admin.)
> >
> >I first want to commend the vpfree2 folks for their work. Hopefully my feedback below can help you to make the experience for a mobile user even better.
> >
> >I went to vpfree2.com/mobile on my cellphone, which is a Motorola Razr. While I found it useful, there were some problems. These may or may not occur on other cellphones:
> >
> >1) Text doesn't wrap, so you can't see a lot of the information. For the casino or game info, much of the information is truncated (see below). This is the most serious problem, at least when using my phone. [Probably a stylesheet issue, since the HTML has almost no formatting information. Might also just be my phone :(]

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