Archive for August, 2007

Aug 01 2007

Starbucks gets the mobile Internet

Published by Eric under Nokia & Symbian, Web 2.0

Starbucks on the E61 browserWhat’s great about the Nokia E61 is the full web browser. What’s bad about the browser is that it takes time to render full sites or Javascript causes a crash.

This is easy to fix on the web host: just autodetect mobile browsers using the User Agent string. If the User Agent is a mobile device, send down the “lite” version of the site and provide a link to the full site for completeness.

I was surprised today when I browsed to Starbucks.com and instantly came to a store locator page. That’s very smart of them and all retail establishments should do this.

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